when will the stealing stop?? does it ever?

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Our doddle is now 10 months old and lovely BUT when does the stealing things and taking them and chewing them stop??
He has rawhide and bones to chew, but any other toys get chewed up within a few hours. He likes to steal the kids soft toys and anything hard plastic to chew. He doesnt chew table, chairs, anything but just this ethings.
Does it ever stop? I tell the kids to put stuff away but tbh he still jumps up to get them off sofa, table and shelf.
DH is getting quite annoyed by it now and I feel Im forever up and down and finding him chewing something
I do tell DH that he has no way of knowing that those things arent for him but still doesnt help the situation.
He is walked daily and well trained in most areas. Plwease tell me it passes soon.

he needs to be trained not to do this

how?? I always tell him no and give him his toy, and he knows the command "leave" and "drop" which he does, but im pretty sure he thinks its a great game

SOunds like he needs more training.

What about solid rubbed bones? My old Border collie was a chewer and got through most of her toys really quickly until we got her a solid rubber bone and a solid rubber ball and a weird looking thing from poundstretcher which took her 2 years to destroy. She would get so caught up in trying to destroy these few objects she left other stuff alone.

What about running around off lead? Sounds like he has quite a bit of pent up energy. Maybe get the dc to play fetch- you get in recall training, the dog gets to run and he gets praised for bringing back the toy unharmed. plus you work on the leave and drop commands as well.

he gets alot of off lead training in the woods nearby, and infact his recall is spot on, unless their is another dog , and he loves a good game of fetch.
He have a rubber ball and a kong, but maybe I should look at a few more rubber things but tbh he just loves soft toys

mines the same with recall and other dogs lisa (he's nearly 8) it sounds like maybe your pup will grow out of this grabbing.i would put as much as you can out of reach to take away temptation.i remember doing this.
can he go in his crate/bed for a while if he does something wrong??

Seriously, the old Bitch would chew the solid rubber bone for hours, determined to kill the thing

Mum has kept it and whenever we go down it makes us smile to see

Especially remembering the outrage when she flung it in the air and hit herself on the head with it.

Try solid rubber toys and try and get everyone to not make a game of getting the items off him.

he does go in his crate if he does something wrong, but tbh we are planning to get rid of it soon, it is huge and he loves his plastic hard bed much more :)
Will look into big rubber toys.

Use the crate as a way of preventing chewing, not as a punishment. Using it as a punishment is pointless, the dog will not understand and it will not stop him chewing.

Supervise the dog at all times. If you can't supervise him, put him in the crate. That way he will never have access to something he isn't supposed to chew. If you do see him taking something that isn't his, do what you're doing and swap it for something he can chew. Also teach him a good 'leave' command so that if he picks things up that aren't his, you can ask him to leave. Never chase after him to get things back, always call him to you.

It will take a long time, especially as he's already learnt to chew these things, but eventually he will get the message and stop.

My lab won't chew anything plastic Lisa. It's gotta be something that was alive (bones or raw hide). I've given up buying anything else.

Food moistened and then put in a kong and frozen will keep her occupied for a fair while but it's not really a chewing exercise, more a drop and long tongue work out.

We have had to embrace the concept that EVERYTHING on the floor downstairs is fair game to be chewed. The dds are pretty good now at keeping all their toys upstairs out of reach. Likewise remotes go up up high. Shoes are put away in a cupboard.

A 10 minute session of clicker training provides a really good mental work out for my dog and I find she will settle down after a lunchtime session very nicely and not mither me. A top spot of advice I embraced on here was a sleeping dog doesn't chew, so two good off lead walks a day plus a spot of clicker training has really curbed the destructive chewing habit here.

I should say she won't chew anything dog toy that is plastic. A My Little Pony however..... om nom nom