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I just signed up and this is my first post...
I have a male boxer who just turned 3 years old. He's great and I love him to death. Vegas likes to chew on furniture. This happens when we are gone from the house for extended periods of time (I have 2 other roomates). We all have fulltime jobs so he is in the house alone from about 8-4. Sometimes I come home and the house is fine, other times all the pillows of the couch are all on the floor one of them has been ripped into, with stuffing everywhere. This has happened over the past year or so, and I bought some sour apple stuff so that he won't want to do this to the couch.
Oddly enough this hasn't worked and he continues to mess up the couch. My roommate also has a dog, and during the day he is kept in his bedroom. He has a fairly large cage setup for him in the kitchen and for the time being I put Vegas (my boxer) in the cage during the day. Yesterday he went in ok. But this morning he didn't. He snapped at me pretty bad if I grabbed his collar and was Very stubborn and wouldn't budge. Basically at that moment I didn't even trust himto not bite me. Eventually he went in the cage. I also tried using a baby gate to keep him in the kitchen a while back, but he can easily knock it over and get into the family room.
We got a new couch just this week, and I sprayed it down with sour stuff, I put a bed sheet over it, and sprayed that down. I also gave him a kong that I had froze over night and it had peanut butter in it. I thought the house would be fine, but I got home from work and everything was torn up.
Any advice?
I just signed up and this is my first post...
I have a male boxer who just turned 3 years old. He's great and I love him to death. Vegas likes to chew on furniture. This happens when we are gone from the house for extended periods of time (I have 2 other roomates). We all have fulltime jobs so he is in the house alone from about 8-4. Sometimes I come home and the house is fine, other times all the pillows of the couch are all on the floor one of them has been ripped into, with stuffing everywhere. This has happened over the past year or so, and I bought some sour apple stuff so that he won't want to do this to the couch.
Oddly enough this hasn't worked and he continues to mess up the couch. My roommate also has a dog, and during the day he is kept in his bedroom. He has a fairly large cage setup for him in the kitchen and for the time being I put Vegas (my boxer) in the cage during the day. Yesterday he went in ok. But this morning he didn't. He snapped at me pretty bad if I grabbed his collar and was Very stubborn and wouldn't budge. Basically at that moment I didn't even trust himto not bite me. Eventually he went in the cage. I also tried using a baby gate to keep him in the kitchen a while back, but he can easily knock it over and get into the family room.
We got a new couch just this week, and I sprayed it down with sour stuff, I put a bed sheet over it, and sprayed that down. I also gave him a kong that I had froze over night and it had peanut butter in it. I thought the house would be fine, but I got home from work and everything was torn up.
Any advice?