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Originally Posted by SWEETBREW My boy was/is an avid chewer the only thing that worked with me, so that he would know what to chew and what not to was redirection. Also, if he got in a crazy puppy mood, where all he wanted to do was attack me, I would walk away from him, if that still didn't work I would shut a door between us for like 10 seconds then come out and redirect him to an approriate chew toy. He always waited on the other side of the door for me and seemed to calm down in that time frame. If I remember correctly this only took a few weeks till it stopped completely, and definitely got better during that time. |
Sweetbrew, what you do is working for us too. The thing that we've had to learn with this girl is not to participate in playing with the toys with her. That hypes her up and gets her focused on chewing our hands, feet, everything. Now I'm just giving her a toy to redirect and taking my hands out of view, talking to her, telling her what a good girl she is. Really has reinforced in my mind that each pup is different. Our last girl loved to play ball from a very early age and we used that to wear off excess energy. So I started that with this little one when we brought her home and it was leading to major mouthing issues. Hopefully we can play ball and retrieve a few months from now, just not now.