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Anyone know of a product that will absolutely taste bad to Max?

Posted : 9/18/2006 5:16:22 AM

Is there anyone in the world that will absolutely stop Max from chewing my bed sheets. He really seems to have a taste for my fitted sheets. He's ruined a few now. I thought I had it taken care of, but apparently not, because he just did another one this morning. I was just wrapping my arm around the side of the bed until he gave up for the night, which worked for a while until he realized he could just go under it. Then I tried rubbing deodorant on the sheets (I think Jaime posted something about that somewhere) which was working well, other than being a bit annoying in terms of smell to me, until today. While doing these things I would also offer him a bone to chew instead of my sheets. This was working rather well, and he wasn't even trying to chew the sheets some nights, until today. At about 3am, something woke him up, and he proceeded to drive me nuts for a while. I finally got him to come back to bed and chew on a bone, which he proceeded to drop down the side of the bed a few times, and then he decided he would rather eat the sheets. I put more deodorant on them, but he could have cared less. So, he destroyed another sheet. At least I got some on sale at Target last week so I don't have to run out to buy more tonight, but I do need to buy something that will make him stop eating them. Any thoughts other than making him sleep in his crate (I gave up on that idea long ago, before he acquired a taste for bed sheets because he'll bark and cry all night, and I cannot afford the lost sleep involved in attempting to ignore him until he stops.)

Pwca

Posted : 9/18/2006 5:46:51 AM

I wouldn't use deoderant as I think it's poisonous if ingested.
Does he just chew the corners? If that's the case, I'd use some sort of haberno pepper sauce (do this on sheets you don't mind ruining first

- some of them stain) or wasabi. They're very, very spicy.

Cait

Elizabeth Onsurez

Posted : 9/18/2006 7:47:31 AM

hmmmm, maybe spray some applebitters on them, and a stern no when you catch him doing it.

Shohin

Posted : 9/18/2006 7:50:05 AM

a second vote for hot sauce . . . i probably wouldn't use habanero but tabasco would probably do the trick.

I grow lots of hot peppers in my garden . . . winston used to love to come up and sniff and chew away on the plants. Up until yesterday, i'd just stop him before he got to the peppers, but he beat me too it. He took one bite of a jalapeno, spit it out and looked at me like WTF??? I bet he will never touch anything in the garden again!

theresamat

Posted : 9/18/2006 8:00:49 AM

If you can stand the smell, I would try Vicks Vapo Rub. Thats the only thing I have found to be effective with my girls.

Mattie liked to chew one corner of my drywall, the bathroom tiles and the corner of the ramp she has to get up on my bed. I only had to use the vicks one time and thank goodness she has never chewed anything else again. Like you though, I do make sure to keep bones and toys out her to chew on.

Good luck.

patty

Posted : 9/18/2006 8:30:21 AM

I tired most everything when Guinness would not stop chewing her leash.

Someone on here suggested oil of clove. It worked. Be careful though, it will ruin any wood it comes in contact with.

mudpuppy

Posted : 9/18/2006 8:43:57 AM

might be more effective to just keep him away from the sheets.

jennie_c_d

Posted : 9/18/2006 12:14:18 PM

Emma loves bitter apple, bitter lime, and all of those products. She also likes hot sauce. Crazy dog.

I bet the clove oil will work, though, b/c it's an anesthetic, and will make their mouths feel funny.

Margaret Tyler

Posted : 9/18/2006 2:17:38 PM

ORIGINAL: jennie_c_d

Emma loves bitter apple, bitter lime, and all of those products. She also likes hot sauce. Crazy dog.

I bet the clove oil will work, though, b/c it's an anesthetic, and will make their mouths feel funny.

Try a product called Fooey made by Synergy Labs. From pet supply store experience, alot of dogs will go right through bitter apple and bitter lime, but then they tried Fooey. Never had anyone return that. I accidentily put Fooey in my mouth once and i didn't want to salivate for hours. Everytime I did it got worse. Yuck.

tashakota

Posted : 9/18/2006 3:08:03 PM

Pepper will eat Jalapenos and Habeneros. Raw. [:-] but Anbesol might work. It would make his mouth numb. I don't know if it's safe for dogs, but I use it in my mouth for tooth aches and when I bite my cheek or tongue.[8|]

greg petry

Posted : 9/18/2006 3:43:57 PM

definnatly tabasco sauce we had to use that for are rotteweiler we had a few years bck the trainer suggested it and he didnt like it at all. It helped cause he didnt disobey with that.

jennie_c_d

Posted : 9/18/2006 4:26:35 PM

Try a product called Fooey made by Synergy Labs. From pet supply store experience, alot of dogs will go right through bitter apple and bitter lime, but then they tried Fooey. Never had anyone return that. I accidentily put Fooey in my mouth once and i didn't want to salivate for hours. Everytime I did it got worse. Yuck.

Fortunately, Emma doesn't chew too much, anymore. She's about to turn 3, and she's settling down, nicely. A coworker and I tasted all of the taste deterrants at Petsmart, one day, and the cheapest tasted the worst, to us. Of course, it didn't bother Emma.

leslie__chessies

Posted : 9/18/2006 4:33:12 PM

Everyone on my Chessie board uses Listerine Gold.

Jasmine LOVES Bitter Apple.

smilee1079

Posted : 9/18/2006 4:52:28 PM

What about Vick's? The smell alone may turn him away.

leslie__chessies

Posted : 9/18/2006 4:55:30 PM

My dog trainer also swears by wasabi.