Dog who chews on wall corners, window Cills etc...?

Question

This Pup, who is only 9 months old is hell bent on eating the new House. Bitter apple and all that other junk is not a deterent. Kongs and Bongs and bells and whistles, he has it all. He has a lot Toys, but then i am told that he should not have too many because thats counter productive. He gets brought out in the morning for 25 minutes, and then when i get home for an hour, and then later at night. I cannot be at home all day and its convenient for the folks who have nothign better to do than sit at home all day. He gets lot of attention when I am home. He has been to Puppy School. I have tried it all. nothing is working.

Am not crating my Dog, Whats the point of having a dog if your gona lock it up in a cage like a canary.
Is there anything out there.

Anyone got any idea on how to help me help my dog become less destructive?

Too funny, the Crate lobby are just hilarious. "Dog wil lbe in a shelter", "Dog does nto get excercise:" etc...

1. My dog is the only thing I have since i have came back from Iraq. I have no family in the U.S - its just me and my Dog. Would rather slit my own wrists than give up on my dog. My dog is more important than a window Cill or a bit of Dry wall.

2. Excercise, I bring my dog with me everywhere, on foot. He goes to my Fire Dept 2-3 times a week. Goes Kayaking once a week. Comes with me for a Beer. Goes over to friends houses who also have small dogs whom her play with.
The moral court of know it alls who have their perfect little lives have their dogs in crates/gates - call them what you want. The question was - what can i do to to prevent him (while being in the house) from chewing on the walls. It was a question that was aimed at finding out somethign about training or some additional action that i could take. DID NOT NEED A SERMON ON PUTTING DOGS IN CAGES.

Answer 1

Well, don't know what to tell you. What is the point of having a dog when it is going to eat your house because it is unsupervised??????

The dog does NOT get enough exercise.

Answer 2

Yeah, aside from the fact that my dogs, Lola and Roxy, consider the crate to be their "space" and an inviting place, they go there to rest because they get exercised in the morning and at night for over an hour between walks, the dog park and playing with each other at home. They are a 3 year old and 5 month old pit bull mix, so they have a lot of energy. They sleep all day in there. As someone else mentioned you are not exercising them enough...the destruction is happening out of total frustration. I have to crate my foster dog, a 2 year old lab, for the same reason. But, consider this--what if he got into something that could hurt him or kill him? Wouldn't you rather keep him safe?

Answer 3

The purpose of having a crate, not a CAGE, is for the exact reason you are writing about. If you do not want to spend more time exercising you dog; throwing a stick, playing with other dogs,anything that will take energy out of your dog then you should crate it. If you don't crate it you are going to have a busy little beaver on your hands and pretty soon you are;
1) not going to have a house to come home to because the dog will have eaten ALL of it
2) your dog is going to eat something and require A LOT of money in vet bills. . . .or WORSE
3) your dog will move onto more important things(to you) to chew on.
By a crate and use it when you aren't there, I GUARANTEE you, you will see a difference in your dog within a week

Answer 4

When puppies are young, they are much like toddlers. You cannot expect them to know the rules and boundaries of the home if you have not taught them. A crate or a secured room in the house that is puppy safe will not give them the opportunities to get into mischief and cause owner frustration. To the dog, the house is his chew toy. While his a puppy he cannot reasonably be held accountable or expected to be trust worthy. A crate or a secured room would be the safest bet until he is an adult and more trust worthy.

Answer 5

we never liked crating our dogs, but we got one about 2 years ago, that did the same thing as yours, chewed the couch, shoes, socks, etc.

We ended up getting a crate for night time and during the day when we were not home.

It only took a couple days to crate train her to know the crate was not a punishment, and a simple command of "Room", and she went in and laid down.

After a few months, we gave her more and more time out of the crate during the night and for the past year she spends every night out of the crate, however during the day we do crate her.
We still catch where she chews up some socks and even underwear, so the crate it shall be during the times that we are not home.

Answer 6

you must be hard to live with if this is your reasoning.
Instead of letting the dog out for an hour, walk it for an hour. It wants pack attention, will learn to respect you. You'll still have to crate it....sorry, you don't understand the process, but you have a bored dog. Some dogs can entertain themselves with toys, some can't. You have a high energy, high maintenance dog. I can see this one in a shelter in a year.

Answer 7

Some dogs require a job to do. My sister's dog did that because she was confine to bathroom while my sister was at work she chewed on the bathroom wall and cabinet so the next day my sister decided to leave the dog out in the open house along with the tv turn on and no more chewing on walls or cabinets.

Answer 8

Take Red Pepper, and spread it on the things he chews on and he will get it in his mouth and it will burn a little bit. Make sure he has lots of water, so he can drink afterwards, but I am telling you he won't chew on it, because he will remember his mouth got hot when he did it. Good Luck.

Answer 9

my boyfriends dog did that too..
they put pepper or something spicy on the doors and furniture he was biting and he stopped. then they cleaned it off and the dog never went back to bitting it cuz he was scared that itd still be spicy : )
eventually they repainted and fixed everything so it didnt look all chewed up and he just learned not to go back.
he didnt like pepper at all :p

good luck with your puppy!

Answer 10

1. it's a puppy thing and most likely will be outgrown
2. you have completely wrong idea what crating is