Canine behaviors such as mouthing, barking excessively, and jumping up on furniture and people are pretty much dogs being dog-like.
But since dogs live among humans, they follow our rules.
So, we humans train doggies to forget about canine behaviors, including destructive chewing of our stuff.
The rules of engagement - dogs chew their stuff; dogs do NOT chew human stuff.
The Ultimate Frustration Thank you very much - so you CAN prevent your dog from leaving teeth marks in everything you own and shredding the morning paper.
One more second with the author's cell phone and Simon the Cockapoo would have destroyed that critical part where charging takes place.
An accident waiting to happen is chewing an electrical cord and equally as dangerous, stealing and carrying a pair of reading glasses.
That chase almost ended in disaster! And the ultimate frustration - waiting around for a battery to show up in dog poop after the pup chewed the remote AND swallowed the battery.
The battery showed up (outside the dog) hours before surgery was scheduled to remove it.
The Best Way To Handle Dog Behavior Problems The single BEST Way to handle destructive chewing - PREVENT it from happening in the first place.
There are at least 7 ways to prevent dog chewing - the most obvious is to keep human stuff out of doggie reach (not as easy as it sounds).
And what if the bugger does chew your credit card into useless pieces of plastic? Then CORRECTING dog behavior problems is your responsibility.
You must get your dog to comply with your rules of behavior.