Video: Train Your Puppy Not to Chew

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Training your new puppy on what it can and can not chew is discussed in this free video.

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Hi! I’m Melanie McLeroy with Taurus Training for Expert Village and today we’re going to talk about puppies. So let’s talk about puppies and chewing. It’s very important to teach your puppy not to chew on inappropriate things for the sake of your furniture, your sanity and his health. Remember to set him up to succeed, don’t leave things lying about that are delicious to puppies, wicker baskets, rattan chairs all those things should probably be put away until your puppy is a little older. Oriental rug fringe is delicious. Now the best way to keep your puppy from chewing is prevention and supervision, but if you do catch your puppy chewing on the remote control, don’t rush over and punish him physically for it. Simply make a loud noise, so he drops it and then replace the remote control with something appropriate a chew toy, a bone, whatever. If you come home to the couch being chewed up then it’s your fault for not isolating your puppy and setting him up to succeed in the first place. Another thing that works for chewing is chewing deterrents. There are certain products on the market that can make the remote control or your eyeglasses taste really bad. Again if he tries the wrong object and then you give him the appropriate object to chew on. With chewing as with jumping on counters and other naughty behavior it’s very important that the correction seems to come from the environment. You don’t want the correction to come from you because number one then you become an element in the correction and when you’re not there he’s going to go for it and also because your puppy should definitely see people as good safe havens. So say your puppy is chewing on the edge of the sofa, you can make a loud noise, you can try shaking a can with some pennies in it, you can throw a book across the room to land next to him. Then call your puppy to you, so coming to you is a good thing and give him a bone to chew on instead. Puppies explore the worlds with their mouth. Chewing is completely normal behavior. We just need to teach puppies, when, where and what to chew on.

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Train Your Puppy Not to Chew

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