Dog eating the wall

[Mel]

My dog is eating a hole in the plaster in my hallway. I have considered boredom as she is a border collie, but she has loads of toys and chews and is played with often and walked regularly. In fact yesterday she nipped off for a plaster nibble as I was playing with her. She isn't destructive of anything else. My next thought was to wonder if she is deficient in some vitamin or mineral. We feed her Bakers complete and some biscuit bones as well as doggie treats and chew sticks. She has a lovely glossy coat and bright eyes and does not look malnourished, Any ideas?
mel

 

[Sproket]

Mel
Change the food from Bakers to wag puppy food, there are too many preservaties in the Bakers & it will be sending the poor thing wappy ..........
We lost our eldest just over a fortnight ago, & he was fed it for a short while when he was a pup 15 years ago, OH says that it was that that sent him bonkers..........
Have a read of this

 

[Gagakev]

Mel click" here
http://uk.ask.com/web?q=What+Smell+Do+Dogs+Hate?&qsrc="14114&o=17&l=dirdont" know if it will work but may give you some idea what to spray the area with and hope she does'nt move on to some where else

 

[Sproket]

Hi Mel
Any change......

 

[Mel]

love it..........but no
mel

 

[Dustydog]

Hi Mel
My two did exactly the same when they were pups and always in the same place in the utility room, never anywhere else!
I bought some clear perspex sheet and fitted that over the damaged wall . Strangely enough they never tried eating that nor did they move onto walls new.
All this happened long after they had lost their puppy teeth. I suspected there was some tasty bit in the plaster board they liked but at least they grew out of it. I did think about a cuttle fish bone , like the ones budgies get but never bothered.

About that time we also introduced them to Hollings air dried pigs ears which even today is the treat of all treat.
The hardest thing for us was catching them at it!! They sleep in the utility room. Certainly the perspex worked for us.

Good luck with Jazzie

 

[chrisbee1]

When my Border collie was a puppy she used to chew the bottom stair. I "repaired " the marks with mustard paste, seemed to do the trick but didn't take the paint too well.

 

[plswallow]

Ower six month old staffie did the same , took him to vets (he not happy at that) and was told vitimin defecencey changed food too pedigre chum dry and he has been fine since ( now 3.5 years)

 

[Mel]

I have mixed her diet up a bit; different dried foods, mixer and scraps. Seems to have stopped, (or she just grew out of it)
mel