[jessimarie83]

Aerie has been doing really good but recently my kids have been playing with him more and more and now he is just hyper all the time now.he is starting to chew on everything except his own toys. i have caught him chewing toys, shoes, my kids pajamas, blankets, and just about anything you can think of. i started putting him in the kitchen and putting up baby gates because of this and now he has started getting into the trash and shredding it all over the kitchen. i walked into the kitchen last night and he had chewed on one my my good rugs. i was so mad but i didnt get onto him. i took it away, told him very sternly "no" and put him in his crate. he didnt mess the rug up so i layed it back down and sprinkled them with ground red pepper, thinking maybe that would deter him from trying to do it again. he was good the rest of the night so i let him sleep with me last night. i got up this morning and put him in the kitchen and went to tend to my kids. when i went back into the kitchen there was my rug, crumpled up in front of his pet-bed and bits and pieces of it scatterd across the floor. apparently the pepper did not work. my rug is ruined. i amagain very angry at him. i have had to throw the rug away and my husband is very upset about it too. i dont know what to do. my husband says that if he continues to chew things, we will have to get rid of him. i dont want to but i dont know how to make him stop it. please help me. Aerie is very hard headed and resist any training i give him. i desperately need some advice..