Bark problem

[climber32]

I had a customer call me today with a weird situation. Their dog has been chewing and scratching at the trunk of a red maple. Just looking for some advice on options for treatment. I asked how long it had been going on and he said a couple weeks. I told him first of all he needed to put up some kind of temporary fence to keep the dog away from it, which would seem like a no brainer to begin with. All i could come up with was to do a bark trace and see what happens. I dont want to use any kind of wound sealer, i never liked
the stuff and dont want to trap moisture because of fear of fungus or rot. I am kind of stumped :msp_confused: and help would be appreciated. Asides from that the tree is suffering from anthracnose which i have subbed out to be taken care of. The tree needs to be corrective pruned but i dont want to touch it until the bark and fungus is taken care of.View attachment 298795View attachment 298796View attachment 298797

 

[treemandan]

Actually, it doesn't look that bad. After a few years it may be hard to tell it was ever damaged.

 

[KenJax Tree]

We got a call last year about deer rubbing the velvet off their antlers on the little maple trees they had. We couldn't really give a good answer other than shoot the deer

 

[TheJollyLogger]

Just shoot the squirrels the squirrels the dog is trying to get at and it should solve the problem. Or, considering the price of ammo these days, might be cheaper to just shoot the dog.

 

[climb4fun]

we dont get red maple out here but we do get silver leaf, vine and big leaf maple. on any of those i would say protect the tree from the dog and schedule inspections before and after winter... for a small fee.