| Fionna ( @ 2007-11-02 16:51:00 |
| Current mood: | bemused |
| Current music: | I'll Be That Girl - Barenaked Ladies |
| Entry tags: | tesla |
Putting lip-balm on rawhide
Literally.
Just one of things I would never have thought of doing before I got a dog.
The Dog Expert Book* recommends encouraging your dog to chew the right things by coating acceptable chew toys with something the dog really likes, like peanut butter.
Well, we haven't tried Tesla with peanut butter yet, but she does love lip-balm. She cracks open the casing and eats up the entire stick (I guess it is her equivalent of a soft-centred chocolate), when we leave it about. One way to get her undivided attention is to apply the lip-balm to your own lips, and a special reward for her is to apply it to her nose.
So, now I am trying it on her chew toys. If it works, I'll switch to the cheapest vaseline I can find, but I suspect she will just lick off the lip-balm, and then go on a crazed quest to find more.
* There are hundreds and thousands of Dog Expert Books. Most of them contradict each other, and some of them even contradict themselves. I'm thinking of writing my own.