Doodle of some kind?

Chewing is enrichment. My dogs chewed until the day they died at 15. A small fortune was spent on bulky sticks and beef tracheas over their lifetime. They enjoyed it.

She's a 75 pound furry toddler with no impulse control. Plan accordingly.

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Anonymous wrote:Feel you. Our dear mutt went through that phase where just such random things were mauled - she went through about 5 of my kids retainers that my kids left sitting around as well multiple pairs of eyeglasses that were left on nightstands - not the kids here, but mom and dad.

She's also good at quickly counter surfing pizza, sticks of butter, meatballs, etc, etc.

Knock on wood, but nothing seriously expensive in quite some time - the meatballs were just the other night. I'm sure she enjoyed them.

YES, retainers. The current count at our house is 2. But shoes- its gotta be at least 6 pairs. She ate a pie that was cooling on the counter a few weeks ago, a clean sweep of the entire thing, minus some crust at the bottom. Socks- countless.

When you catch her, how do you correct? I tend to shriek and then look at her and she's so damned cute so I melt... not sure if I'm doing a good job

If you’re catching her chewing something she has already damaged, you already lost. You don’t have to put her in a crate but you can’t leave her unsupervised around that stuff. Gate off the kitchen or something.

so how do you correct? And when?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Feel you. Our dear mutt went through that phase where just such random things were mauled - she went through about 5 of my kids retainers that my kids left sitting around as well multiple pairs of eyeglasses that were left on nightstands - not the kids here, but mom and dad.

She's also good at quickly counter surfing pizza, sticks of butter, meatballs, etc, etc.

Knock on wood, but nothing seriously expensive in quite some time - the meatballs were just the other night. I'm sure she enjoyed them.

YES, retainers. The current count at our house is 2. But shoes- its gotta be at least 6 pairs. She ate a pie that was cooling on the counter a few weeks ago, a clean sweep of the entire thing, minus some crust at the bottom. Socks- countless.

When you catch her, how do you correct? I tend to shriek and then look at her and she's so damned cute so I melt... not sure if I'm doing a good job

Our orthodontist joked that she was going to hang up a photo of our dog in her office thanking her for increasing their bottom line. Yeah, our dog hasn't done too much with shoes - she did like my UGG slippers and got a pair of those and did a number on them. They were still wearable, so I sucked up the chew marks and a piece or two missing.

I made a caprese salad for dinner, left for a minute and came back and she selectively scarfed down all the mozz and left the tomatoes and basil!

Yeah, try to correct with some form of no and a squirt of bitter apple - that's if we catch her in the act. There are far too many times that we'll show up and there's only a bit of evidence left, like a butter wrapper or piece of crust.

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Anonymous wrote:Feel you. Our dear mutt went through that phase where just such random things were mauled - she went through about 5 of my kids retainers that my kids left sitting around as well multiple pairs of eyeglasses that were left on nightstands - not the kids here, but mom and dad.

She's also good at quickly counter surfing pizza, sticks of butter, meatballs, etc, etc.

Knock on wood, but nothing seriously expensive in quite some time - the meatballs were just the other night. I'm sure she enjoyed them.

YES, retainers. The current count at our house is 2. But shoes- its gotta be at least 6 pairs. She ate a pie that was cooling on the counter a few weeks ago, a clean sweep of the entire thing, minus some crust at the bottom. Socks- countless.

When you catch her, how do you correct? I tend to shriek and then look at her and she's so damned cute so I melt... not sure if I'm doing a good job

Our orthodontist joked that she was going to hang up a photo of our dog in her office thanking her for increasing their bottom line. Yeah, our dog hasn't done too much with shoes - she did like my UGG slippers and got a pair of those and did a number on them. They were still wearable, so I sucked up the chew marks and a piece or two missing.

I made a caprese salad for dinner, left for a minute and came back and she selectively scarfed down all the mozz and left the tomatoes and basil!

Yeah, try to correct with some form of no and a squirt of bitter apple - that's if we catch her in the act. There are far too many times that we'll show up and there's only a bit of evidence left, like a butter wrapper or piece of crust.

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Anonymous wrote:Feel you. Our dear mutt went through that phase where just such random things were mauled - she went through about 5 of my kids retainers that my kids left sitting around as well multiple pairs of eyeglasses that were left on nightstands - not the kids here, but mom and dad.

She's also good at quickly counter surfing pizza, sticks of butter, meatballs, etc, etc.

Knock on wood, but nothing seriously expensive in quite some time - the meatballs were just the other night. I'm sure she enjoyed them.

YES, retainers. The current count at our house is 2. But shoes- its gotta be at least 6 pairs. She ate a pie that was cooling on the counter a few weeks ago, a clean sweep of the entire thing, minus some crust at the bottom. Socks- countless.

When you catch her, how do you correct? I tend to shriek and then look at her and she's so damned cute so I melt... not sure if I'm doing a good job

If you’re catching her chewing something she has already damaged, you already lost. You don’t have to put her in a crate but you can’t leave her unsupervised around that stuff. Gate off the kitchen or something.

Crate her for her own safety.

Eventually she’s going to chew something dangerous, not just frustrating. When she finds a pill bottle or something that fragments and slices up her innards, or something like a sock that creates a blockage requiring surgery, crating won’t sound so mean.

Your other options if you can’t handle crating is to tether her in the room with you. Leash her to the coffee table or other heavy furniture so she only has a 6 foot radius. Or block off rooms with expens and baby gates, but my 15 lb dog can leap over a 3-4 foot metal fence with ease so I’m sure a motivated dog the size of a retriever could too.

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Anonymous wrote:You should be crating a retriever. Ours is always crated when we can't supervise her even now that she's 3.

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We don't crate except when we are going out and we are leaving her home, which is not all that often. She's fine with crating, and very chill in the car, thankfully. I guess we could crate her more often when we are home but not engaged fully with her, but that feels sad...

Or use baby gates. We have one across the kitchen so ours can't get near the Christmas tree. We also close all bathroom and bedroom doors unless we are there with her.

Anonymous wrote:Feel you. Our dear mutt went through that phase where just such random things were mauled - she went through about 5 of my kids retainers that my kids left sitting around as well multiple pairs of eyeglasses that were left on nightstands - not the kids here, but mom and dad.

She's also good at quickly counter surfing pizza, sticks of butter, meatballs, etc, etc.

Knock on wood, but nothing seriously expensive in quite some time - the meatballs were just the other night. I'm sure she enjoyed them.

YES, retainers. The current count at our house is 2. But shoes- its gotta be at least 6 pairs. She ate a pie that was cooling on the counter a few weeks ago, a clean sweep of the entire thing, minus some crust at the bottom. Socks- countless.

When you catch her, how do you correct? I tend to shriek and then look at her and she's so damned cute so I melt... not sure if I'm doing a good job