My ex-SIL rescued a golden retriever mix and his brother from a dumpster so we adopted him, name of Flounder. We would have taken his brother too but he was gone.

Well, Flounder was a chewer, especially leather. The (now ex) wife left a couple pair of her work dress shoes out and he chewed them. She bought new shoes and left them out as well. Guess what? He chewed them. The (now ex) wife got mad at him. You might being seeing a glimmer of why she is an ex-wife.

One night we came home and Flounder was drooling and licking his lips. I went in the bedroom and found red dye stains on the bedspread. After a little more investigation I found the (now ex) wife's pepper spray canister punctured and empty. Seems she couldn't put that away either. Flounder didn't chew much after that.

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30 years ago I had a Siberian Husky, raised from a pup..I constructed a dog house for him, he totally chewed the dog house to bit's...

Sounds like you probably made the correct choice when thinning the herd zzzip! With proper training you can cure a dog of most bad habits. The same cannot be said about some spouses.

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paws for friendship

Had a lab mix with a hard mouth that took years to correct that loved to chew.Rawhide chew toys usually kept her away from valuables,but that 3am gnaw,gnaw gnaw...

Not an ex-wife but my current one came home and found our Golden had eaten a pair of shoes. She just said good as I didn't like them anyhow and replaced them with a couple pairs or more.
Pig ears is what I gave him later and seemed to keep him away from shoes.

I had an ex wife who insisted in getting the dog in the divorce, then gave him away (to someone else) a year later.

I got away with my clothes and my books though. The clothes didn't fit her and the books didn't have enough pictures for her to understand.

I'm not bitter, though.

The OP touched on the answer. WHen my lab pup was hitting the shoes, I took an old pair of Converse and dressed them up. Made a paste of starch and Tabaso and coated the shoes.

No more shoe-victimes.

My lab would chew when he was a puppy. He was especially bad when we were gone for a while. I think he got angry because we'd left him. He'd drag everything he could from the basement out into the yard and chew it up.

Once, he got a Coke can and fought with it until he finally bit a hole through it. It was apparently well shaken by then, because most everything down there was covered in a sticky film when we got back home.

He quit after a couple of years or so.

My first wife left me and took the dog. Man, I missed that dog.

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In my several decades of dog experience I've come to the conclusion that most dogs go through a ''chewing phase'', till they're maybe a couple years old. It generally goes on for close to a year. I recall once I had a young Red Setter, and he did me the great favor of chewing apart most of my Senior Yearbook from HS. Got over it, though, after awhile. Gotta take the bad with the good, and I've gotten an awful lot of GOOD from my dogs over the years.

Out of a lifetime of dog ownership only one was a problem chewer.I remember leaving one time and she got ahold of my glasses and left the remnants in my office.Went for a new scrip and glasses and she did it again

I have had a lot of dogs go through here, and lost a lot of shoes. Glasses and sunglasses too. It does seem to be a phase. The ones that keep it up longer tend to prefer my favorite items. I think they are chewing in part for the same reason they like to lick my hands and face, for the salt.

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Not in jail.

Nature wouldn't have given me these big 'ol teeth if I wasn't meant to use them. Right? Right!

A chewing dog is usually a bored dog.

My dog use to chew but he switched to dipping about 6 months ago.

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ANgus likes to crew on empty 2 liter coke bottles. Makes a very satisfying crunch. Other than that his only real vice is noisin' abound where he don't belong leaving large debris paths and eating my daughter & wife's anklet socks only later to puke them up . I keep telling tem to pick the *^&% things up and he won't do it and more but they have got harder heads than Angus.

BTW I think Flounder is a great name for a golden mix rescue

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The day that dog trotted into the living room carrying my then teenaged daughters undies is seared into her memory forever

I had a friend who had to pay a lot of money to have his daughters undies surgically removed from his dog. Glad Abby doesn't have that habit. Regurgitating them would have been a blessing.

When my dog was young, she would chew on rocks. I kept having to take them out of her mouth. Now, she likes to chew on sticks she steals from neighbors dog while they're playing fetch.

You said ex, is Flounder also an ex or did you end up with him.

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Flounder stayed with the ex while I worked around the world. His health had been failing badly. Then she said he just disappeared from the yard one day. Odd, the same thing happened to our other dog, Jack.

We buy pig ears for my yellow lab.

You guys were right it took about four years for him to settle down. He's a great dog now. I never seen a dog chew so many bones in my life not even my rottie.

My rottie passed away in my misses arms. She grew up from a pup with the whole family
The day she passed my whole family showed up that night when we buried her.

Her last night on this earth my daughter gave her, her last plain cheeseburger. She loved ice cream and cheeseburgers. My dogs are spoiled.

I started readin' this... thinkin' a lil' pinch of "Redman".

My Wheaten chewed on the sofa, leather recliner and another chair. Very hard discipline 'big brown eyes' looking lovingly at you. Now she has a good size antler that she insists on pushing around the wood floors just when you're trying to hear something on TV.

Her next favorites are any cardboard box that finds its way to the floor and a orange Nylabone pretzel that she loves. The orange pretzel is great cause I now can see the landmines she leaves in the yard!

Same here, but I had a picture in my mind of a dog chewing a cud of Mail Pouch.

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Inconsistently consistent

Yep, that's why I have an ex as well.


Of my three Golden's that I have had, the first one loved to chew until she was 3 or 4 (shoes, socks, underwear, etc). The second also chewed but I discovered one day that he had an enabler. The Female Golden would pull those white short socks out of the clothes hamper, walk to where ever Sam was and drop it right in front of him. And then he would proceed to chew a hole in the heel or toe. I watched all of this unfold from the second floor balcony one day. Laughed harder than ever. The third Golden never really chewed much after her first year.

Oh, also, our first Golden (Sedona) also chewed a golf glove once. I found it in a pile of do-do one day while picking up her deposits in the yard. And, NO I never used that glove again. She swallowed it whole with the Velcro closure intact, had to have gone down scratchy.

When our current pair of Dalmatians were pups, we would leave them gated in the kitchen when we were away. I thought they couldn't get into trouble there.

Started to run the dishwasher one evening and...... nothing. Finally figured out one of the pups had chewed through the wiring harness! Had to splice at least 15 wires to get it going again.

From then on, we just kept a piece of 2x4 in front of the DW so the little ********* couldn't get her head behind the front panel.

What worked for me was to provide my puppy and later dog with plenty of things to chew on that were her’s and to praise her when she chewed them and to growl at her anytime she chewed something of mine. She is a smart dog and quick learner, and from day one wanted to please. She now knows which of her toys are inside toys and which have to stay outside and she knows what is hers to chew on and play with and what is mine to leave along. She also knows not to take her toys outside the fenced back yard when we go out walking.

It helped being home with her all day and never letting her get on the furniture or take anything off a table or chair. All her toys are on the floor or either put away for later. She has more toys than most kids, and after a few months just seemed to know what she could chew and what she could not.

Only problem with this dog is occasionally she likes to dig holes in the back yard, but I have several good shovels and it is currently easier to fill them in than to break her of the habit. LOL

My little rescue rat terrier (he rescued me, I think) was about six when he came to live here. He's never chewed anything but rawhide and rubber toys. I did have to get neighbors and relatives to stop giving him stuffed toys, however. When he got one he would shake it like a rat to break its back, then gut it. I got enough stuffing material to build a queen sized mattress.

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Oh well, what the hell.

She is sweet as pie and growing like a weed but she goes on rampages of tearing up stuff. We can't leave the bathroom doors open (chew the toilet paper all over the house) and I'm worried that it will outlast her 'puppyness'. She's got needle puppy teeth and will love you to death while tearing you to pieces. When she's quiet though, she sleeps in our bed.

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This is the reason mine no longer gets stuffed animals.

And you don't come off that way at all.

I got custody of my boy Otto in the divorce. The ex was(at least in this one instance)enough of a realist to know that she couldn't handle him & that he was definitely my dog. A day doesn't go by that I don't think of him & miss him.

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"Dogs that chew"

I believe it's because of a calcium deficiency.
Our dog chewed everything, till we started giving her a daily cheese slice for a snack.



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Bored & lack of enough exercise are usually why adults dogs chew - pups on the other hand - like children - want something to aid with the pain of new teeth coming in. Instinct is part of it as well. More exercise and more quality time with their human will normally cure that problem. Also helps if everyone in the family puts stuff away so the dog can't find it!! I like it when the wife gets something chewed, because it's usually her fault for not putting it where it belongs.

Pete

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Don't tread on me

Anytime a puppy puts her teeth on you yelp real loud like you have been injured and pull away. Young puppies play bit each other all the time and the signal one is playing too rough is a loud yelp. They learn if they play too rough other puppies won't play with them. So they understand that on an instinctive basis.

With a young puppy it should never be inside the house unless it is in a crate or in your view. That way as soon as it starts to mess up you can jump up and yell and stop the pup. They learn real quick that way. My dogs are at least 2 years old or older before they get the run of my house. By then I am certain they know what is theirs and what is mine.

However if you let you puppies run around loose out of your sight, they learn very bad habits that can be difficult to break if they go on long enough. By a crate and a book on crate training or try one of the Leerburg tapes. Leerburg has an enormous web site with thousands of free articles on training dogs. He specializes in GSD and Malloys, but his articles are germane to all breeds.

You can find expert advice on any aspect of dog training on that site, and his DVD’s while a little pricey are first rate as well.

Good luck and the sooner you get the pup corrected the better for both of you.

My Aussie used to love work shoes/boots, carpet, dress shoes, pillows, boat shoes, chew toys, any type of shoes. Now he 4 will get a toy and remove just enough of the stitching to get to the fluff inside. Also removes any legs, ears, bills, beaks and the little squeeker from the inside

When I was a kid we had a Dalmatian. One St. Patrick's Day I colored the tip of her tail with a green felt tip pen. I didn't put the pen away, she ate it, and pooped green for a day or two.

I had a Doberman puppy that chewed up the Class A flying saucer hat I wore home in uniform, she chewed up a nearly brand new Wilson outfielders glove leaving the rivets in her poop, someone mentioned giving her smoked dried pigs ears to chew on and keep everything else out of her range, that worked...she could eat up an ear in a day, same with them big ole rawhides...might take her a couple days on them rawhides...she really liked them smoked pigs ears.

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