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help my puppy is pulling up my lychnis coronaria

mazzyleemazzylee Posts: 3
edited June 2019 in The potting shed
Can anyone teel me why my 6 month old pup is pulling up my lychnis when she laeves all other plants alone. She doesn't est it just rips it out and throws it round the garden. Also any ideas how to stop this. Have tried fencing it off but she has now pulled the wire fencing up
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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Dog training classes?


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • mazzyleemazzylee Posts: 3
    she doesn't touch anything else so don't think that will help
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Maybe it is because it is soft in the mouth. Try a teddy bear.
  • AchtungAchtung Posts: 159
    marion.lee17 said:
    she doesn't touch anything else so don't think that will help
    Well it really will Marion. You need to get control early. We had a similar problem and training classes (for us and our pet) solved all our problems. Also, if you have a lawn and a bitch that play together. Beware! 
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    How old what type? when you see her, give her something else, an alternative, to play with.  My border collie used to keep digging especially if I had just planted something.  She occasionally digs, hubby laid some new turf the other day, she dug some up, so we covered it with a frame of wood and chicken wire.  make sure she is played with, lots of stimulation and excersies I love those plants.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    You could sprinkle a little chilli powder on it. That being said, ny daughter developed a taste for the anti thumb sucking stuff.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LucidLucid Posts: 387
    Try to work on a good 'leave it' command with her. Give lots of treats and praise when she drops the item and leaves it alone, and after what can take a lot of time and patience she should start to improve and learn not to get hold of it. She is still very young though so is just being a puppy really. 

    We adopted a 5.5 month old rescue puppy from Portugal who had been a short time stray and then lived in a shelter. We were very lucky in that he settled straight into life in a home and has never damaged or destroyed anything in the house, even when left alone. But for the first few months he was very bad at getting hold of things and running out to the garden with them, wanting you to chase him as a game, and it would take ages to get the item back. He also chewed through the trunks of 2 complete honeysuckle plants, and part of another as he liked to get the support canes out of the ground. He attempted to pull out a small buddlejah from the ground too, and would chew off branches from our dogwood and a large buddlejah. He's now just over 1 (14 months) and over the last few months he really has improved on all of that. His leave it command is almost there, and he generally drops anything he shouldn't have straight away - he does still try to pick things up in the first place but it's not literally anything he can find now. We've been working on new flowerbeds in the garden over the last few days and so far he's not tried to chew any of the plants. The real test will be when we plant some new climbers! 

    it can take a very long time to train them out of bad habits but once they get it as long as you still praise them and give them spontaneous rewards in future, they should always stick to it. 

    Lucid :)
  • ElizaRoseElizaRose Posts: 121
    No pic of your cute pup?
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Oh, yes, we do need a pic
  • mazzyleemazzylee Posts: 3
    edited July 2019
    Thank you for your suggestions but am please to report I have solved it. I made up a garlic wash supposed to deter slugs and sprayed the foliage. She pulled one piece and dropped it straightaway  :)Only downside is I have to respray after watering or rain but it works 
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