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| Ok. My 12 year old female Corgi has literally lost her mind. I raised her from a puppy and got her at 6 weeks. She has been perfect and amazing!!! Just in the last year or so she has started destroying my house out of nowhere !!! Never a problem all these years and she pretty much rips the carpet up in every room all the way down to the foundation. No rhyme or reason for it. I think something with her age has made her senile. I love her to death and she is a sweetheart but has gone in sane literally. Any ideas ? Starting tomorrow my only option is to put her in the back of my horse trailer when I leave. She can't claw aluminum and rubber mats!!! What would cause this?? I might have to just put her down. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Get her a kennel to sleep in, all my little doggies {3} two stay on the back screened in porch in their kennel when the weather is good and my other little dog stays in the house but at night they all stay in their kennels so there's no accidents on my floors. |
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| I would get her a kennel as well. I locked a dog up in my horse trailer thinking the same thing, and he ripped up the floor mats and chewed all the rubber lining off the door! He about ended his life there! :) |
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  Witty Enough
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Location: CTX | Yup, get a kennel. My rat terrorist is outside in his pen when we are not home, but when we go to sleep he sleeps in his kennel in the mudroom. Nothing to chew on, and no accidents. As soon as I say "time to go to sleep" he will get in his kennel. That's his safe place.  |
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Location: Texas | Put her on a vitamin and mineral, could be a deficiency or hormone change due to her age. |
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Location: Texas | A kennel is your best bet. She can't destroy anything while she's in it. |
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 Knowledge is Power
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Location: wherever my daughter's running | Has she been checked by a vet? |
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| I started seeing poop and pee spots in the house, after NEVER having had accidents, so in my mind I blamed it on my younger Heeler. It was sporadic at times, sometimes even over night when I was home (they always wake me to go out). Then I had to start hiding or elevating my trash, something I have NEVER, NEVER had to do....I could leave a piece of steak on the dash of my truck and they would never touch it.
After a few years of this...and refilling the water dish constantly, it slowly dawned on me that my older, Red Heeler was taking literally minutes to pee. Off to the vet's we go, me thinking it was Cushings...turned out that his is Diabetic. Once we got his sugar under control with Insulin, all the bad behavior stopped. He couldn't help himself, poor guy.
Not sure what kind of destruction is going on but I too would start with a trip to the vet for behavior that starts out of nowhere. |
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 Too Skinny
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Location: LA Lower Alabama | Vet trip and crate. Something has changed but you have to find it first.
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| Thanks everyone! |
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 My Heart Be Happy
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Location: Arkansas | Let us know what you find out |
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Location: 31 lengths farms | Good friends of ours moved recently and a month or so after they got new carpet put in the new house the dogs started chewing and digging thru it. Turns out they had a huge squirrel infestation under the house. |
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Knowledge is Power
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Location: wherever my daughter's running | Checking back to see how your corgi is doing. |
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My Heart Be Happy
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Location: Arkansas | Bump |
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| cruise - 2017-02-20 7:39 AM
Checking back to see how your corgi is doing.
Vet visit was uneventful. Vet offered a prescription for human anti psychotics but I refused that. Not yet anyway. We trimmed her nails really short and so far she has not even offered to make a mistake! So far so good! |
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Knowledge is Power
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Location: wherever my daughter's running | Thank you for the update. Hope her behavior continues to improve. |
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