Pesky Dog

[howzabout]

My neighbours dog keeps chewing up my son's footballs. Is there any sort of coating that I can put onto his next football to stop that dog from chewing it up?

[boxtops]

Put the football on elastic to stop it going into next door's garden?

[Redrum]

Depending how big the dog is, buy your son a football that is too big for the dog to get its mouth round...simples!

[tamborine]

wots your sons football doing with the neighbors dog? Rub garlic or lemon over the football.

[brenda]

Why is the football in your neighbour's garden -- go and play in the local park

[AlBags]

Any dog always seems able to puncture any ball!

[20SilkCut]

Dogs chew footballs...its a fact of life!!

Maybe your son should keep his football out of reach of the neighbour's dog...

[dizmouk2009]

There isn't anything you can put on the ball without making it unuseable as a football. Garlic might actually make the dog go for it more (my dogs love garlic and would quite happily through anything with garlic on). The best bet would be to ensure the ball doesn't go onto your neighbours properly (if that is the case, if not have a word with your neighbour).

[dizmouk2009]

*property

[momac]

Sorry,no solution,I used to have a neighbour like you,I moved house.

[madmaggot]

Are you saying that your neighbour's dog comes into your garden and chews the football or that your son kicks the ball into your neighbour's garden?
If it's the first, then ask your neighbour to adequately fence his garden against the dog escaping.
If it's your son kicking the ball over then he is the one who needs to be told to keep the ball within your own property. You can't blame the dog for playing with a ball that suddenly appears in his space!

[ganesh]

Why don't you answer??

[ganesh]

I agree with brenda and momac-pesky child more like!!