| Best thing I have learned, I learned here
I read it here, and then I saw it to be true, again and again. Think about what YOU are doing when the puppy is destructive.
Before I got my girl, the only Rottie that I had met was super destructive. I thought many were "land sharks" and Rott puppies would consume a certain amount of your house. So, I hoped getting a rescue who was 7 months might save me some. It turns out to not be the breed but the owner! When my Rottie does something destructive, I need only to look at what I have been doing. There has yet to be a time where I didn't find that it was caused by my actions, and was correctible.
Chewed the dust ruffle..enough exercise? Did we skimp on a walk b/c it was raining? Did I forget the Kong with the peanut butter? Did I get home a little too late 2 days in a row making her lonely? (she'll forgive me on day 1, late 2 days in a row, and there may be a price..) Always there is a connection to where I got sloppy. Fixing up my routines has been the fastest most reliable way to fix her behavior.
Some things are such common sense. If I didn't want her to chew fabric, why would I give her a rope or a towel to tug and tear. Changing the material of toys helped.
But most of all, a tired tired tired puppy is a good, not-eating-the-house puppy.:D  |