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Originally Posted by philtaylor
Thankyou for the swift reply.
I'll watch her closely when she's outside and punish her more next time she tries to chew it. That'll hopefully nip the problem in the bud.  |
This is far off topic from bonsai, but I am a dog lover in addition to bonsai . . . your course of action here is wrong on multiple levels in my opinion. I'm sorry, but if you truly care for your dog then I would hope that you would be willing to take every precaution necessary to ensure you're dogs safety. If that meant removing the plant, or making it inaccesible to the dog than so be it. When I got my new dog, I went through my yard with a fine toothed comb to find potentially toxic plants and removed them . . . I did this BEFORE the dog came home.
As for punishing the dog "more" . . . I will not even get into that here becuase its not the appropriate place to do so.
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