StarFox Posted May 4, 2003 Posted May 4, 2003 Help me Please!!!! Zebra won't stop scratching at the floor in the kitchen. It is soooo annoying and he only does it late at night. He scratches at the linolium(sp?) and tries to dig threw the floor, he's already gotten chunks of the foor out in certain spots. :o I think he only does it for attention because he knows I'll get up to make him stop. But it's soo annoying and it wakes everyone in the house up and my parents get so mad and tell me to make him stop. But I can't! I've tried everything! I have used bitter apple where he scratches but he'll just go to a different spot. I've tried to ignore it thinking that he would stop but he just does it more. I've squirted water at him when he does it but he like the water and stickes his face at the water. I've given him his Kong to play with but he dosn't care. In fact he is doing right now as I type this! I'm about ready to tie his feet together to make him stop! It is literally driving me insane! :crazyeyes: It figures that we break him of his bad habbit of growling and snapping at us, just to get another bad habbit. Quote
Marble Posted May 5, 2003 Posted May 5, 2003 do you have a crate? maybe you could crate him at night so he would not be tearing up the floors ? i'm not thinking of any other suggestions right now but if i do i'll let you know. Quote
pei obssessed Posted May 5, 2003 Posted May 5, 2003 What about keeping him with you in the room at night (that is, if he's not crate trained)? he doesn't need to roam in the night, and you could tell him to stop whenever he starts anything evil in your room, right? Quote
StarFox Posted May 5, 2003 Author Posted May 5, 2003 Thought about the crate thing but he dosn't have one. :o so I guess that is out of the question. And I can't take him into the computer room so taking him into the room i am in is kinda out of the question. BUt thanks for the suggestions. I'm so pathetic I've actually begun to hide behind a chair so he can't see me and when he starts scratching I squirt him with ice cold water. :oops: I'm spying on my own dog! I'm soo lame! But I can't figure out what else to do. Quote
snowpaws Posted May 5, 2003 Posted May 5, 2003 Thats not a silly idea starfox, It's a good one.. :D Hopefully it will work, and he will learnt that doing it is wrong. If not you could try the crate idea, but as he is not used to one you would have to train him to get used to it first :-? Quote
courtnek Posted May 5, 2003 Posted May 5, 2003 OK this is going to sound really goofy, but what type of heat do you have? Is it radiant with pipes running under the floor? the reason I ask is that if there is air in the line, it hisses and makes a "squeaky" sound, which sounds like an animal to the dog. He may be trying to catch the "critter" he thinks lives under the floor. Early in the morning is when the heat would come on. If that's your scenario, bleed the lines to let the air out. Freebee tried to dig through the floor because of a wristwatch that was in the basement. A beeping alarm would go off every day at 2:00 p,m, but since I wasnt here I never heard it until one Saturday.... It was accidental that I caught it. I was doing laundry when it went off and I heard Freebee start to try to dig up the floor again. Getting rid of the watch solved the problem. Quote
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