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When will I be able to enjoy my belongings again?!

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3AndADog · 10/11/2021 12:51

So pup is 5.5 months old. She bites/mouths/runs off with ANYTHING she can get in her mouth. As a result our lounge is empty - no toys for the kids, no shoes, no books, mugs, anything - everything has to be on kitchen worktop. No rugs or cushions on the sofa, she’ll chew on those too. It’s depressing me! Everyone has to be on high alert if they have anything on them - kids drawing at the table and can’t drop a pen/rubber/piece of paper or it will be destroyed. The dog has plenty of her own chews and toys of all textures - wood, yak, plastic, squeaky, rustly, soft, rope. She has blankets and bedding of her own. I am trying to train her ‘out’ with a treat whenever anything goes in her mouth that shouldn’t. At this rate we won’t be able to have a Christmas tree 😩
Will she grow out of this? She’s definitely teething, she has red raw gums at the moment.

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GuyFawkesDay · 11/11/2021 22:13

The more we react to out 5 month old with contraband, the more the treasure has "value" and is harder to retrieve. It's taken me ages to train the kids and DH to not chase and just ignore the fact he's stolen whatever it is, just walk to the tub of dried sprats and get one and ask him to sit. Say drop, drop sprat, & in the intervening moments retrieve the item and make mental note to not leave it wherever he got it from.

Luckily he's not an eater of whatever he has wombled. Though some socks/pants have returned with bite holes 😆

He will now drop on command. Sometimes. 100% with a sprat though. All hail the irresistible stinky dried fish.

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