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joettag asked in PetsDogs · 1 decade ago

destructive dog!!!!?

I have a destructive dog and I think the last straw is that he chewed off the zippers on my fiance's $300 coat today.. sigh... he is destructive even with his own toys.. he eats the eyes off even soft fabric ones and tears into them and apart...

Any ideas out there how i can get my dog to stop being so destructive with everything?

Update:

he has the hard rubber toys as well as ropes and anything you could think of... and he is a chihuahua... He gets lots of exercise but seems to love to rip out the eyes of anything... I have the sour spray and it really doesnt work with him so far.. He gets walked like a million times- he always wants to go out and i take him running for about an hour at least once a day!

Update 2:

OK so i am walking him 4 times a day... for an hour or more plus his usual times out to go potty.. and today he dismantled the ps3 and the bluetooth... he ate them! I bought him 3 new toys and he now has like 12 different rubber toys and 5 plushes... he has cow hooves and bones.. errr... I'm at my limit with him!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    yes for the love of god thats the easyest question ive answered yet lol ..

    for real .. this is the scoop

    dogs were all bred for something its there naturall instincts to do what they were bred to do...so for instance if you had a hunting dog youd want to try and take him hunting ... now on the other hand in todays day and age dogs are rarely used for there purpous in life they are just pets and if thats the case my advice to you would be TONS OF EXCERSISE

    dogs are meant to travel on foot thats what they do... and im not talking about a ten minuet walk around the hood im talking swimming for an hour or playing fetch for an hour ...

    key phrase to remember... 'A TIRED DOG IS A WELL BEHAVED DOG"

    him destroying things is him saying hes bored...so if you tire his little but out he will stop wrecking your things...

    this will help for real.. and a little advice for the future ... do research on your dogs breed before you get him try to find a dog thats suitable to your needs so you can meet his... some dogs have more energy than others so you have to be carefull...

    for instance i have an american pit bull terrier hes a very high strung dog so i excersise him vigerously every single day weather im tired or not he gets excersise and hes what some people have called "the best behaved dog theyve ever seen" ive heard that a lot...and i attribute it to me being ontop of his needs instead of worring about mine... good luck...!!

  • 1 decade ago

    Well, if your dog is large, an active breed, and under 3 years old you'll just have to wait it out. Most dogs are fully mature and start to calm down at 3, anything before that is teenage stuff.

    Excersize, lots of excersize - at least 4 15 minute power walks a day. 15 minutes is easy to do it's only 15 minutes but it'll make a big difference to the dog.

    Any of course, train yourself and your fiance to not leave $300 anything around a dog you already know to tear things up! It's not the dogs fault.

    Plus, redirecting can help - every time you find the dog with something it's not supposed to have, I don't care how valuable don't get angry or annoyed - AT ALL, just grab one of his toys and entice him to play with that, when he does praise him and quietly pick up what he wasn't supposed to have. Eventually he might get that chewing the wrong stuff up isn't that much fun because it doesn't get a reaction out of you and he'll chew on his own toys to get the praise.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You can purchase a pet kennel to put him in.Its kinda a good way to train him.I know the feeling haha i had to replace a whole wall because of my destructive dyno dog haha but a kennel will be a good investment. You can also purchase a spray that will keep him away from whatever you want him to.

    Also some Rawhides wouldn't be bad either.

  • Sangmo
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    What you let him have isn't tough enough - get him tough rubber toys, in a variety of sizes and shapes, and have regular tugs-of-war with him, he'll love it. He'll get to know what he's allowed to play with, but always keep anything valuable out of his reach. Sounds as though he'd also enjoy an occasional surplus bone from your butcher, a good big one. Don't do tug-of-war games with bones, dogs get serious about them, but let him bury it in the garden if he wants to.

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