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Christmas⊠to tree or not to tree
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DogFoodie
MemberAlas, thereâs a place for all of my totally random off topic ramblings! Best of all⊠no ***OFF TOPIC*** disclaimer needed!
So, my dilemma is thisâŠ
Now that itâs finally gotten âcoldâ and we finally had some snow tonight, itâs starting to feel a little like Christmas. With a 60 pound Golden pup, Iâve reached this crossroad⊠do I put up a Christmas tree that Iâm quite certain Sam will knock over, chew up or something worse; or do I forgo the tree this year? I considered the possibility of a tiny tree on top of a cabinet in the living room and I refuse to consider the purchase of a play-yard like you use for babies that goes all the way around the tree. The worst part of all this is that I donât want my daughter to feel disappointed.
I just wondered how you guys planned to puppy-proof your homes for the holidays?
cyndi
Participantwe got a pound puppy 2 months ago (canât figure out how to get his pic in my profile), and decided not to put up a tree because heâs into everrrrything. butâŠi donât have a kid, so thereâs no one to be disappointed. i think you should go for a small tree you can put on a table for your daughter, and make it totally hers â let her do the decorating! we cut back drastically on any decorations that are his level, because i donât want to be yelling âleave itâ all month!
Toxed2loss
ParticipantHi Betsy,
I have had a puppy in the house for the last 3 Christmases, I do the tree with non breakable ornaments on the bottom. I also work with the dog, reinforcing the âleave itâ command with lots of praise and treats for successful experiences. In just a few minutes, Iâve had all my pups looking at me as if to say âsee me leaving that alone? Do I get a treat?â I make sure to reinforce it a lot for a few days. By the third day, no problem. I should say, I do have a very stable stand, not one of those flimsy ones with the three legs. đ Though weâve never had an incident. The other thing is, I donât put mine up for a month either. Just a couple of weeks. And of course, I donât leave the dogs loose in the house on their own, since Iâm always here. đInkedMarie
MemberIâve never had a problem with a dog trying to pull the tree down, only a kid (we put it in the playpen one year). We do have to make sure there are no wooden ornaments within reach or Boone finds a new chew toy:)
I have three trees. One in the breezeway and a small one on the dining room table (not decorated, only lit) and one in the living room. We have three mostly to piss off the neighbors, truth be told.
theBCnut
MemberJust last year, I got a table top tree because Of BC pup in the house. They are totally OCD about balls. This year we have another pup, it will be table tree again. My kids are getting old enough that they arenât wild about the tree having to go up at the first possible moment anymore, so itâs no disapointment to them to have a dwarf tree. When they were younger they loved the idea of their own tree.
Hound Dog Mom
ParticipantGrowing up we always had a big tree in the living room then Iâd have a small tree in my bedroom that I put homemade ornaments and popcorn strings on. We had a German Shepherd at the time. One day we left her alone in the house â BIG mistake. When we got home the big tree in the living room was tipped over, ornaments were chewed up, she went in my room and ate all the popcorn strings off my tree and she was pooping out tinsel for a couple days. Sheâs so lucky she didnât get an intestinal blockage (this is the same dog that climbed on the counter to reach the shelf above the counter to get to my halloween candy another year, ate it all and lived to tell the tale lol)! Anyways, my hounds donât bother the tree. I had more of an issue with my kitten to be honest â he was always trying to climb it and was batting at the ornaments and tearing them off the tree. Iâd just put a doggie gate up â if youâre not going to be there to supervise sam just put the gate up so he canât get into the room the tree is in.
Shawna
MemberWeâre not putting up a tree this year because my house is Buzz proofed (my one year old grandson).. Darn kid gets into EVERYTHING!!!
IF you put up a tree and have glass ornaments make sure you have cotton balls and real cream in the house.. If Sam eats any of them you can soak the cotton balls in the cream and feed them slowly one by one to Sam. We had to do this with our first foster dog â she ate the THICK glass fixtures off my expensive lamp on my headboard (three of them each about half the size of a tennis ball â left the bulbs just ate the glass fixture). The cotton ball and cream was the vets suggestion. Worked like a charm.
I like Cyndiâs idea of using a table top tree and letting your daughter decorate it too..
InkedMarie
MemberShawna, when our youngest was 11 months old, it was Christmas time. We put the tree in the playpen.
Shawna
MemberThatâs a good idea Marie exceptâŠâŠ. Buzz is a year and seven months now.. For about seven months now he has been scaling the baby gates (which we actually use for the dogs not the babies). For the last month or two heâs been pulling himself up the back of the livingroom chair and sofa to get on the furniture. The easy way is apparently not challenging enough⊠ughhh.. The playpen is a bit higher then the back of the furniture but I see him either 1. pulling the playpen and tree down on himself or 2. succeeding in getting IN the playpen with the tree⊠Heâs a strong little dude.. Amazes me how strong he is.. Not even two and can lift his own body weight â and heâs not small. He is the same weight minus 2/10 of a pound as his sister who is 13 months older than himâŠ.
Heâs the first baby human boy Iâve ever been around⊠I had NO IDEA!!!! đ Heâs completely fearless and will get what he wants come hâ or high water⊠He does mind if you are watching him 24/7. I live in the real world though and he can move FAST :)..
pugmomsandy
ParticipantI did a tree on the dining table one year and a doggie gate/xpen around the tree another year. This year, Iâm just going to gate off the whole dining room as hubby already bought a huge tree that is too big to go upstairs. Upstairs would have been nice since it is gated off!
DogFoodie
MemberI was talking to my daughter about our tree dilemma on the way to school this morning. It sounds like weâve decided to go ahead and put up ye old plastic greenery, with very few ornaments.
Last year, my pretty tree seemed to have an issue in that one of the plugs was corroded and âSection Bâ wouldnât light at all. So, I decided that this year would have to be the last year for this tree anyway. I have to have to gate off the living room, but suspect thatâs what weâll end up doing anyway⊠at least the majority of the time.
Question for Shawna, tell me more about the cotton balls and cream!? I know you said if itâs they eat something glass⊠so is it basically to coat their stomach and attach to the glass so that the shards pass through?
Toxed, agreed⊠our tree isnât up yet and wonât be for long. But, youâre infinitely more disciplined with your dog training than I am! Remember, your dogs deliver the cardboard TP roll to the kindling basket, pick up their toys and put them away, etc⊠and thatâs just to start. ; )
Toxed2loss
ParticipantHi Betsy,
Well, thatâs just because I get bored easy, just like the dogs. GFETE I start wondering things like, âIs it possible to train a dog to______?â Sometimes its because Iâm lazy. Sometimes because its challenging. Sometimes because its funny. đ o.k., then thereâs that disability thing. Stuff I need her to do⊠:-} It really doesnât take that long. Just a few minutes here and there.Hue Z
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Akari_32
ParticipantWe always put a tree up, and one of the first things we teach the dogs are âleave itâ and ânoâ. Moms got a lot of breakable things throughout the house, so itâs important that they learn not to bother things that isnât meant for them, for their safety and moms sanity.
When we put the tree up, itâs always in a place thatâs a bit out of the way (though this year itâs not) and the breakable ornaments are always on the top half of the tree. And if we donât trust them to be left alone with it, the offending pets are put away when we leave the house (the cat this year, in our case. Itâs his first tree, and he wants to play with all the pretty dangly things LOL).
If you have the patience, itâs a perfect time to teach your guy a few things about what is his and what is not, and what is appropriate to be crazy around and what is not.
theBCnut
MemberWhen I had puppies around Christmas, I always put an x-pen around the tree. Now, I have a smaller tree that I put on the dining room table.
Dog_Obsessed
Member@Hue z That has nothing to do with the topic. This is not a place for promoting certain brands of dog food.
DogFoodie
MemberFunny thing is, I first posted this two years ago, and we did in fact put the tree up. As crazy as Sam was as a puppy, he left it alone for the most part; with one minor exception that some of you may recall, that darn glass ornament that he got a hold of and promptly crunched up and swallowed, landing us at the vet first thing in the morning the day after Christmas.
crazy4cats
ParticipantMy goofy (psycho) dog has chewed up at least 5 ornaments and a centerpiece so far. He is three years old now, but still is not to be trusted. Am looking for a some type of gate or pen to put around the tree. It makes me so mad, but also concerned about him eating something dangerous. So far no Santa or Snowman heads have shown up in the yard! Lol!
Hater and Mollyâs Mom
MemberMy girls are ok with the tree. I had some stuffed santas and snowmen sitting around but they are pretty much chewed up! I couldnât keep Molly off of them. She seemed to think they were her new toys!
Both girls have stockings. They are just waiting for Santa to come fill them.-
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