Seems like common knowledge - dogs like sticks.

I wish I had remembered that. I received my UCD shipment on Wednesday and put them in the fridge. About an hour ago I pulled them out and put them on the table and began setting up on my office for the work ahead.

Came out maybe 30+ minutes later and there were pieces of stick all over the carpet. I was surprised to see my older girl, who is usually not the mischievous one, had pulled down one of the bundles, Col De Dame, and had herself a snack. She doesn't even (usually) like sticks! But apparently these ones called to her. 

All I could find were two small pieces. I am going to clean them up and put them in my root riot set up. Once I removed the damaged ends I will have a one node cutting and a two node cutting. I've had good luck with this method with small cuttings so I am hopeful at least one of them will root.

Sadie knows I am frustrated and is hiding in the living room. I'm not mad at her, I'm mad at myself. 

Dumb me.

Sorry about your cuttings. Silly animals.

Great photo.

I find that my dog is very interested in the figlets I have outside now.  Not interested in anything else in the yard, just the figlets.  I have caught her many times standing there for minutes on end just sniffing the little trees.  Maybe she can't figure out why trees smell like cat pee???

Ditto Nichole, sorry about your cuttings.  Crazy dog, couldn't chew up a Brown Turkey, could you?  : )

Oh that's painful Nicole, especially since it's Col de dame

Over the winter, the dog took off with two of my trees and chewed up a third.  I found the two and replanted them.  Two weeks ago, the dog took off with a 3 gallon Beer's Black I had bare rooted and split into three trees.  I found all three pieces the next morning (I'm not sure how long the roots were out of water), but the main tree was pretty badly chewed up.  The next day, while I was potting up the Beer's Black, the dog was crunching on something for 30 seconds before it came over to me and spit it out.  It was a rock.  Last night, I potted a Pastillier.  This morning the Root Pouch was torn up, growing mix was everywhere and the tree was just sitting on the deck.  I am still looking for my pruning sheers and my grafting knife.  Stupid dog.

I know. Still feeling a little sick over it. Before I found the tag I was going through all my other cuttings saying "Please don't let it be.... "
and then I said a dirty word.

[QUOTE=james]Over the winter, the dog took off with two of my trees and chewed up a third.  I found the two and replanted them.  Two weeks ago, the dog took off with a 3 gallon Beer's Black I had bare rooted and split into three trees.  I found all three pieces the next morning (I'm not sure how long the roots were out of water), but the main tree was pretty badly chewed up.  The next day, while I was potting up the Beer's Black, the dog was crunching on something for 30 seconds before it came over to me and spit it out.  It was a rock.  Last night, I potted a Pastillier.  This morning the Root Pouch was torn up, growing mix was everywhere and the tree was just sitting on the deck.  I am still looking for my pruning sheers and my grafting knife.  Stupid dog.[/QUOTE]

Bless your heart for loving that dog!

Oh that made me laugh

And the show must go on - everything is cut and prepped and ready to root. 

Added some blueberry cuttings and tomorrow I'll add some currants. And that'll do me for rooting things for a while.

do dogs like figs?

[QUOTE=elin]do dogs like figs?[/QUOTE]

Mine love them

first thing my puppies learned. never ever never go into papa's study that smells like cat piss. papa will start yelling and jump up and down like a monkey. they broke out of their play pen few times, but i've been lucky. they didn't mess with figs.

james my partnets had a dog that ate all the irrigation pipes, pool pipes, electrical pipes and allpipes in generals.
i dont know why he liked chewing on them.

anyhow 2-3 trees are nothing compared to what they went through with that dog.
we even tried castration but he kept on going chewing plastic stuff.... maybe your dog will respond better with that :) .
it was funny looking at my dog with that plastic round hat on him after the surgery- looked like i was trying to root somthing on his head .
anyhow he ate that too finally.

Nichole,

Sorry to hear about your cuttings, but as a dog owner/lover, I admit, I had to smile.

Have you had success rooting blueberries in the cubes or are you just trying this for the first time? 

Nichole,

    We all learn the hard way. I had a friend with two lab pups. He discovered how they liked to play with all his little orchids. I had a parrot who liked greenery and gave one of my orchids a good trimming. And every parent out there knows that two-year-olds can move with lightening speed, especially when it involves one of your prized possessions. Good luck with the salvage job.

The pruners have been found, but the knife is still MIA.  Stupid dog.

My older dog chewed only negronne last year or when he want to lay under the tree in summer, he chewed a spot out so he would have shade but stopped since then.  Now the little girl has chewed some healthy branches, but only the tips so far, she seems to have stopped but they really love roses, she only has chewed on the dead wood so far but she destroyed a paw paw then saw i was angry and chewed it to the ground.  Now she seems to be taking only branches from the ground after pruning so we will see.

As soon as I read the title I knew what the thread was about. My late lab/mastiff mix did a number on one of my figs, an apple tree, some thorny raspberry cuttings, aluminum siding and he tunnelled through a lath and plaster wall when he decided he had been gated in the kitchen long enough. I'm long over the damage, but I still miss that dog.

Cats of course are never a problem.

Devil Boy with some Sal's Corleone rooted cuttings from last year - they all survived. :)

[QUOTE=Figaro]Nichole,

Sorry to hear about your cuttings, but as a dog owner/lover, I admit, I had to smile.

Have you had success rooting blueberries in the cubes or are you just trying this for the first time? [/QUOTE]

First time I've tried. I will let you know how it turns out.

[QUOTE=AaronT]As soon as I read the title I knew what the thread was about. My late lab/mastiff mix did a number on one of my figs, an apple tree, some thorny raspberry cuttings, aluminum siding and he tunnelled through a lath and plaster wall when he decided he had been gated in the kitchen long enough. I'm long over the damage, but I still miss that dog.[/QUOTE]

That sums up life with dogs. They get into trouble but we love them all the same.
I'm over it today. We're enjoying some time in the garden.

Young leaves taste a bit like celery.

   
I have had  some really bad luck with a Pug . I had ordered 5 sets of cutting from Jon for the foundation, as well as most of my eBay purchases from last year  i had them all set up nice and cozy. We had my sister-in-law, house sit while we went to Montana for early calving season. when I got back, i found out that her little dog had got into the back bedroom and totally destroyed 4 months of work. in total 73 cuttings lost . 

luckily, I managed to save 6 cuttings. But those are going to be ???Unknowns???? until they produce fruit. since their tags were lost  (Gnawed upon)   oh well there is always next year.

Hi Nichole!  I thought I'd check in with you and see how your experiment rooting the Blueberries using the Root Riot cubes went.  Was it successful?

BTW...That's a beautiful pic of your dog!

Princess was very interested in pulling up fig plants but 2 warnings of "leave it" cured that.  Tank never cared about them.

Mosby won't even eat a hamburger much less a fig twig. 
Nichole I sure hope your leftover bits grow for you.

The experiment was a flop. They needed more babying than I was willing to provide at this time so I pulled them out and tossed them into compost. It wasn't much of a loss for me as I needed to prune the blueberry bushes back so it was happening regardless. My online research told me it's possible to root this way, but it's hard. They're pretty temperamental. I may try again next season.

Here's a little update on the chewed up twigs - one of the two has roots so that's something, right? It's the next stage I find the most challenging though... we'll see if I can get the darn thing to live past the temperamental, bratty, stage (the humidity stage).

Good luck!

Despite the difficulties, you still manage to make great photographs, Nichole...

How well do the blueberry plants root in the root riot cubes. I am interested in increasing the number of plants that I have.

Your dog has good taste.

Dogs will sometimes gnaw the aluminum tags and allso pull them off.  It is good to sometimes triple id the fig.  Write on the pot, tag on a limb and a tag on the pot..  Nicole, if both of your gnawed cuttings, root, your dog may have done you a favor, hope for the best outcome :-).

well.. my puppies learned not to go into the study, but they are allowed in the garage. they chewed up Socorro Black, Niagara Black and St. Rita. one of the Socorro Black is a goner. they pulled it out and chewed pretty good on it. but St. Rita and Niagara Black is coming back nicely in 1 gal pot. stil have one Socorro Black left that is doing well.

While a little late on this topic, I know of a man in So. Cal that sells fig branches as dog chew toys! They must really like them.

All the animal pix are great.  It looks like fig folks take extra good care of their animals as well as their trees.

Yeah, your dog certainly has good taste.  I love how your pictures tell the story.  I second multiple tags.  I've had one chewed up myself. By my goat. lol  But I'm glad I had a second tag on the plant.

Here's another update.

Both of the dog chewed cuttings now have roots. The one on the right is getting cocky trying to grow roots into the air.
Greenhouse will be completed Monday and many will get potted up that day after work.

Nichole, I grew many with air roots. It seems like the atmosphere right above the cubes is just right for rooting.
"gene"

Hmmmmmm....dog saliva rooting hormone...I never would have thought! ;)