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Jukes Mum

  • Joined Apr 2014
  • North Yorkshire
Punishment for chewing
« on: July 28, 2016, 08:31:59 am »
Its been a couple of years since we had a puppy in the house. Our gundogs are kennelled, but only at night. During the day I have been bring the pup in for a couple of hours to make sure he is familiar with normal household goings ons. He was bumbling round the kitchen last night and I was reminded of something I read once- not sure where. It went along the lines of:
"How to punish for puppy chewing.
Keep a rolled-up newspaper handy at all times.
If you see the puppy chewing something it shouldn't, take the rolled up newspaper and bash yourself over the head repeating "I must not leave things out the puppy shouldn't chew"!!!!"
Made me smile anyway  :D
Don’t Monkey With Another Monkey’s Monkey

doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
  • Qui? Moi?
    • ABERDON GUNDOGS for work and show
    • Facebook
Re: Punishment for chewing
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2016, 10:23:57 am »
I was just about to berate you for punishing a dog  :roflanim:
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Punishment for chewing
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2016, 10:38:31 am »
I was just about to berate you for punishing a dog  :roflanim:

Ditto.   :roflanim:
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Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

cuckoo

  • Joined Jan 2011
Re: Punishment for chewing
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2016, 11:01:51 am »
That piece of advice was given to me by the breeder of the first dog I bought myself!

YorkshireLass

  • Joined Mar 2010
  • Just when I thought I'd settled down...!
Re: Punishment for chewing
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2016, 02:18:47 pm »
I was just about to berate you for punishing a dog  :roflanim:

Ditto.   :roflanim:

And me!

Jukes Mum

  • Joined Apr 2014
  • North Yorkshire
Re: Punishment for chewing
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2016, 02:51:50 pm »
Blimey guys, do I come across as a brutal puppy beater??  :roflanim:
Don’t Monkey With Another Monkey’s Monkey

doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
  • Qui? Moi?
    • ABERDON GUNDOGS for work and show
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Re: Punishment for chewing
« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2016, 02:59:33 pm »
No, of course not, but there are still a lot of people about who think that punishment is what is needed when a  puppy is naughty!  My goodness, if I'd been that way inclined my wee Missy would have been beaten to a pulp by now.  :innocent:
It was the heading of your post that gave me my instant reaction - till I saw who it was from  :eyelashes:
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

Buttermilk

  • Joined Jul 2014
Re: Punishment for chewing
« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2016, 05:11:31 pm »
Great advice but I find a mirror and a water pistol to be rather effective at times.

 

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