How To Teach You Dog To Not Chew You Furniture At An Older Age

Every dog has some or the other bad habits hidden within itself. They have lot many ways to create nuisance in the owner's house. One of such ways is to chew anything that comes in its way.

Those things can be items like shoes, beddings, cushions, etc. Mostly they have the tendency to chew the nearby furniture. This behavior of the dogs is mostly common. They tend to behave in this way only when they are getting bored, stressed out or when they are undergoing a tooth ache.

Now, to avoid such habit, you will have to ensure that your dog gets regular exercise and some time to play as well. The quantity of the exercise and play are supposed to be according to the breed of dog you have. At the same time, you are also supposed to let your dog undergoing a training which gives constructive strength.

Such training not only will teach your dog to behavior properly and have good manners, but at the same time, it will also teach your dog to adept to situations as fast as possible. These kinds of training are mostly attractive and fun loving for the dogs. When the initial train is done then the other kinds of trainings becomes more successful.

It is essential that all such training is created in a way that your dog has fun and also becomes optimistic at the same time. Now, there are certain steps to get rid of the unusual behavior of chewing.

For such a bad habit, you will first of all have to understand that this behavior of chewing will not leave completely. This happens especially with those dogs that tend to have anxiety and dullness.

Therefore, you will have to understand that your dog will not be able to get rid of the habit of chewing totally.

The first step to let your dog unlearn this behavior is to give it a toy. When a dog is given a toy it starts chewing. This will actually divert the mind of your dog from the surrounding furniture. Not just toys, but even there are some other items which are made to chew.

The second method that you can use is to distract your dog. If you find your dog chewing furniture, give a loud aggressive clap and try to distract them. After distracting them, you will have to show them the right object to chew and that is the chewing toys.