LUCY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TMO82]

I have a beautiful 14 month old siberian husky that i love to death.I can put up with joggers being destroyed soccer boots eaten,missing socks and even her biting the missus when she gets too close to me. However one thing i wont tolerate is her digging up my lawn.

She has heaps of toys and gets plenty of attention so i don't think that she is bored,please help me people how do i stop her.

[aardvark]

how do i stop her.

Shoot it.

[HemiDuty]

PMSL!!!

Mate ya gotta be tough with dogs, 6 months of intensive training as a pup and not letting my dog get away with anything has given me a dog I have had little trouble with in nearly ten years. Consistent and reasonable punishment for bad behaviour and appropriate reward for good is a decent system IMHO. Works for kids too!!! Mine haven't chewed on my shoes in ages!

[Felix]

Excercise morning and afternoon, 20-30 minutes of fetch should help. It also needs to learn it's place - if it gets too close to you, it will think it's your equal - they do need to learn to know their place.

I would never EVER tolerate my dog biting anyone else in the family. That shows that your dog thinks it is higher up in the pecking order than it should be. Get that sorted quick smart.

Our dog was getting a bit over bearing, but we just started getting a bit tough with her - speaking in gruff tones when she started acting up, just giving her a gentle shake to get her focus back. Has worked quite well. She was never badly behaved as such, but she did tend to being a bit over bearing.

Oh, and she likes her cowhide bones - one a day, every day for the last 2 years. We give it to her at around 7pm and she amuses herself with it for an hour or so, then goes to sleep.

Don't spoil them too much, never let them sleep on your bed - always on the floor or outside, and they always must eat separately to you, preferably after you've eaten or be fed several hours before - no scraps from the table!

[Neka79]

I have a beautiful 14 month old siberian husky that i love to death.I can put up with joggers being destroyed soccer boots eaten,missing socks and even her biting the missus when she gets too close to me. However one thing i wont tolerate is her digging up my lawn.

She has heaps of toys and gets plenty of attention so i don't think that she is bored,please help me people how do i stop her.

take all her teeth out, and de-claw her...

thatll fix the bitch!!

sorry im no Dr Harry...

kick it in the guts..that works a treat too...

hold up..no..it doesnt..jamies dog destroyed half my bloody belongings...

move out!! leave the dog there....worked for me...

[chameleon]

how do i stop her.

Shoot it.

That's a bit uncalled for dont you think , I mean it's ony a dog, simply choke it to death with some electrical cord.

[TMO82]

I might just help her dig , you know what they say if you can't beat them join them.

[chameleon]

Don't give up.


Poison perhaps??

[Barrabob]

A simple one is spray it with a waterbottle in the face it works good on things like inappropriate barking.

Now i know the animal lovers and do gooders gonna hate this but when i have had dogs i put them on the chain very early in the piece get a bessa block and dig a whole and attach the chain and bury the block put the water bowl where it can get to it and if its making a ruckus it gets a wet head via a bucket of water.

Cant dig holes other than where it is but do go down and play with it once it has learnt to shut up and who is the boss and where the food comes from.

Never needed a lead to takemy last dog for a walk he would just trot along beside me and sit when i stopped or run off if i told him and come back when i called him.

Used to leave him at home when i went to the pub and once i was 200 meters out of the place he would mysteriouslly appear and also seemed to have a ability to sniff out the whereabouts of my pushbike over a small island.

erm might need a bit of time in lockup and if it bites your misus or kids give it a bit of newspaper treatment they are pack animals, cause if it has a go at anyone else coppers might want to shoot it.

Dont know about seperate feeding i have done plenty of quality time with the dog and a hamburger but have to teach it a bit of respect first.

I moved onto fish these days they need less time.

[Lainie]

I'm with Felix on this one, if your dog is biting family members that would be my very first concern. Being that it's still only a pup and will be around for a long time. When and if you decided to have kids the dog has already seen that it is OK to bite someone that gets close to you. Let your dog see you and your parnter eating and yes feed her after you have she does need to learn pecking order and whos the boss.
For the digging I found the net a very helpful place, just do a Google search " How to stop your dog digging"
Good Luck

[red_dave]

What about Astroturf?

[aardvark]

I've got a mate who has a dog that bit his son when the son was little. He bit the shit out of the dog and the dog never bit the kid again.

In fact, if the kid and the dog are playing and the dog starts to get a bit boisterous, the kid just starts whimpering and the dog lies down.

[mrmina]

how do i stop her.

Shoot it.

r u sure ur not trying out for the police squad in vic

[TMO82]

she doesnt so much bite the missus but she gets very jeolous and lets her know it.This is not a big nasty dog it got beat up by a cat about two months ago.


Funniest thing i ever seen, lucy just wanted to play.

[Plaz]

Dig up the top 10 inches of your entire lawn, then cover the whole area with chicken wire. Lay the lawn back over the top execpt for a tiny corner nearest the house. Now in the corner that the chicken wire is exposed, connect it to 240 volts. There you have it.....at worst your dog will only ever dig one more time. Then all you do is spray air freshener (gets rid of the burnt dog smell) and pay your huge power bill

**NB..remember to disconnect the wier before the misuss does any planting....that is unless.......