Is your dog a chewing menace
Like most dog owners, I’ve had some bad experiences when dealing with my dog, the chewing menace. He used to chew on my shoes, my newly washed socks, the drapes, not to mention the sofa corners. It was awful and in many occasions expensive. I had to buy other pair of shoes, i had to get other towels because the chewed ones looked terrible.
I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m not able to find remedies on why my dog is chewing and jumping on all the things in the house. I might never know why he does that. I established as my main goal to instruct the dog to chew the right objects, not everything he finds. I’ve quickly read some advices on this matter and decided to give it a shot. I observed the circumstances: what were the dog’s reasons to chew stuff, what was his attitude.
Dogs tend to get bored really fast if you don’t maintain a proper schedule during a day’s period. I played with him a lot, took him to regular walks, exercised some verbal commands and everything went just fine. He still chewed stuff in the house. I decided to hide the things that my dog could reach and chew. I elevated the wash basket, i hid my shoes. I started instructing my dog to focus on his favorite chew toy. At first, he treated the chew toy as something normal, and chewed stuff anyway.
I used some vocal commands to let him know that chewing the drapes or shoes was bad and instead i used the chew toy to lure him. I used some tricks ment to focus him to something else.
I managed to do it in a short amount of time. Now my shoes are safe and my drapes are tidy.
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