Does your pet makes you sick?

Philippines
January 16, 2011 7:19am CST
A friend give me a two months and a half old dog. He is very active and always loves to play. My little girl is very fond of him that she had the memory of phone full with his pictures. We call him burgeux. I have to bring him home since I am just renting a room in my workplace. I do not know what makes him sick when we get there. Maybe the 2 hours ride makes him sick that he sometimes vomits and won't eat. He will take water only and a little milk. It lasted for a week and slowly he started to taste his food. Now he has fully recovered but what makes us sick is that he became to be a garbage collector. One day he would bring home diapers and shred it to the tiniest pieces sometimes plastic bags. How can we stop such behavior?
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• Paraguay
17 Jan 11
my pet gives me and my family an enjoyment. I think that kind of behavior is just normal, it's only up to you how will you deal with it.
@knicnax (2232)
• Philippines
17 Jan 11
Travel does take a toll on pets, IMHO, that would explain why he got sick. As for his behavior, show him that you're not pleased when he brings home garbage. Like act like your mad, spank his nose or shout at him. Let him know that it isn't okay. If you don't want to do that, you could make the place where he gets the garbage unsafe for him. Like put something rough or hot or something that could slightly hurt him on those places. That way he'll avoid the place and not be able to get trash. If he get's trash outside, make going outside hurtful or hard. Also, buy him a chew toy that he could use, then whenever he uses his chew toy, praise him. That way, he knows which is not acceptable.
• United States
16 Jan 11
I have not had that problem yet withmy dog i have now but i have driven a dog i had in the past a couple hours to a families house and he didnt have a good time at all and threw up a couple of times on the way there and im glad i did have some towels down just in case. I guess dogs just have car sickness and i think its just little dogs that do this for some reason because i have never heard of a bigger dog doing this ever. After my dog throw up at home and then dog i have now he will not eat untill he feels better but he will drink some water and after the dog throws up it is good to give milk because it helps settle the stomach. My dog threw up last week when i came home from work and i knew he had ate something because my dad said he feed him and he threw up all the food he had ate until later that night he would not eat anything and i would say it was a good three to four hours until he would eat something.