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Old 11-19-2011, 07:14 AM   #5
Teresa Ford
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CHEWING, on furniture is best avoided by teaching very young puppies NO, then giving them a toy and saying Good Toy. With that being said, and we all know it already anyway , What can we do to make Gracie and Katie Rose stop chewing on the bed rail and cabinet in the bed room ? The reason they do this is it has some reward, and nothing bad happens when they do it. Unlike the professional trainer Victoria you probably do not have a motion activated camera or speaker system to catch them in the act of chewing, when you are not in the room. So you can not cue them with a NO that seems to come eeriely from a box on the chest. So you might try : 1. close the bedroom door. 2. put a gate across the bedroom doorway. 3. Spray furniture with bitter apple (be careful this can fade or damage some surfaces) 4. lightly coat wood with petroleum jelly and sprinkle heavily with red pepper. 5 Rig up an alarm system of bells, so you can run in and save the day. 6. Hide in the closet and shout No when they chew. (this last one might work but, was ment as a joke.) Good Luck and update us later, So what you learn can be passed around.
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