Desperately seeking chew deterrents. Anything will be worth a try at the moment as barley being muzzled is not a good solution and he is causing more harm trying to get it of. It needs to be safe to put on/near broken skin and taste revolting so he is not tempted to lick it.
Re: Chew deterrents Annabelle, is this when you're with him at home? Apart from all the good advice you're about to receive on training and the articles on the main website - specifically answering your question on a deterrent. Grannicks Bitter Apple Spray - odourless to us, tastes awful for dogs. I'll preface what I'm going to say - training is the best answer, giving them something else to chew etc etc - this is a 'when your back is turned' solution. This really is the bit that I suspect everyone is going to hate; to get the best results - put a little on kitchen roll and hold that over his nose (I can feel the OMG comments coming as I write this) for a few seconds. He won't like it. But you're only going to do it once. It won't do him any harm but it'll put him off the smell of it. Use that piece of kitchen roll to wipe the surfaces he is chewing. Then when he's not in the room, spray the same surfaces straight from the bottle. It works, we can leave the pup who (hasn't been traumatised for life) and he leaves table legs, TV remotes etc alone. We refreshed the spray every few days for a couple of weeks - then stopped, no chewing.
Re: Chew deterrents Gordon, Barley has got an allergy that is making him very itchy hence the nibbling of his own feet. Annabelle, if it is so severe that he is breaking the skin I would take him to the vets. He might need a steroid injection possibly, just to calm things down and break the cycle.
Re: Chew deterrents [quote author=heidrun link=topic=6438.msg85534#msg85534 date=1401980372] Gordon, Barley has got an allergy that is making him very itchy hence the nibbling of his own feet. Annabelle, if it is so severe that he is breaking the skin I would take him to the vets. He might need a steroid injection possibly, just to calm things down and break the cycle. [/quote] he is much more settled this afternoon, but most f the damaged happend overnight when he could not be supervised to intervene the chewing. We have steroid gel that gets applied to the sore areas to soothe them and make them heal faster, this has been supplied by out vet and every time we go for the same problem that is all we get given as it is just the occasional flare up, once he has started itching its hard to get him to stop even if it is not itchy from allergies anymore.
Re: Chew deterrents [quote author=heidrun link=topic=6438.msg85534#msg85534 date=1401980372] Gordon, Barley has got an allergy that is making him very itchy hence the nibbling of his own feet. Annabelle, if it is so severe that he is breaking the skin I would take him to the vets. He might need a steroid injection possibly, just to calm things down and break the cycle. [/quote] That explains a lot - definitely not Bitter Apple Spray then - completely the wrong advice, I thought you meant he was chewing furniture or something. oops!, sorry, Annabelle. Definitely a vet trip. Is it a lick granuloma? just asking as we had that problem with our last old boy.
Re: Chew deterrents When Ziggy's allergy flared up badly he was given an injection by my vet which stopped the scratching and biting dead.
Re: Chew deterrents Try Thornit powder to calm the feet and a cone to break the cycle - poor boy, hope it improves soon
