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    Chewing: Plus Training Tips
    Chewing: Plus Training Tips
    Chewing: Plus Training Tips
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    Chewing: Plus Training Tips

    By Kim Campbell Thornton and Buck Jones

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    This Simple Solutions book is dedicated to topic of chewing, one of the dog's favorite pastimes and one of the problems that cost dog owners the most aggravation and money. For owners of mouthy puppies (or adults), Chewing offers excellent way of extinguishing the problem through redirection, rewards, and providing other stimulation (toys, games,
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCompanionHouse Books
    Release dateDec 18, 2012
    ISBN9781620080658
    Chewing: Plus Training Tips
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    Kim Campbell Thornton

    Kim Campbell Thornton has been writing about dogs and cats for twenty-five years. She’s the award-winning author of more than two dozen books, including Careers With Dogs: The Comprehensive Guide to Finding Your Dream Job and The Everything Labrador Retriever Book.

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      Chewing - Kim Campbell Thornton

      Why Do Dogs Chew?

      They gnaw on knickknacks, suck on socks, chew on chair legs. Their destructive power is roughly equivalent to that of a minor atomic weapon—at least, that’s the way it looks when you discover it. Stuffing pulled out of sofas, new designs nibbled into wallpaper, drywall exposed, wood floors destroyed. All this, while brand-new chew toys lie in the rubble, still pristine.

      What causes dogs to chew and chew and chew? And how can you channel their chewing constructively?

      Dogs chew for many reasons. Young dogs have a physiological need to chew. Chewing helps them to exercise and develop their jaws. Six-week-old puppies have a set of baby teeth (your veterinarian may refer to them as deciduous teeth). Through the process of teething, all the baby teeth will eventually be replaced by permanent teeth. Puppies start to lose their baby teeth when they’re six to seven months old, but permanent teeth don’t fully come in until dogs are about one year old. During this time, puppies chew a lot. Chewing helps relieve the pain of teething and is a perfectly normal part of puppy growth and development. One solution to help relieve teething pain is to freeze an old wet washcloth and give it to your pup to chew on.

      Puppies also go through an intense

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