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Chewers
I need help! Got a dog and she keeps chewing everything up. She wont touch rawhides, bones or other chew toys and such. Seems to like 2X4's, table edges, Christmas decorations, aluminum cans, beer bottles, remote controls, DVD's and other such. She is about 1 1/2 years old so I thought she would be getting over the puppy chew stage. Any help or suggestions?? Thanks in advance!
Posted By: reeltexan
Re: Chewers - 12/16/07 09:49 PM
You don't say what breed the dog is but I think you're down to two solutions: outside or gone. She will probably grow out of it but some take longer than others.
Posted By: Guy
Re: Chewers - 12/17/07 08:31 PM
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Seems to like 2X4's, table edges, Christmas decorations, aluminum cans, beer bottles, remote controls, DVD's and other such.
Sounds like you need to pick your house up a little bit. 
Honestly, keeping things off the floor for them to get into helps a lot, plus kennel the dog when you are not around.
For table edges, rugs, etc,...where dog seems to favor, get a little jalapeno juice and rub it on those spots, or put some jalapeno juice in a squirt bottle with some water and squirt that on spots she likes to chew.
Posted By: wanaduck
Re: Chewers - 12/17/07 09:33 PM
Guy is right about the kennel. When pups are crate trained so that they are kenneled at night or when you are not there to supervise them it will help. They are going to chew, especially until they lose there puppy teeth. Crating them will limit there ability to be unsupervised and having the opportunity to chew up things.
Just please don't do like some people that I know and leave the poor pup in a crate 22 hours out of the day. The first three months or so I will crate them if I am not around and if they are not in the crate they are with me. After that they seem to have learned there boundaries and can have a little more freedom. It is a lot of work but it forces you to work with the dog on basic obedience. Just my opinion.
Posted By: slipshot
Re: Chewers - 12/18/07 12:01 AM
There may be a one good point to it not chewing rawhide bones. Anyone that's been around a dog that chews those things knows when they pass gas it will make a skunk run for cover..........every action has a reaction I guess LOL
Any luck with a smoked beef knuckle bone? Those things are pretty stout so they last a while and my dog will wear himself out chewing it. But clearly if this is a problem at 18 months, and if you consistently correct (and replace with an approved chew toy) with no results, I am not sure what would help.
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Seems to like 2X4's, table edges, Christmas decorations, aluminum cans, beer bottles, remote controls, DVD's and other such.
Sounds like you need to pick your house up a little bit. Honestly, keeping things off the floor for them to get into helps a lot, plus kennel the dog when you are not around.
For table edges, rugs, etc,...where dog seems to favor, get a little jalapeno juice and rub it on those spots, or put some jalapeno juice in a squirt bottle with some water and squirt that on spots she likes to chew.
I find a lot of the misc. junk she has chewed on the steps when I let her in like the bottles and cans and boards. not sure where she finds the stuff.
First thing I did was buy a kennel and she goes in on her own at night when we go to bed and also when the last person is going out the door in the morning. When the boys get home from school they let her out but that is also when she does the most damage because they don't keep an eye on her. We will try the jalapeno juice on the table legs and such. Thanks to all!
Posted By: cajundave
Re: Chewers - 12/19/07 04:07 AM
They sell this sour apple stuff at pet smart and somtimes walmart that is supposed to stop chewing. it helped with my pups but did not stop it.
Posted By: reeltexan
Re: Chewers - 12/20/07 06:16 PM
A buddy of mine had a dog that liked to eat the bar of soap in his shower. He'd get in, get all soaked down, reach for the soap and......gone. He tried the soaking in jalepeno juice method. Dog liked the soap even better.
Posted By: Guy
Re: Chewers - 12/20/07 06:23 PM
Sounds like a very strange dog.
Posted By: bigfoot35
Re: Chewers - 12/20/07 07:18 PM
Chew-Gard, should be able to get it at PetSmart or a vet's office. Don't know if the dog has lots of toys or other things. If so, limit the dog to one toy or chew bone. If they have all sorts of stuff they can play with and chew on, they start to think that anything they find is fair game.
Posted By: Kyle7R
Re: Chewers - 12/23/07 01:09 AM
at first my lab wasn't interested in chew bones or rawhides in the slightest bit, she seemed more interested in stuff like the remote, my shoes, my cell phone, and even my socks. until i started using the raw hide as a "toy" using it for her to fetch, and tug-o-war. now she loves the bones. hasn't chewed anything she's not supposed to chew in about 6 months. we will be playin around the house and she will start running around for something to put in her mouth and will literally walk up to my shoe, or something and think about it, then immediately continue looking around until she finds her raw hide.
Posted By: baileydog
Re: Chewers - 01/11/08 03:00 AM
The hooves from the pet store are great. The good thing with them is they last a very long time. The are virtually impossible to completely chew up. That was all my dog was allowed to chew. He was a terrible chewer. He would devour a rawhide in one sitting. I like the suggestion of using it as a "toy"
Posted By: R.G.C.
Re: Chewers - 01/22/08 11:24 PM
Bitter Apple at petsmart is the best thing out there to help stop chewing. Spray it on what she is not to chew on and make her watch . Then open her mouth and do a small squirt on her tounge and she will be broke of that habit pretty quick. You pick up a white spray bottle around my dog and she hauls [censored] for the other side of the house. I just have water in the bottle now but she remembers it and has not it sqirted inher mouth in about 4-5 monthd now.
Posted By: Gdogg
Re: Chewers - 01/23/08 02:59 PM
Kennel the dog when you are not home and exercise the dog as much as possible. What type of dog do you have?
Posted By: Tx_Phantom
Re: Chewers - 01/23/08 03:17 PM
I have two words for you:
SHOCK COLLAR
Turn it up to 4 and zap the sh!t outta the dog when u catch him... when you leave stick him in the crate.
that'll learn um...
Posted By: Guy
Re: Chewers - 01/23/08 05:25 PM
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I have two words for you:
SHOCK COLLAR
Turn it up to 4 and zap the sh!t outta the dog when u catch him... when you leave stick him in the crate.
that'll learn um...
Don't you think that is a bit harsh, to put him in a crate then poke him with a stick? 
Worked with my wife,,,,,LMAO
Posted By: teckful
Re: Chewers - 01/24/08 08:48 PM
Thanks for this thread guys, I just logged on to post one of my own. I have a 1 year old Basset Hound that chew EVERYTHING, im at my wits end with him right now, he just got done eating a cell phone and I only left the room for 5 minutes, he got it off the coffee table. So I took him outside and tied his leash to a pole in the back yard, he ate the leash and is now barking at me in protest through the back window.
I tried the crate traning early on, but Basset Hounds have a high pitched whimper that does not stop if you ignore them. After 5 hours of continuous whimpering one night for the 5th or 6th night in a row I was done with crate training, but I will try the apple spray and jalapeno juice.