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Mary:
Lottie loves the garden but is constantly after everything she shouldn't.  She tries bringing in and eating all the plastic plant labels (I won't have a clue what's coming up in the Spring ;D) , pulling at and eating alot of the plants and basically doing all the things she shouldn't!  It's impossible to restrict her so I almost let her go where she wants really as she enjoys it so much and hope she will learn in time to stick to the grass?!! ???
Studied the plant list on an old thread re. poisonous ones so OK in that respect.
My main worry is the amount of stones she plays with ::).  I'm frightened she'll swallow one but she can't go out there without picking one up.  How can I discourage her? :-                    

Mike:
I spent a fortune and lots of time and effort on my garden, and it looked great - and then I got the pup. She ate half of what I'd planted, including my precious grapevine  :( She also nicked the apples and pears of my budding trees, and trampled and sat on (and so killing) all the border shrubs  :'( I planted some fruit and vegetables, and she ate the cobs of sweetcorn, the potatoes, decimated the strawberries and raspberries... hmm, no wonder she wasn't into Pedigree puppy food  :o

Even though I was always supervising her in the garden, and clapping my hands loudly (I'm sure the neighbours thought I was just a very strange young man) every time she ventured somewhere she wasnt supposed to go, I'd look away for one split second and she'd dig a hole. I'm afraid it's just what puppies do!  >:(

I'd say the way forward is never leaving Lottie unsupervised in the garden, always stop her if she goes in the wrong area, or chews something she's not supposed to... and accept that your garden may not be quite how you want it until the little beastie has grown a bit older and realises the things she shouldnt do. Fortunately, by summer, if you persevere with 'garden training' her now, I think she'll be past a lot of the 'destructive' behaviour, and you can enjoy your garden again ;D                    

Gilly:

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Young ;) ;D

I think our puppies are running a conspiracy against us Mary ;D 'Cos Buttons is doing all the same things as Lottie. She even managed to bring in a piece of mouldy bread  ::) obviously meant for the birds....muts have got thrown over from next door...she wasn't happy when I had to remove it from her ever so soft JAWS :o
I've got loads of red chip stones in my garden...definitely not ideal with a young puppy....by spring I'll have not left as everytime she picks one up I remove it and chuck it in the bin ;D The dustbin men must break they're back when they lift my bin everyweek ;D
I clap my hands very loudly too Mike, when she goes near something she's not supposed to...that's why I can hardly type today my hands are red raw ;D ;)
It's reassuring to know that our pups are "normal" isn't it Mary ;D                    

Mary:
Trouble is she thinks its a game when I clap my hands and if I try to get hold of her she is either too fast or runs 'laps' ;D
In one way we are lucky its Winter Gilly as most of the perenials have died back and its fairly uninteresting out there (well, for us!).  But then again you know that cold snap I was longing for Mike, its on its way and I think I might regret wanting it.  Running round the garden in my dressing gown at 11pm in the freezing cold is not too appealing >:(
Any suggestions on the stones? ???                    

*Jay*:
Hi mary, I had the same problem with Vegas when he was younger. Every time we went out in the garden he went for the stones. Because of my work, I tend to have laparotomies on the brain so wherever puppy went, I went and as soon as he picked up a stone, I would remove it from his mouth while telling him to leave. Obviously, if I saw one before his beady eyes goyt to it, I would pick it up and throw it away. It took a few weeks but eventually he just stopped. He won't even look at them now - now it's discarded chewing gum, fag ends, anything plastic./paper/cardboard, bird poo and the list goes on ::)                    

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