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Dog eating conkers

  • 09-10-2016 9:18pm
    #1
    Andso
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭


    Wonder if anyone has any advise on how stop/ help this for dog? I have a 1 year old springer spaniel who started making a game for himself jumping up to grab conkers off the tree a few months back. this was fine as he could only reach a few but now since it's the time they are falling off he is breaking open shell and chewing on conkers. I tried giving out to him, offering a treat instead but nothing has worked. There are 100s of the blasted things. As soon I have yard cleared( 3 wheel barrows one time) an hour later it's as bad as ever. He has now started vomiting and is off his food and I can't think of what else to do. Any ideas welcome please. He's a very smart dog and quick to learn so I think I'm missing the obvious


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  • #2
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    A muzzle?


  • #3
    Bells21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭Bells21


    Is he swallowing them or chewing on them because from what I can remember and I'm open to being corrected, conkers when ingested can make a dog ill. In terms of trying to keep him away from them a good solid 'leave it' command would be useful and also having other toys/balls etc that he can play with rather than the conkers might work.


  • #4
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,488 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    http://www.k9magazine.com/conkers/

    According to this they're poisonous, and also pose a choking hazard, so quite dangerous!


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