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 But he puts down the toy and goes in search of other items. It doesnt matter what toy it's almost like ok I can have this so I'm going to find some thing else!!!! Then he piles all his treasures on a pile in the middle of the living room floor and lays on them. |
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Welcome to the joys of puppyhood 
Do you have a crate? |
| I feel for you!
Until he was 4 months or so, we would watch Barkley constantly. If we couldn't watch him constantly, he would go in his crate for a nap with a chew toy or 5. This started mostly because of potty training - so we could watch for signals - and because he'd never go in the house if we were watching. It was also a way for us to intercept as you are to teach him what is appropriate to chew and what is not. I know it's frustrating, but be consistent and watch him carefully. It will get better! Try putting him in his crate for a half hour to an hour with some toys. He might have a nap, or might chew on his toys for a little while. Either way, it will give you a break and ensure he isn't chewing what he shouldn't. Good luck and patience! Good thing puppies are so cute, huh?  |
| Yes that is where the little imp is right now!!! He keeps taking Cheyennes bones and she is not happy with him right now but she is also in her little "den" hiding from him. But what will happen is she'll get bored and want him to come out and play, so she'll sit in front of the crate and cry!!! |
| Actually you need to watch what he is chewing. I had young OES, Oliver, a few years ago who was a chewer until he was 15 months old and it literally almost killed him.
He liked anything leather but no interest in conventional chew-toys. I would get up in the morning and find the flat ruber sole from a shoe on the floor. He had eaten the entire upper and insole. One time he got ahold of a nylon briefcase I had that had a leather-wrapped nylon web handle. I looked for it one day and found that the handle was missing. The problem was that Olliver had swallowed it whole and since the nylon webbing was tough and fully sewn-through. It formed a solid intestinal blockage that he couldn't pass. Over a week of every kind of laxative and lubricant my vet could think of, poor Ollie got progressively sicker and sicker, until finally, an hour before I was set to take him in for surgery, he passed the entire handle, intact and undigested. Never chewed another thing but I wouldn't recommend the cure. I had another OES years ago who chewed plastic bowls and laundry tubs. That kind of plastic can be especially dangerous because it is completely indigestible but the chewed ends can be sharp and ragged and cause internal damage and bleeding. To this day, I will not have a plastic dog bowl or water bucket, only stainless steel. They're more sanitary, anyway. |
| From the mother of a sheepie pup that will chew everything in site, I would HIGHLY recommend you go to Petsmart and get you the largest bottle possible of Bitter Apple. I sprayed everything down with it - shoes, furniture, anything I did not want her to chew. We have a lot of antique furniture that I was worried about spraying with it, but we have used it with no effects to the wood. |
| I have used Bitter apple as well with success (Ty is a chewer), you do need to reapply it every few days though. |
| Oh yes Bitter Apple is a must with chewy pups. |
| Mine have chewed the lege on the kitchen set, a bed post and anything that belongs to me tht I don't remember to pick up. Bitter apple itself didn't work but I found a "deterrent spray" that did. They are 15 and 16 months old and still not out alone because the chewing comes and goes and one week one will chew the next week the other. |
| Certainly apply bitter apple, or another chew detterant to anything you don't want your puppy to chew. There really is no escaping their need to chew at that age, and they WILL chew anything and everything. Keep substituting, Make sure to take away things you don't want him to chew on (we learned that the heard way... shoe chewing is VERY habit forming!) and don't be afraid to give him a good smelly marrow bone, kong, everlasting treat ball, or bone filled with stuffing. That helped enormously with Pip's chewing issues when he was little. After all, who wants to chew on the woodowrk, when you're busy trying to get that last little bit of edible stuffing out of your favorite chew toy! |
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