Dogs that chew

[zzzippper]

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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[litenlarry]

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...

 

[kozmic]

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.

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.

 

[arjay]

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...[emoji21]

 

[Brian41]

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.

 

[gm272gs]

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.

 

[VictorLouis]

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.

 

[gregintenn]

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.

 

[diamonback68]

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

 

[John Eilertson]

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.

 

[arjay]

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 [emoji32]

 

[Marshwheeling]

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.

 

[Bullet Bob]

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

 

[Texas40]

A chewing dog is usually a bored dog.

 

[pinduck]

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

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

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

 

[arjay]

The day that dog trotted into the living room carrying my then teenaged daughters undies is seared into her memory forever [emoji33]

 

[Bullet Bob]

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.

 

[quneur]

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.