stuffed animals and dogs

[robinette]

now, this brings me to my question how will he react to stuffed animals that my baby will have??? will he try and take them???

I saw a show that had this same problem. They did scent training with the stuffed animals. This works well because you can choose which animals you dog can have and which ones he can't have by putting scents on them.

Now you will have to reasearch this more to do it correctly but here is the jist of it.

You get 2 scents, essential oils work well. You designate one scent thats a green light or ok for your dog to go to and the other is a no no and only for your child. The scents can be anything, they don't have to be harsh or foul. Maybe choose one that your child likes since it will be on their toys.

You have to train him first as to what scent is ok and what scent isn't. Once you have done that you mark the toys that he can have with the ok scent and the other toys with the no no scent. If you work with a clicker then you could incorporate that in his learning of which scent is ok and not ok.

This means that you can do this with any toys, or any object that you don't want your dog to play with. I also saw them do it for room barriers. They didn't want their dog in a certian room so they marked the doorways where she could and couldn't go with the 2 different scents. It worked quite well for the people on the show and makes sense if you think about it. Dogs have sensitive noses and should respond well to the scent training. I have not done this myself but have seen a few shows on scent training and it seemed to work. This way you don't have to put your kids toys up high or away.

I would google it to get more info on the proper way to do it.

Hope this helps.

 

[Coco'smommy]

I don't really have any advice because we have this issue with Coco too, she thinks they all belong to her. We just have to keep them put up when not in use and keep the bedroom doors closed. My kids are old enough to be responsible like this however. If they were small that wouldn't work. In any case I do have a funny story though. My son has this large stuffed Ram with the antlers, beard & all. Coco loves it. Here awhile back Coco was going berserk with something in the family room, throwing it around, pouncing on it and so on. I made her drop it and then all I saw was a black fuzzy thing. I thought OMG what kind of dead animal has she drug in here...:eek: I slowly crept over to it, between the coffee table & couch, ever so gently peeking because I just knew it was going to move and I would have messed my drawers if that happened. I picked up a ruler off the desk and carefully reached down and flipped it over. Do you know it was the blasted beard off that ram. She ripped his beard right off.. She had me so freaked out and it was just a little ball of black fake fur :rolleyes:

 

[alyssakitz]

Coco's Mommy - That is too funny. Zoe has a thing for stuffies as well.... she has learned which are hers and which aren't though, as I keep all her toys in the same place so she knows which belong to her. Not to say that temptation doesn't get the best of her at times, but she seems to understand the difference between her toys and the kids. Have had to rescue some favorites from her on occassion - and she always gives me the "I'm busted" look when I catch her so am pretty sure she knows that she isn't supposed to have them. I don't get mad at her when she gets the kids toys though... I always tell them that if they leave them out where Zoe can get them they're fair game!
Oh.... I also ALWAYS shut the kids bedrooms when we aren't home and she is. Forgot the other day and came home to a bald barbie!

 

[ZOE*BOXER]

Zoe has a toy bucket, actually it is a car wash bucket. When she wants a toy, she either gets it out gracefully or more often dumps the whole thing over. It really works out well because she knows whatever is in that bucket is fair game.

 

[Griffin'sMom]

My dogs have "stuffed animals" of their own and honestly I haven't had any problem with them taking off with any of the stuffed animals out of the kids' room, but then again I have a rule that if it is on the floor it's fair game for the dogs and I won't yell at them for taking it Great ploy to get the kids to pick up too!

Anyway, my dogs have a "toy box" and even the pup runs there to drag stuff out.