Chewing E-Book

Kim Campbell Thornton

• Herausgeber: CompanionHouse Books
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Serie: Simple Solutions Series
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Seitenzahl: 23

Beschreibung

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, and other distractions!). Author Kim Campbell Thornton also guides the dog owner to prevent chewing problems through every-day routines that discourage the behavior. Readers will be entertained by the humorous illustrations by Buck Jones.

Leseprobe

Nick Clemente, Special Consultant

Amy Fox, Editor

Michael Vincent Capozzi, Designer

Copyright © 2002 by I-5 Press™

Illustrations copyright © 2002 by Buck Jones

The dogs in this book are referred to as he and she in alternating chapters.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of I-5 Press™, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Thornton, Kim Campbell.

Chewing / by Kim Campbell Thornton ; illustrations by Buck Jones.

p. cm.— (Simple solutions)

ISBN 1-889540-82-X (pbk. : alk. paper)

eISBN: 9781620080658

1. Dogs—Behavior. 2. Dogs—Training. 3. Mastication. I. Jones,

Buck. II. Dog fancy (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) III. Title. IV. Series.

SF433 .T525 2001

636.7'0887—dc21

2001004822

I-5 Press™

A Division of I-5 Publishing, LLC™

3 Burroughs

Irvine, California 92618

Printed and Bound in Singapore

10 9 8 7 6 5 4

Contents

Why Do Dogs Chew?

When Chewing Becomes a Problem

Dog-Proofing Your Home

What Should Dogs Chew?

Teaching Your Dog to Chew Toys

Ways to Redirect Problem Chewing

Preventing a Chewing Problem

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 play period, and one of the things that puppies do in play is chew. It’s fun to chew things up and see the pieces go flying!