Quicksilver, those are great suggestions! You always have super advice.
Yes, the leather is bad for him to swallow, or even chew on. Most of it is vegetable tanned, I'm sure with plenty of not-so-nice chemicals, and some of it is alum tanned which includes lots of salt. And this is all to say nothing of the financial damage he could do to us if he happened to get ahold of any finished products.
We have yet to try a penny-can for any training, so we'll see how that works. I especially love your idea involving putting the leather on the edge of a coffee table. LOL, I just hope the penny-can noise is horrible enough - Nikko sees everything in his world as a toy, and is scared so far by almost nothing. Even rocks are still toys that need to be tossed around and chewed on, but at least now he's realized they're not actually food.
You give me great hope though when you say he may hopefully actually grow out of it at some point as well.
Does anyone else remember what age your puppy was when they stopped being a puppy-vacuum?
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