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How to stop dog chewing ABS cable?
So what is the appropriate way to train a dog to no longer chew at an
ABS brake cable under a car? You'd think some duct tape could take care of this but is there anyway of correcting the dogs behaviour? A couple of days ago the dog chewed thru 7400 thb's worth of ABS cable and that night my wifes mother chained the dog to a pole thinking it would stop the dog from being under the car. Turned out to be a bad idea as the dog didn't like being chained to a pole and subseqently damaged a 10,000 thb plant pot trying to get free. Usually the dogs are treated well. Now the dog is wearing the cone shaped hat you see when dogs come out of the hospital to stop them biting at their stitches but this surely isn't a good long term solution? |
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How to stop dog chewing ABS cable?
On 21 Apr 2007 18:29:35 -0700, Robert Nicholson
wrote: So what is the appropriate way to train a dog to no longer chew at an ABS brake cable under a car?... Wait just a minute! Your dog prefers ABS cable over Kongs, rawhide, squeaky toys and so forth? That's one sick puppy! ___________________________ Don't sweat the small stuff--and most of it is small stuff. :-) |
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How to stop dog chewing ABS cable?
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Michael A. Ball wrote: Wait just a minute! Your dog prefers ABS cable over Kongs, rawhide, squeaky toys and so forth? That's one sick puppy! Mushers typically use outriggers on their trucks to tie the dogs out because it's not exactly unheard-of for dogs to chew through (hydraulic) brake lines and it's a good idea to put some space between the dogs and the underside of the truck. So a few years ago the guy who built my dogbox was out training in late fall. He races open class sprint and he had a big bunch of dogs pulling his ATV, but the trails were icy and the ATV slid off the trail, down a hill, and got wedged between a couple of trees. Fortunately neither Tom nor the dogs were injured, but the ATV was good and stuck and Tom couldn't get it out, so he was faced with the problem of how to get all those dogs the several miles back to the truck. He figured that he'd been out long enough for the dogs to be tired and that they'd probably behave themselves, so he unhooked them from the quad and tied the gangline around his waist. Well, he judged wrong about how tired the dogs were, and he was pulled face-first at a good clip down several miles of rocky trail. He was pretty banged-up so he called his wife to come get him. By the time she got there the dogs were all unharnessed and boxed, and Tom was feeling like he could drive home safely. She still thought it was a good idea to follow behind him just to keep an eye on his driving in case he had a concussion, and she was very worried indeed to see him driving very, very slowly. When they got home he explained that he had no brakes, that one of the dogs had chewed through the brake cable. The dog was rushed to the vet just in case it had swallowed some brake fluid, but fortunately it was okay, and Tom lived to do lots of other risky crap. Anyway, I don't know about cables, but dogs sure do like to chew on brake lines. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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How to stop dog chewing ABS cable?
You could rap it in duck tape with hot peppers stuck to the glue or you
could build the dog a decent sized pen to keep him from getting poisoned or eventually run over from lack of breaks. "Robert Nicholson" wrote in message oups.com... So what is the appropriate way to train a dog to no longer chew at an ABS brake cable under a car? You'd think some duct tape could take care of this but is there anyway of correcting the dogs behaviour? A couple of days ago the dog chewed thru 7400 thb's worth of ABS cable and that night my wifes mother chained the dog to a pole thinking it would stop the dog from being under the car. Turned out to be a bad idea as the dog didn't like being chained to a pole and subseqently damaged a 10,000 thb plant pot trying to get free. Usually the dogs are treated well. Now the dog is wearing the cone shaped hat you see when dogs come out of the hospital to stop them biting at their stitches but this surely isn't a good long term solution? |
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