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My crazy young rottie is a huge chewer. She gets a frozen kong every evening (and sometimes during the day I give her a giant kong with american cheese pushed against the inside edges, and that lasts a while). But she doesn't actually chew on the kongs unless they have something inside them. She also loves to chew smoked knuckle bones and rawhide (yeah, I know, the dreaded rawhide), but even those don't last her very long (a couple hours at most, more like 1 hour). Marrow bones don't last even that long, either (she cleans them out and then I have to take them up because my other dog will smash them and swallow the shards). I got her an elk antler, but even after soaking it in broth she wasn't interested. Zero interest in Nylabones, besides the edible ones. She can finish the everlasting treat ball in about 20-30 minutes or less, even when made more difficult by positioning the treats differently.

Any thoughts on sturdy chew toys that aren't destructible/consumable? Ideally it would be something she could chew inside without causing a mess. It would be awesome to be able to get her to chew on Nylabones since they seem to last for ever, but even when she was a puppy she wasn't interested. Is there a way to train her to like them?

We have two basenjis.  They are brother and sister who are
9 years old. They are crate trained. They are only in the crate
when we are not home.

Our next door neighbors have just gotten a new puppy.  It is
driving my two crazy.  They have chewed up the plastic tray
in the bottom of their crate.  They are so active in the crate
it is moving across the floor. This is a new behavior which I
think is cause by the new puppy crying while the neighbors
are not home.

When the puppy is in the backyard we have to watch our
two who try to dig under the fence.  We have limited their
time outside if the puppy is outside as well.  We  play with
them often and they seem happy. They play with each other
while in the house. I'm afraid they are going to hurt themselves
in the crate.

Any advice is welcome.

I have an almost 9 month old golden who has recently found the taste of shoes. He has roam of my room while I am gone and while dad is working in his office, which hasnt been a problem for the last few months. He hasnt chewed anything but his own toys before and has never touched anything in my room previously. The only change in our routine was the start of classes this week so unfortunately I have been gone longer and the last two days I have come home to nibbled on shoes.

Both times it was only one shoe and the first time i thought it was just because they were furry slippers but tonight he chewed on the back of a tennis shoe. So is it just not enough exercise? or could it be something else? I am thinking of dropping him off at my work, a boarding kennel for daycare on the longer days, but would like to rest easy knowing my shoes are safe when he's at home. Any help?!

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Hello,

I have a Shiba Inu named Jackson. He is about 7 months old. I would like to note that I am also pregnant and it is really important to me that we sort out the provlems with my dog before I have this baby.

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Problems:

1) While we are away or out of the house Jackson will find any books or papers he can reach (including anything he can reach by climbing the furniture, etc to get to it) and tear it to shreds. Some things as big as a telephone book. If it isnt paper he will go for the garbage. Even if I put a bag of garbage up on a counter he will reach up and pull it down and rip it apart. This is not an easy thing for a shiba to accomplish. he is only 20 lbs not a big dog so he has a great deal of effort to go through to pull stuff like this down. It seems there is always a mess when i come home. He looks guilty as he knows hes done bad and I put him in his crate but it keeps happening.

2) sometimes when we are at home with the dog, we leave the front door open to our fenced yard so the pup can go out to play or come in as he pleases.. he has a habit of stealing things from inside like shoes or other items and taking them out to the yard to chew since he knows he will be in trouble if we catch him chewing it inside.. this is a huge problem as sometimes we dont notice until items have been sitting in the rain for a period of time.

3) when we have guests or when even just myself or my husband come home jackson gets excessively excited and jumps up onto us. I have tried using the command 'sit' to distract him and i have also tried rather roughly pushing him down but neither seem to be setting in to him that jumping is bad. its the worst when my mother or grandmother comes to visit he is so excessively excited that it appears that he has absolutely NO self control at the time. he cant calm down he cant listen. he has to be physically restrained and calmed for a number of minutes and even then he only calms to the level he would normally greet me at.

4) when i walk him he is a puller. i have tried some methods of snapping the leash back, not allowing him to walk ahead of me and such and after 10 minutes walking and reminding him like this he does calm with it but i have to keep on doing it periodically the whole walk.. and as soon as next walk time comes i have to almost start over completely.

5) I have tried teaching him to sit using a snap command and he does get it, he will do it if he is focused so i know that he understands the command but if there are distractions his mind is totally unable to focus on me.

6) he thinks running away when i say 'jackson come' is a fun game. at night time ill want to go to sleep and he refuses to come inside. i have to call him for over 10 minutes - he is fast so i cannot chase him down and dont wish to - sometimes i have to lure him with a squeaky toy just to get him through the front door.

SO lots of these issues will be a problem when there is a newborn. thankfully shibas dont bark so he wont be waking anyone up but pulling during walks, ruining items, not listening, jumping up, are all a hazard to a newborn. He is never a violent dog. He isnt super cuddly but he is very loving it seems he is just a huge BRAT.

I would like to learn how to properly discipline or train him. I must be doing things incorrectly.. my husband things if we start to hit the dog when he is bad he will learn but I disagree. I fear he will become aggressive and that I cannot accept with a baby on the way.

any advice is highly appreciated.

Last Christmas my fiance and I decided a dog would be a welcome part to our family and adopted an adorable chocolate lab mix from out local animal shelter.

Over the past 7 months we've come to love him but I'm worried we're at the end of our rope with his chewing problem. Let me start off by saying I've read through the tagged entries and read over all the comments on the previous chewing posts. All the advice given to previous posters was wonderful and I honestly just wish I could find something that worked for my dog.

My fiance and I have both had dogs in the past with various "puppy problems" but neither of us has experienced something like this. Our dog is now over a year old and his chewing seems to only be getting worse.

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Thank you in advance to those who took the time to read. Even if you don't think you can help, I appreciate your time.

We're having serious problems with Lacey, our 5 month old pit bull. We're at a loss at this point on what to do. She's destroyed into the quadruple digits of our belongings, and we are lower-middle class to begin with. We've given her everything she needs, she has toys, a bed (well, up until tonight), vet care (recently 130 dollars) and goes to the dog park every single day that it doesn't rain. The basics and beyond are covered for this dog.

She started peeing on the floor after being potty trained, and we found out that she had a UTI. Cost us a pretty penny. It continued after her antibiotics. We discipline her; she just does it more often. Then when we leave the house, or even the same room, she destroys something. Its gotten totally out of control, to the point that we fear that our couch or curtains are next. She's already gotten to the blinds and the carpet...and we rent, so we are in deep trouble with these, and there's no security deposit, it'll all come out of pocket. She's destroyed probably half the things my son owns.

<b>We cannot crate her. This is absolutely not an option for us. </b> Not only does it worsen the anxiety she does have to the point that she'll soil herself and the crate with absolutely no care of the consequence, but then it magnifies her bad behavior. She'll pee on the floor as soon as she has all 4 paws on the floor, even if she's gone straight outside. Not to mention, the noise she makes in the crate is so ungodly that the cops have been called.

I don't know that she has clinical separation anxiety, because she doesn't bark incessantly (anymore) when we leave, and she doesn't <i>always</i> destroy something (she used to). It does happen most often when we can't go to the dog park (they lock it up when it rains, it rained for the last two days), and even though we took her outside to play, she gets depressed when she can't go. You can see it. Sometimes she seems to be in melancholy moods, such as last Saturday, when she peed on the floor 4 or 5 times and destroyed something (at this point, its all blending together). Then she laid in bed and looked totally abused for hours. For no apparent reason.

We don't know what to do. We don't want to get rid of her, because she's a pit and wouldn't survive in a shelter, and I'd be hard pressed to find a rescue for her. We've invested months into this dog, and a lot of money. But we have no idea what to do. Any ideas?


EDIT: Something I didn't mention: I don't work, I'm home with her constantly. I'm not "with" her constantly, a lot of times I'm upstairs and she can't come up where (no puppy-proofing whatsoever, and the cats domain is up here) so I'm not with her all minutes of the day. That, and she only goes to the dog park for an hour a day, its not like she's there so much that she's more dog-oriented than people. If anything, she's way TOO attached to me for being home so much.

Hello,
Who has the best dog toys ever? Especially for super-chewers?

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Hi, Everybody! I'm in need of some advice. Before I begin, here's some background information on my boy: Rudy is an almost 6-year-old miniature schnauzer. He was rescued from a puppy mill a year and a half ago, and we have had him a little over a year.

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Thank you in advance. And if any of this is too off-topic, mods, feel free to let me know and I'll edit accordingly.

I just adopted 4-month old Bella from the animal shelter. I know she has boxer in her, but she looks like she might also have a little lab in her. She is a hyper little dog. I try to take her to the park when I can, or just on a long walk. I've managed to train her to sit, but I'm still have trouble getting her to focus. Dog obedience school starts on the 16. In the mean time, I'm trying to encourage her to chew on her own toys. I found some techniques that included treat dispensing toys, or even rubbing peanut butter on her toys. Has anyone had any other successful techniques besides beating the dog within an inch of her life *sarcasm goes here*?

Hi! I've got a quick question: what puzzle toys do you suggest for an under 10-pound dog who is very smart, loves treats, and loves to chew?

He's eating his toenails right now.

Also... Does anyone here crate multiple dogs together? Two small breeds in a medium kennel, two medium breeds in an extra-large kennel? My boyfriend and I intend on getting more small breed dogs. At the moment I'm leaning towards getting a single larger crate and either putting the pups in together, OR employing the divider the crates come with to turn one crate into two.