my dog pees on our christmas tree! please help! i've tried putting dog food underneath it, but he just peed on that too. i'm tired of cleaning up pee and not being able to put the presents underneath it! HELP!
2006-12-10 15:15:16 · 14 answers · asked by Sarah Lynn 2 in Pets ➔ Dogs
just put all the presents under it.....he won't be able to get to the tree and he won't feel comfortable urinating.
i'll assume that you live in an apartment on an upper floor and that you can't simply open the door and let him pee when he's dancing.
2006-12-10 15:28:45 · answer #1 · answered by mikesheppard 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I once had an elderly lady for a friend. She had a wonderful little dog. A mix of some sort. She had the dog trained well and it behaved very well. Learn here https://tr.im/zLXs2
She kept an uncovered candy dish on her coffee table with candy in it. The dog was forbidden to eat the candy. When she was in the room observing the dog he did not even appear to notice the candy. One day while she was in her dinning room she happened to look in a mirror and could see her dog in the living room. He did not know he was being watched. For several minutes he was sitting in front of the candy bowl staring at the candy. Finally he reached in and took one. He placed it on the table and stared at it, he woofed at it. He stared some more, licked his chops and PUT IT BACK in the bowl and walked away. Did he want the candy, oh yeah. Did he eat it? Nope. They can be trained that well but most, I'll admit, are not trained that well. When I was a young boy, maybe 5 years old. We had a german shepherd. He was very well trained also. My mom could leave food unattended on the table, no problem. She would open the oven door and set a pan roast beef or roast chicken on the door to cool. No problem. He would not touch it, watched or not. But butter? Whole other story. You leave a stick of butter anywhere he could reach and it was gone. He was a large shepherd so there were not many places he could not reach. Really, I think the number of dogs trained to the point they will leave food alone when not being supervised is very small indeed.
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Now if we are talking obedience training, not food grubbing, that is a different story. Way back when I was first learning obedience training one of the final exercises was to put our dogs in a down/stay and not only leave the room but leave the building for 15 minutes. The only person that stayed was our trainer, not the owners. Most of the dogs in my class did not break their stay, which would be an automatic fail. I'm happy to report my dog was one of the ones that passed.
2016-07-18 17:35:00 · answer #2 · answered by steve 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best answer for instant results is the baby gate suggestion. That will eliminate your dog from urinating on the tree while you train him or her to leave the tree alone. Try getting an artificial tree or using a spray to keep him or her away from it. Make sure you reenforce the training you have done to make your dog pee outside. You could call it a "refresher" course on potty training.
Walk your dog often and reward your dog for going outside.
Give your dog plenty of other things to keep busy and keep his or her mind off the tree. Bones, toys, stuffed animals, etc. are all ways to refocus the attention of a dog who is fixated on peeing on that tree.
Don't forget to also smile about this. It will make a good story one day. Remember that you probably did train the dog to pee outside and use the trees. Now that you brought the tree inside the house, he or she probably thinks this is just a winter convenince so it doesn't have to go out in the cold! From the dog's point of view, this was an ingenious idea on the part of the human to bring the tree inside!!!
2006-12-11 01:51:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Three suggestions: 1) Apple bitters, sprayed on the lower branches (available at Pets Mart or Petco) 2) The silent dog buzzer that emits a loud ear piercing noise undetectable to humans, but will get your dog's attention immediately, without harming him. I have one that I have used to keep my dog out of the garbage, and from barking unnecessarily (like every time the phone rings). Also available at Pets Mart and Petco. 3) Buy a length of the short, white picket fencing that is held together with wire. Usually available at Lowe's, Home Depot, or other similar stores. I saw this done at a nursing home a week ago to keep the resident's "mascot dog" out of the tree, (as well as the Alzheimer's patients in wheelchairs, I'd guess, too). It had a lot of fluffy cotton batting and a Christmas village scene under it, so there was good reason to fence it off, but I immediately thought of using it for our 3 dogs. However, the buzzer seems to be taking care of ours so far.
Good luck!
2006-12-10 15:40:46 · answer #4 · answered by Deedee 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I also had that problem. My tree is fake and it is white so it was very visible. I over came the problem by taking the branch out of the tree and putting it in his food bowl for his next feeding. Then I would take the branch and wash it and put it back I ended up doing this about 10 times. He stopped peeing on my tree. He has only done that once since I broke him of it last year and again I did the same thing. I have had my tree up since Thanksgiving and we have not had one episode. Good luck!
2006-12-10 16:47:36 · answer #5 · answered by totallyserious29 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the long term, consider an artificial tree...it's the scent not the sight that is causing your dog to want to pee on it.
For the short term, Nature's Miracle makes a whole line of products you can spray on the tree to keep the dog away. Look at Petsmart or Petco.
2006-12-10 15:24:08 · answer #6 · answered by tazmo1 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He is a dog............What do you expect him to do? Look at the tree and tell you what a good job you did decorating it? Why put yourself in this kind of a position?
I have two Maltese and there is no way I would attempt to put up a tree. You could do a small tree on top of a table.
I have an angel sitting out that lights up and that drove them crazy barking at it. If I turn the lights off, they don't bark at it. Tell me dogs do not know color. That is the ONLY day they could know that the angel changes.
I am just not going to put myself in the high level of stress a tree would cause. Try the table.....................
2006-12-10 16:42:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
HaHa - I'm sorry but when I read that I thought - OMG< that so sounds like my luck! Anyway, I know that the quick fix isn't getting him neutered, however, i think that would be a good idea before next year! I would go to Wal-Mart and get that Stay Off spray and spray on and around your tree and that should help. Good Luck!
2006-12-10 16:00:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They make several products, one brand name is Ro-Pel, that contain pheromones that are unable to be smelled by people, but are offensive to dogs and other animals and will encourage your dog to keep his distance from your Christmas tree. No tree - No pee.
2006-12-10 15:27:18 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Get a baby-gate for the door and put it up to keep him out of the room and away from the tree. It's a bother, but it's only temporary.
2006-12-10 15:18:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋