"Beth In Alaska" wrote in message
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Its also dangerous as heck to chew cords and cables - so its something
that needs to be resolved. First thing is management. Belts, cell phones
and wallets need to be put up somewhere she can't get them. Books on the
bottom shelves can be blocked off (we actually put doors on our
bookshelves when Kavik was a pup). We basically doggie proofed a single
room and kept him in it when we couldn't supervise.




Oh I can soooo agree with this. We had an incident in August with our pup.
I knew he was in the pup chewing stage, so had gone around and made sure
that cords were out of his reach (he chewed through a harmless phone cord
once and that was enough). Then, the day after I was in a serious car
accident and not in a condition to move much or quickly, hubby had one of
his co workers come over with his lap top. they left it plugged in on the
kitchen table with the cord dangling and then went out to do something
outside.
Fortunately I had hobbled into the kitchen for something or other when I
heard a very frantic yelp and scrabling. I nearly died when I looked over
and saw Gobo with that cord in his mouth, just thrashing around on the floor
as the electricity surged through him. I moved as fast as I could to get to
him (which seemed to take forever, but was probablly a lot faster then I
should have been moving). I yanked that cord out of the wall and just held
the poor little guy... He just wanted to run off and hide for a while..
Thankfully he didn't have any long term after affects, though he's never
touched a cord or cable since then..
Oh that was a very very scary experience...

then not long ago, she started chewing on a piece of furniture... So I
invested in a bottle of Bitter Apple spray.. it's an anti-chew solution that
makes things taste really bad to naughty little pups.

I would definately suggest that you go around looking at your pup's
environment from his level (ie, get down on the ground) and see what
"trouble" they can get into, and then do everything you can to prevent it
before it starts.. move things, block things off, use bitter apple or other
solutions, and make sure she has lots and lots of toys to keep her busy.
Keep her mouth and her mind occupied. And she should grow out of the
chewing stage soon. Once all her teeth have come in, it should stop..
though you might also want to have your vet check her teeth. If she has a
bad tooth or other problems, that could cause an increase in her chewing,
too.. as her only means of soothing the ache. (we had a 3 yr old with that
problem, she still had impacted milk teeth when we got her, caused one of
her adult teeth to come in as a snaggletooth, and we had to go in and have
it removed. She chewed on all sorts of things she wouldn't normally have
chewed on because of that... soon as the tooth was pulled, all the chewing
stopped.)

Good luck

(oh, and the muzzle, it's ok if you are there to supervise, but any sort of
un necessary cords or collars or muzzles can be a safety hazzard when
they're not supervised.. what happens if she gets caught on something.. she
could struggle against it and strangle herself. might not be something that
happens every day, but it's a statistic you can avoid being on either side
of.)


Davina