This week my dog has eaten....

My 1 year old Pappy Poo, this week alone, has eaten: My invisalign braces -- top AND bottom My bluetooth headset for my cell phone and this morning i woke to find... my $400 eyeglasses. I went to sleep at 6 pm because I was DUMPING -- put my glasses on the night table, as usual. 5 am I heard very happy chewing going on... Maybe now I need a seeing eye dog instead!!!!!!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I'm sorry to hear about the chewing! It can be so frustrating. Ya gotta love the puppy years! LOL After my first one, I swore I would never do the puppy thing again (its like having an infant), but after 5 years, I missed having a "baby" in the house and got another one. I love my furkids more than anything, and would do it all over again, but the puppy stage is tough. My oldest dog was 3 before I gave her freedom in the house when I wasn't home or at night. Up until then she was gated into the laundry room. My youngest, who just turned 3, still sleeps in his "bachelor pad" as we call it. He loves it so much that he actually goes in on his own sometimes and puts himself to bed. Molly, my older one, is pretty good about not chewing things, but if she can get to a bar of soap, or to a box of tampons, she will steal them and hide them in the sofa cusions (don't ask me why she likes those two things LOL). And, gross as it is, she will take used tampons out of the trash can and eat them!!!!! I have to keep the wastebasket in the bathroom on top of the toilet so she doesnt get into it. Have you tried a product called Bitter Apple? It is sold in the pet stores and comes in cream or spray form. I prefer the spray. When they were pups, I would spray it on anything they showed interest in or attempted to chew and said "NO BITE!". One taste of that and they NEVER tried it again. Tucker (my 3 year old) actually started to chew on the back of a leather chair, I sprayed the spot, he took a wif (it smells horrible) and that was the end of that problem. I did taste it once (I was currious) and it truely is a horrible thing. I have to ask, what is a pappy poo? I am guessing part poodle, but what is the other part? Heather

Pappy = Papillion. Sort of looks like a long-haired Chihuahua. I forgot about Bitter Apple. I used it years ago with my boxer. I will go get some. Thanks for the reminder. Any ideas for getting him to stop pooping in the house? Grrrr again. Feisty Emm

I had trouble with my male going in the house too. My female was SO easy and was actually trained by the time I got her at 8 weeks, but the boy...geeze!! For awhile, I thought he was NEVER going to get it right. I honestly think its a boy thing...just like it is typical for human boys to take longer to potty train than girls, it takes longer for male dogs to be house broken. At least that has been my experience. Again, I kept him confined when I wasn't there to watch him. I lined the entire laundryroom floor with newspaper. That way if he had an accident, it was easy to clean up. Day by day, I made the area I covered with paper smaller until he was fully trained. We spent ALOT of time outside that summer and when we were inside, I took him out often, especially after meals. I always used the phrase "Go outside pee pee!" Then when he did his business outside, I said "good boy, go pee pee outside!" followed by lots of hugs and pets. Good luck with your pup!! Heather