Puppy chewing furniture

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Hello,
Our 14wk old pup keeps chewing furniture. Any tips on how to stop this? Tried yak bars, split antlers etc but table and chair legs seem to be preferred! Can distract her but she quickly just goes back to chewing furniture.

Many thanks!

Tabasco sauce on the legs of things she wants to chew!

There is bitter apple spray you can buy, at find it worked where sprayed but he just moved into somewhere else (dug up the corner of the carpet one night and chewed it).

When are they chewing? Crate train so you have somewhere safe they can go when you are in bed/out, the rest of the time watch them closely.

Make sure they have toys to chew and try to direct then to the toys, they need to be able to chew while they are teething. Our lab chewed until he was 18 months old then just stopped one day.

Crate.
Make stuff she chews either taste bad or out of bounds, its usually just teething, what breed? Are they known chewers?

A miniature schnauzer. If I give ever a food chew she’ll happily devour that. But worried we shouldn’t be doing that all the time. She’ll be distracted with a toy but after a minute will revert back to furniture if she’s not having having us play with the toy with her.

How much time do you spend training and playing with her each day? Are you making sure she has enough mental stimulation?

I have had a few fosters who were chronic chewers when they came to me, and I found that the easiest way to solve it was to make sure they were tired out mentally and physically, not the the point of exhaustion, obviously, but so that they are not bored.
The in between times they would happily lie down and chew a toy - rope toys usually worked best for the chewers, and I would put them in the fridge beforehand for the teething pups, but always have some out, chilled and ready, scattered about the house so a sort of constant rotation iyswim.

If they did then go for the furniture, I would say "no, that`s not yours" in a firm but calm, kind and patient voice (using the sort of voice you would to give toddlers guidance, iyswim absolutely not shouting, raising voice or sounding stressed or angry) and then I would hand them a toy and say "this is yours, this is your toy".

As soon as they started chewing the toy "yes! Well done! Yes! thats your toy" enthusiastically praising them. I dont clicker train, but I use "yes" as a marker, so same principle, and I have found that using "yes works brilliantly, and really speeds up how quickly they catch on.

I also teach "get a toy" as one of the first things with a new pup or foster, its easy to teach and in my experience helps bypass a multitude of problems, can`t munch a foot or table leg in passing if their mouth is already occupied!