Stop Dog From Chewing – What to Do About It
One of the biggest problems that most dog owners face, other than house breaking is keep your dog from chewing. Did you know that most any dog can find things to chew in a empty room?
Our first cocker spaniel chewed the front piece of wood on
our love seat, the fabric on the arm and back of our armchair and the arm of our love seat. I didn’t realize how much a young dog could chew, but over time, it really adds up.
Dog chewing is a normal pattern for dogs, since they associate eating with pleasure. One of the big reasons dogs chew is to relax. If you want your dog to be stress free, you want your pet to relax, but not at the expense of your living room, and house.
Dogs who chew have a destructive habit that needs to be controlled and changed.
Your dog may chew because he is teething, and just like with a baby it hurts (a lot). So give him something cold to ease the pain, like frozen rawhide bones. This is a very good way to begin breaking this habit. Just keep a few frozen rawhide bones in the
freezer.
Because a dogs have a short attention span, you can take advantage of this by getting 10 or 12 rawhides chews to freeze. The trick is to put five bones down, where your dog can find them. He will go from one rawhide to another, and chew on them.
Then in a few days, put them back into the freezer and set out another five.
Each rawhide will smell a little different and this gives him a variety of things to chew on without endangering your furniture or shoes!
Also provide your dog with lots of toys. You can never have too many of them and he will get a lot of comfort from them, even when you are not around.
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