New Ex + Puppy= Bad Dog/No Start

[Paul Crowl]

3 days after bringing home our new X, my wife had a no start condition in our driveway. I troubleshot it with my outdated 7.3L logic, then gave up and called for a tow to the dealership.

Well, it seems that one of our dogs, a 9 month old Lab named Sam (From the Seuss story "Sam I Am") took a liking to the taste of the wire bundle running from the left frame rail to the rear of the tranny. Chewed the crap out of it [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

$159 made it better. Had I thought to look underneath, I could have fixed it myself for free, but oh well.

After I got it home, I reversed the plastic wire loom anchors on the frame crossmember and added a few zip ties to pull them down and forward, out of the way. To finish, I sprayed the wires (And others)down with OC pepper spray. It's worked for me in the past to prevent dog damage to home, barn and tools.

[JohnBoyII]

Just wait !!!
your lab isn't even to the "chewing" stage yet !!!!!

At about 18 months to two years we had to keep 2x4's in the back yard and rub them down with their favorite flavor hoping to get them to chew them instead of the myriad shovels, wheel barrows, lawn mowers, bricks on the house, digging two feet down to chew the cable TV wires.... etc...

like I say, your's hasn't even got the the terrible two's yet [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
and let's not talk about the 1x2 foot carpet that had to be replaced or the deck post that has been chewed half thru [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

but TRY to pry those dogs away from the kids and Momma -
have you ever seen a 110 lb lap dog [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] ? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
they are the best and one will do ANYTHING to try and please us !!!

if I have to scold the other "independent" one, the other gets their feelings hurt [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Bruce1954]

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Well, it seems that one of our dogs, a 9 month old Lab named Sam (From the Seuss story "Sam I Am") took a liking to the taste of the wire bundle running from the left frame rail to the rear of the tranny. Chewed the crap out of it [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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A lab will chew on any thing, we have had two, one went through the dry wall! But that was pior to chewing every corner off of every kitchen oak chair but what the heck they were in need of recovering and a little refinishing anyway. All those minwax products work great don't they?

Any way look on the bright side, if you made it to 9 months you only have 13 to go!

Had one get into an 86 Mercur XR-4TI and eat the leather off the head rest!

Hang in there as their is no better Family dog in my opinion

Bruce

[Paul Crowl]

Nice to see that others have shared in the joys and pain of Labrador Retrievers. Sam is our 4th Lab (Future breeder, if he keeps his act together), and we're familiar with the chew habits.

I laugh when people say that chewing is the sign of a bored dog, as Sam has the attention of two older dogs, one's a Lab and the other is a Boxer mix. They play, run and mock fight about 20 hours per day, taking breaks to harass the barn cats and visiting neighbor dogs.

He's not bored, he's a Lab, and can chew while asleep. He's especially efficient in destroying children's flip flop thongs. 10 seconds and they're little bits of colored rubber.. And to top it off, he can deftly remove our littlest's (18 mos) diaper without knocking her over or disturbing her shorts. She thinks it's funny, but she doesn't have to clean diaper bits out of the lawn.

Good thing we live out in the country...

[coldair]

we had 5 Golden's at one time and we managed with very little chewing by a combination of crate training and keeping lots of chew toys in our dirty laundry. Dogs tend to get nervous and chew when they miss their owners presence, but it you keep giving them toys with your scents on them you can really reduce the destruction