chewing

[aquarian215]

So when do puppies grow out of the chewing stage? When does it stop being a puppy thing, and start being a behavioral thing? Dudley is almost 9 months old now (as far as anyone can tell), and he chews on everything. We try to keep stuff off the floor, but this nearly immpossible with children. But he chews up all his toys, literally eats them, tears them up. He has eaten his food dishes, I have to go get some metal ones now, he has started on his bed, pulling all the stuffing out. We are working on" leave it" and" drop it", leave it works ok, but not always, and drop it only works if I have a treat, and then he wil eat the treat and go right back to what he was chewing on before, or find something else. Is he still going through a teething stage? Is that past now? Any suggestions as to what to do? Or is this just something he will grow out of?

[aquarian215]

Anyone?

[keekers]

i think ive read sometimes it can be almost 2 years!!!!! does he get plenty of exercise where hes too pooped to chew? the only toy lucy has not destroyed are those hard plastic but you can squeeze them squeakers. anything else is gone in 5 minutes. how about those really hard bones for outside- like knuckle or whatever to keep him busy.. keep doing what you are doing though- they go through so many phases that first year...

[aquarian215]

he does get a couple walks a day, one long one at night, and we play fetch, but he doesn't quite get the concept, only once in awhile will he willingly give up the ball, yeah we have tried all kinds of toys and bones, even the "indestructible" ones, ha, gone in 2.2 seconds. I need to work on drop it, not quite sure I am doing it right, since most of the time we end up prying an object from his mouth cause he won't drop it and the last thing he needs is to eat a toy car, I can imagine the harm that could do.