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Cocker Specific Discussion => Puppies => Topic started by: Bronteland on March 05, 2013, 09:26:02 PM
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Hi all,my puppy is 12 weeks old , when he is in the garden during his house training, he is obsessed with eating gravely bits out of the soil, he's forever crunching !, always having to fish tiny stones out of his mouth, if I can
manage to distrct him he'll get on with his toilet , but a bi worried bout this, his poo is gravelly !!
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William was the same when he was very young and I had to put some temporary fencing in the garden to keep him off areas where he could pick up stones and gravel. I bought some cheap plastic clematis netting to fence off the areas and that was enough to keep him off. Luckily, once I stopped him from doing it either the novelty wore off, or he just outgrew it, and it didn't become a habit.
Please be careful as swallowing stones can be dangerous for dogs if the stones don't all pass through safely, so I suggest you find a way of keeping him off the gravel.
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Fudge was the same - little monster used to hide them in his mouth but you could tell he had one in his gob because you could see his bottom teeth :005:
Kept telling him to leave them and he grew out of it - he has now turned his attention to the different types of slurry on the farm tracks :020:
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If you are fishing around in his mouth a lot, he might get sensitive to it and swallow the stones quicker to stop you getting them. You don't want him to stop trusting you.
Maybe try swapping for something tasty instead? :) And also as Elaine said, you'd be best to stop him getting to the gravel if you can. They are little monkeys aren't they!
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We are mid way through completely flagging the area so won 't be a problem for long. Thanks or all your comments
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Mack does the same!