Are you Invisible?

[RCT]

just curious.

And AnnW I know you are....

[PamE]

I am convinced that I drive the Stealth Grand Caravan, the military's new experimental transportation mode. :0/ I am virtually invisible to ALL of the crappy drivers on the road!

[KarlaB]

Yes, I am. :)

[RCT]

LOL, I feel like I am around this house...kids and dog don't listen to me and the dh never hears me...LOL...

[PamE]

I figured you were talking invisible, board wise, but thought I'd add my .02 anyway. I know what you mean about no one listening. It used to be my dog listened better than my kids. Well we have a new pup now (toddler) and man is she ever a handful! Now, no one listens, lol! *Ü*

[RCT]

when do the puppies stop Chewing the people....LOL...our Max is only 2 1/2 months old and I got a good size bite yesterday on my hand....he is getting better, but good use so insight on how long they chew bite people....LOL...been years since we had a puppy

[PamE]

No, really, lol, Bella, our German Shep is about 14 months old and still gnaws on just about everything, me included. Such a puppy still! Shepherds take about three good years to mature, so at this point I consider her in the toddler stages. Ooooh, skippy! Gosh at 2 1/2 months they still have their needle sharp milk teeth. OW! Our mantra here is "No bite, no bite, no bite, DOWN Bella! :0D I can't imagine life without a dog though! She brings so much joy and LAUGHTER to my life. Goofball cracks me up.

[KathyT]

By no means an expert here, but we have had both a golden and now we have a choc lab (3yrs old next week). He was a TERRIBLE chewer, didn't leave the kitchen for the first year and a half of his life, lol!!! The breeder showed us how to immediately grab his snout with both hands, clamp it shut, and yell NO! very firmly and give his snout a good shake. Then walk away. You have to do it immediately though. That really curbed the nipping at us, but not the chewing on everything else unfortunately.

There is a great book called "Good Owners Great Dogs" or something like that, lol, by Brian Kilcommons. Has a lot of great suggestions.

Our pup at 4 months was able to leap up onto the kitchen counters, I even caught him gnawing on the sink tap one day!! Anyway, this book recommends shake cans, which are empty pop cans with 15 pennies in them taped shut. You shake the can as soon as the pup does something you don't want him to, and it both startles and distracts them. You try to keep the can hidden so he doesn't know that it is you making the noise.

Sorry to ramble, but ours was such a stressful pup that I feel for anyone in that position. He is now an incredibly wonderful dog, and very well behaved, people comment on it all the time.

If you have a chance, try to look into that book.

[angie r]

How did this invisible thread turn to dog's chewing issues!! :p

I am visable. LOL

[RCT]

Yeah, I am glad the puppy isn't invisible....that would hurt.....I am now invisible too...