Chew Toys, Bones, and Other Toys Create Dogs that CHEW EVERYTHING! | Ep: #163
Chew toys train dogs to chew. Chewing is a habit, just like everything else in training. We form good habits and avoid the bad. If you don’t want a dog that chews up everything, including birds, sheds, bumpers, chairs, shoes, etc… Then don’t give your dog chews, bones, or toys for them to chew on!
It’s very simple… and something that seems to be extremely hard for folks to resist. By giving your dog the opportunity to chew things up, they will develop the bad habit of chewing. It is much harder to train out this habit than to not let it form in the first place!
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This simply isn’t realistic for a normal pet owner who would like a dog that is capable of work. As you said, if you allow free range and they chew on anything, that is no one but the owners fault. The extent I don’t allow chewing is on sheds, because I’m training to be a shed dog. But I tried the no chewing thing and it just wasn’t realistic. It allowed zero time for the puppy to be a puppy since we don’t just train. I still do 90% of what you teach, but I gave up on the no toys/no chewing.
Ok so if you messed up and did the other yway with a puppy how would you untrain this? We have a 7mo yellow lab. We gave him hella chew toys thinking that’s good while he was teething. Lol and now he has to keep busy with chewing…rocks, sticks, grass, toys, bones. Etc does fairly good on not chewing on our stuff. Thanks
I disagree…I think if a dog learns what is his to chew like beefpizzle or chewtoys then he is less apt to chew stuff that he shouldnt…I dont have bad chewing habits and I dont chew on stuff im not suppost to chew because my dad taught me what I should chew and what I shouldnt.
I will preface this by saying that I don’t train gundogs or bone hunting dogs so perhaps my opinion holds no water. I do train dogs of all shapes and sizes, most regularly high drive working breeds. Chewing is no different to any other natural drive.
Give the dog an appropriate outlet to avoid them from self-rewarding and chewing things they shouldn’t. This is regular advice to my clients and it works. Chewing is such a natural, soporific and healthy behaviour for dogs that I feel uncomfortable with the idea of removing it as an option entirely. Perhaps I’m missing your point here, but banning chew toys to prevent chewing is to me on par with banning running to prevent a dog from blowing a recall. Training, management and appropriate outlets to fulfil the dogs inherent needs and genetic drives seems much more reasonable.
But there we go!