How can i get my dog to stop eating toilet paper....?

Question

i mean she eats anything she finds on the floor, candy wraps, buble gum, q-tips, insects I'm afraid she might get sick. We have to follow her around to avoid her from eating what she's not suppose to. Plus she is a little stealer she steals toys even my niece's bottles and pacifiers.... any suggestions???

She is a Chi/Rat and she's 7 months old....

well my house is not dirty she is an extremely intelligent dot and she would sneak in the bathroom open the toilet paper bin and eat on that....

If you don't have a serious answer for a serious question then please don't even bother on answering with stupidities....

Answer 1

Dogs are like toddlers, you have to move everything up out of their reach.

The bottles and pacifiers smell like food to the dog. It's your job to keep things you don't want the dog to have in places where the dog can't get at it.

If you have trouble with the dog getting on to things like a counter or the sofa, here is a little trick that works.

Take a bunch of empty cans, like a case worth. Puts a few coins or metal washers in the cans - so that they make a lot of sound when dropped. Put all your cans in a mostly open box (like the cardboard tray that is on the bottom of a case of water bottles). Tie a really long piece of fishing line to one corner of the box.

For example, if you don't want the dog to get on the counter. Put your cans on the counter, run the line to someplace where the dog can't see you watching, but you can see the counter. Put something on the counter that would attract the dog to the counter. When the dog goes for the counter pull the collection of cans off so they make a ton of noise hitting the floor. This will scare the bleep out of the dog. You may need to do this several times before the dog makes the connection, but basically your teaching the dog if it goes for something on that counter it's going to be scared. It will eventually avoid the counter all together.

Answer 2

Well you wouldn't leave stuff all over the place if there was a baby crawling around the house, so it is the same with a puppy. Like children they are even more mouth orientated and try every thing out by tasting it or chewing on it.

Make your kids pick up the stuff, or it will end in tears and the puppy could end up eating some chunk of plastic that will get stuck in their intestines and surgery to fix it is expensive, not to mention the terrible suffering the pup would endure.

A chi x terrier will be a naturally active, intelligent and inquisitive dog, but no matter how small they are they still need good training. Try restricting the dog to just one or two rooms in the house for a while.

Never leave any kind of dog around a baby unsupervised. If you are there you can just say no when she goes to pick up the babys toy or pacifiers. Try and do it when the pup makes the first move toward it, since it gets harder once the pup has reached the toy. Distract the pup with a ball or chew toy of its own.

Bubble gum and chewing gum, candy and toothpaste often contain Xylitol and in such a small breed puppy one or two chunks of candy could have enough Xylitol to cause poisoning or even death. The house really needs to be made safe for the puppy, that is part of the responsibility of the adults who brought the pup home. The kids can help out but the adults must set the pace.

Answer 3

The ONLY answer is to remove dog from toilet paper, or toilet paper from dog. Baby gates so even if people don't shut the bathroom door, your dog can't get up anywhere near the bathroom. Not only is having used tissue lying around unhygienic, but it could be that if she's eating it, she could get blocked up and end up on the vet's operating table. Add - Not everybody has the ability to use and flush ..... I've lived in a home with a dodgy septic system which meant we had limited ability to put anything other than the obvious down the loo. But not only did our animals have no access to the bathroom, but our bins had latched lids!!

Answer 4

I know what you are going through. My little Chi/Rat Terrier was the same way as a puppy, as was my Beagle, older APBT and now my 5 month old APBT. They would pick up everything and eat or chew on it. Most things will not make them sick. Toilet paper dissolves instantly the other stuff will pass through. You have to puppy protect your house, close the bathroom door, put everything up where the pup can't get it. My biggest problems were getting my grandson to put the remotes up, I had a bunch chewed up. The other was keeping then out of the garbage, which was the biggest problem. It was a $3000.00 surgery to remove a corn cob that my Pit swallowed whole. I had to get a bungee cord to lock the lid on the garbage can. The hardest ones to train are the kids and the rest of the family to keep thing out of the pups reach. Which from my experience is harder than teaching the pup. They say humans are smarter then dogs, I sometimes wounder.

Answer 5

Pups need supervision constantly because they view the world thru their mouth. That is how they test stuff, we can pick it up and examine it but dogs are hardwired to try and eat stuff. Keep the bathroom door closed, I have never known any dog, no matter what breed or age who won't eat paper towels or toilet paper off the rolls. Keep her on a leash when the neice is around and give her a correction for trying to steal the kid's junk and then give her a YUMMY chewie. All dogs esp pups need lots of chew toys, if they do not have chew toys they will chew the house.

Answer 6

I have a dog that will eat a lot of things and the best way to deal with it is to keep things picked up and shut the bathroom door and make sure she has plenty of her own toys. I also recommend confining the dog to a doggie proofed room or a crate when you can't supervise.

Answer 7

Like used toilet paper? Eww, put the waste basket ontop of the toilet when no one is in there, or close doors behind you. Also, keep your floors clean, easier said then done, but for the health of your dog, make a concious effort.

Its gross, but my dog did it too. So I had to start shutting the door and even blocking off the top half of my house.

Answer 8

You have to associate something negative with chewing everything up. Set up something for about an hour, leaving out toilet paper and all that stuff (on the floor in one room). Make sure you're just in a room with the doors closed and watch the dog. Whenever the dog goes to chew up the toilet paper or other objects, you can squirt him/her in the face with a water bottle (since dogs hate that), or what we did was use one of those loud blow horns. We would repeat the process for about an hour, then give the dog a resting period for 12-24 hours. Then repeat the process.

If your dog is like all the other dogs, then this should work. lol.

(For those of you who are freaking out at this, this is how you properly train your dog NOT to do something. Ask ANY trainer. Or even a psychologist. lol.)

Answer 9

I have the same problem. I love my dog, but she will eat anything. Toilet Paper, Baby Wipes, q-tips, cotton balls, bugs, poop, anything. I tried that Icky Bitter, she just kept chewing and licking, then puked 3 times. So here is my answer, I DONT KNOW! Everyone keeps telling me she is a puppy and will grow out of it. SHe is 7 months also. Hope your problem gets better. Hope your puppy does not get sick.

Answer 10

When you catch her in the act, just pop her a little and tell her no. Soon, she should catch on. Also, make sure you provide her some toys of her own. And try to pick ones that she really likes. Maybe even try taking her to the store with you before you buy them to see which she likes best. And, last but not least, she's still gonna do it sometimes... especially if she is a puppy.

Good luck.