Never enough chew toys

Compared to all my friend’s puppies, Dobie chews the most by far. He can’t help it! Dobermans are known to chew everything they can get their mouths around. But I didn’t expect him to love chewing this much. It doesn’t help that he has a very determined personality. If I don’t let him chew the rug, he’ll sneak back to it when I’m not looking and try to chew it again. Thank goodness for bitter apple spray which deters him instantly, thus providing a correction for chewing an inappropriate item. The best way to distract/correct him is to replace the wrong item with one of his chew toys. Then praise him for chewing one of his toys and not the furniture. His favourites are the linked rings and ‘Mr. Gator’.


Bear stealing a kiss while Dobie naps               Rope toy = WANT


Putting up with his owners                              Mr. Gator, I'm too tired to play now