How to Prevent Puppies From Eating Plant Fertilizers
- 1). Fence off the fertilized area. Use small plastic lawn dividers or small metal fences to surround gardens and flower beds. These small fences show your puppy there is a barrier it is not to cross. If the puppy large, use taller fences.
- 2). Tell your puppy no. Use verbal commands to let your puppy know what you expect from it, just as you would about the puppy pottying inside or chewing on a shoe. If you see the puppy nosing the fertilizer or with fertilizer in its mouth, sternly say "no" or "drop it." Pick up the puppy, move it to another part of the yard, and give it something to chew, such as a tennis ball or rawhide bone. Then tell the puppy, "good dog." That way it knows this is approved behavior, while the fertilizer eating is not.
- 3). Utilize a corrective collar. If barriers and verbal commands do not work, a corrective collar may make the difference. Choose from an ultrasonic, static shock, or citronella collar. Used for various forms of training, these collars work to distract the puppy when it does something wrong. The collars require that you watch your puppy and press a corrective button on the remote when you see the dog getting into the fertilizer.
