The GOOD the BAD and the TOILET paper shredder...

[Corie & Floyd]

well some days it like all 3 rolled...or unrolled in one...lol Floyd is now 13 weeks old and i have had him for 5 weeks.since he came home its been so much fun watching him grow and learn. He takes to commands really well..and others not so much. He has been house broken 4 days after we got him w NO mishaps....so he has slept on the floor of my room. As soon as we head to bed his right in toe. Well the other night he wanted to stay up and get into everything. After the 3rd time he was put in his kennel. well no one got sleep that night. Then the next day we had a few guys over to fix our dishwasher and he Floyd was calm and did every command i asked..so much the 2 guys were shocked he was only 3m old. Now its on to the jumping up to see what on the kitchen table and counters. I tell him "off" but he still has a hard time w this one. If hes not trying to get food or paper towels off the counters its on to ANYTHING paper.....and his fav is unraveling the toilet paper.I dont know if any of you have this problem. I need to start making him drag him leash around the house. I already keep all food once eaten taken off the counters and tables. Kids room picked up and doors closed. It never fails i will find some for of paper torn to bits all on my floor and have to tell him "off" about a few doz times a day.

[Dianne Carter ~ Trinity Doodles]

Ah we do not call that toilet paper in our house ~ it is a canine delicacy, coming in at a close second would be a tie between paper towels and napkins, followed by anything paper. I have one (10 mo) who LOVES tp, but she does not just unravel it, she has figured out how to get it regardless of location, including off the roller or out of the cellophane and runs down the hall with her prize, if her mission is undetected she EATS it. Makes for some interesting yard trips = )

[Corie & Floyd]

yes he loves his paper. he likes to tear in into the smallest bits and spread them around the room. my Hoover gets a lot of love... he has even taken the kids letters off my fridge . if he can get it in his mouth it his....

[Marianne *OZZY & ZOEY]

My dogs still love paper one is 13 and Ozzy is 9 months the thing they get into the most is sanitary products (used of course) that have been put in the garbage.....this is gross and I have gotton a dog proof garbage for the bathroom. Too many embarrassing monents with that problem. Especially if you have company and it belonged to them...

[Corie & Floyd]

hahaha thats too funny... i have a feeling that will happen to me. I can clean the whole house and make sure all is picked up and the doors r closed , but some how he finds paper and eats it. he knows its wrong when i come in the room cause he will tries to hide. with all the toys he has there must be something about the paper Doodles like. maybe we should start a dog food line for them. Sharmen chow

[Mary Beth Sancomb-Moran]

I chuckled all the way through your story! Casey never got into the toilet paper, but his older "sisters" taught him to love the canine delicacy of used Kleenex. It got to the point that we've purchased garbage cans with lids for the bathrooms, because otherwise we'd come home to shredded tissues all over the floor.

Luckily, Casey never figured out that he could get on the counter just by standing up -as it is, he can just reach his nose onto the kitchen counter. One afternoon I was on the computer and had grabbed a piece of the fresh banana bread my husband had just made. (Yes, he bakes. Wonderful man.) Brian came in and asked whether I was hungry, and I just looked at him - and then he laughed and told me to come into the kitchen. There, on the counter, was the banana bread with a HUGE bite taken out of the corner of the bread....and a doodle trying not to look guilty.

[Corie & Floyd]

too cute. i am very used to counter surfers...i was a Dane owner. i trained her early no to do that, but a friend of mine also had a Dane and she was baking cookies when i was over one day....fresh from the oven and there was 1 missing and her Dane that was MIA. i know breeds have there funny quirks....and i found out fast that Doodles love there sticks and paper. and tell ur hubby that i might just need that banana bread recipe ....

[LucyR]

Ozzie, at the age of a very mature 5 years, will still shred the toilet paper if he is miffed. I had company a couple of weeks ago and Ozzie didn't think he was getting enough attention. First effort to get some action...eviscerate Mr. Santa Hedgehog and leave white stuffing all over the living room floor. OK...that didn't work. On to the big guns....unroll the toilet paper in the bathroom for all to see. At that point, he was given a time out and sent to his crate for a couple of minutes until he chilled. When he was welcomed back, we all gave him some love and then he settled down and went to sleep. Oh yes, his other favorite thing to do in the morning, when I don't get moving fast enough is to go wastebasket diving. He LOVES anything plastic-like newspaper wrappers-but failing that...an envelope will do just fine. He shreds like a machine. But, he truly is a very good boy 99% of the time.

[elyse]

LOL been there ! Our Harley is 3 1/2 months. The first day she took the toliet paper off the roll, it was the last roll in the house ! I had to laugh out loud, black dog, white toliet paper all over. The next time she did it she ran through the whole house before I saw her. I thought it was so cute I took pictures before ending her little romp. Big Mistake, because then she thought this was one big game. Now I just keep watching her to stop her before it starts. So far, so good.

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

toilet paper, kleenex, wastebasket paper (anything), magazines, mail, receipts, books hard or paperback (my daughter received one for Christmas without a corner), paper products - toilet paper rolls, paper towel rolls, boxes, wrappers, wrapping (think Christmas!). We try to keep the bathroom doors closed, the pantry door closed and all other wastebaskets are stylishly sitting in the center of counters (Ned is a mini thank goodness). I had a Springer who was a trash digger as a puppy and an old lady but in between we were fine. After reading your entries, I have lost all hope. I will be buying lidded trash cans shortly.

[Debbie and Thomas]

I have a 17 week old doodle-he escaped with the toilet paper several times but we caught him before he shredded it. Re jumping on the counter- Thomas started this about three weeks ago- he is big so he could reach the food etc that was being prepared. I kept him on a short leash and pulled him down and said "off" a million times but back up he jumped. I would bring him into the family room with the family and gives him toys,treats etc and then when I went into the kitchen to prepare dinner he would just follow me and continue to jump up on the counter. Then I put him on a long leash(16 feet) that I tied up so that he could be with me but could not reach the counter. He didn't seem to mind and it gave me some peace. After two weeks of this, with no leash on he sits beside me looking up and then maybe only once or twice jumps up on the counter. He gets down immediately when I say "off". A few times we have had to squirt him with a water bottle in the bum so he can't see the bottle or where it is coming from. His trainer told me never to squirt them in the face-they like it or else it can make them aggressive. Hope this helps-we are going thru the puppy stuff too and people can tell you that they outgrow it-but I'd rather train them right from the start so we can enjoy our dog and not have him steal food when we're not watching. A wise person told me that three months of repetitive training makes for a wonderful happy dog and owner.

[Corie & Floyd]

the kitchen table is the worst. I have to stay on top of my kids...it helps me when they take there dishes off anyhow......he jumps if there is a chair pulled out. he is really good when i tell him "out" and he gets out of the room we r in. this has helped a lot when eating dinner...its just afterward if were not fast or keeping our eye on him...he'll try to sneak ..........