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03-09-2011, 10:12 AM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Aspen, CO, US
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| Ruger is a chewer Ruger is chewing everthing. He eats the buttons off the top of my hats, and today he chewed up an iPod earbud. He's chewed all kinds of things from remote control battery covers to his own brushes. He loves pens. He gets them apart, chews up the barrel and you pray you find the ink tube before it leaks out onto something. I give him things to chew on, cow ears, bully sticks, toys, but he keeps going back to things he shouldn't be chewing on. At 10 lbs he is pretty big, and can jump and climb better than most cats. He's about 1.5 years old, and this is driving me crazy. Any ideas other than crating him all the time? And, yes, I try to keep these things away from him, but you just forget. You use a pen and put it down not thinking what's going to happen to it. I'm getting better, but this is costing me real money. He also ate a dental bite guard, actually two of em, and they aren't cheap. Any ideas? |
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03-12-2011, 06:53 AM | #2 |
Action Jackson ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Maryland
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| Jackson tends to chew when he's bored. Like, this week it rained all day on Thursday and he did not get any outdoor exercise on Wednesday so after two days of being cooped in the house, he starts finding all these little things. Thursday night I swear I took like 20 things out of his mouth. First, it was a pen cap. Then it was a lid from a bottle of water. Then it was a plastic piece from a kids toy. Then he chewed off Barbie Doll's arm. I was like OMG! That's what happens when he doesn't get his exercise in... so I just wear him out. Generally, we go for a 1-2 hour walk per day and if we don't get a walk in, we go to the dog park. Then at home we play fetch outside for about 15 minutes (and we live on a STEEP hill so I make him run up hill). Indoors we do between 10-30 minutes of mental stimulation stuff, so clicker training every night. With just that stuff, he's content to lay around more and not find every little thing to chew. He only chews when he's bored. So anyways, I guess my point is, how much energy is he getting out during the day?
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