Looking for Ideas

[Mr.pacojack]

I wish I had that problem, a little bit anyway. My wife is always telling to go hunting and so is my boss and I don't have many laws to deal with( as far as hunting dogs).

[BlacktailStalker]

That just sucks.

[Redwood Coonhounds]

I would get a coupler and snap him in the corner... If the otherd get too close he can still do it... If that's the case get a field trial muzzle. Keep it on him until you see some of his behavior change around the house...

Only other thing I could think of would be to set him up with a shocking collar. Put him in a kennel/dog house with another dog, and watch him, when he starts to chew on it, shock the crap out of him. I did that recently with a young dog. He pulled the other dogs collar off and started eating it, I put it back on (still wet) and he went over and started following the dog around sniffing the collar, and I lit him up. The other dog still has that collar on today.

I had one that was terrible about collars, and digging holes. I sold him. He was a good dog too! I just can't tolerate idiotic bad habits

[radar]

How often does he get ran?

[007pennpal]

Maybe use metal chains for collars.

[freetrapper42]

I had a buddy whose dog was always chewing up the sprinkler heads in the back yard. He went out and sprayed mace on every one of them. The next time that dog grabbed one of those sprinkler heads he got a surprise he didn't like much. Never touched em again.

[radar]

How often does he get ran?

My bad I should have read the the topic more fully........Mr.Pacojack already asked...

[jkcasey]

When I was a kid we had a dog that would chew up any and everything, but he liked water hoses and cords. One day I was weed eating aroud the house and he went to chewing on the cord I was using. Long story short he learned his lesson about chewing and turned out to be a good dog for a growing boy. If his problem was boredom, he didn't seem to mind it so much after that. Hope you find a fix George.

[Mountainhound]

When I was a kid we had a dog that would chew up any and everything, but he liked water hoses and cords. One day I was weed eating aroud the house and he went to chewing on the cord I was using. Long story short he learned his lesson about chewing and turned out to be a good dog for a growing boy. If his problem was boredom, he didn't seem to mind it so much after that. Hope you find a fix George.

I learned my own lesson about electricity when young almost the same way cept not chewing. I was repairing frawed christmas light wire still plugged in Anyway my fingers turned black and I decided right then and there that being an electrician was never going to be in my future

[radar]

Mine was the dreaded tracking antenna, any dog in the box thats callar got to close
Oh and the destuffing of alot a things, like the pellow top of my bed,pointlessly bought dog beds, sleeping bags that i would put in the box for them to lay out on !!!!$$$

[ZeluvaRIP69er]

When I was a kid we had a Springer Spaniel that chewed on everything. My dad put tabassco sauce on the stuff he was chewing on and he stopped. Might work, might not. Cheap fix if it does work for you.

MAN! That is exactly what I was gonna say.

We use Hot sauce from Hell, that is the name, google it. I bought my dad a six bottle pack for christmas one year when we lived in CO. We moved 5 years ago, and we still have bottles from that same pack in the fridge for one purpose... Dogs that think they can chew on anything and everything.

We get a paint brush and go to town. From hounds to german shepherds to beagles to mutts the score is HSFH (HotSauceFromHell) 500, dogs 0!

[2ndhound]

Mr.Streepy I had a similar problem with collar chewing, The hot sauce didnt work for my worst offender so I went back in the ol memory banks and recalled this stuff called THUMBSIT from the olden days, was developed to keep kids from thumb sucking ( lil bro) needed the stuff, never found thumbsit but found its twin at wally world its called HOOF Stop the Bite , cost about 1.99 looks like nail polish bottle, dries on the collar, pretty water proof for months and tastes like lucifers arse, I took a lick after waiting 2wks just to see and my eyeballs bugged out, worked like a charm, still keep a couple bottles around for a touch up when she gets the munchies, you can find it in the nail care part of the store or maybe at a beauty salon?? good luck with the problem, better than an ear hole cheap too! Ken

[George Streepy]

2ndhound,

Some of the stuff I tried was pretty bad. When the mist got in my eyes and mouth it was horrific. I assume it is the equivilent to getting mased, and while your rolling around on the floor someone stuffed a turd in your mouth. The problem was how fast it washed off. That stuff sounds like it sticks around pretty well. That is the type of help I was hoping to get. Thanks for the help, I hope one of these tricks work. I have tried quite a bit, and was ready to just give up. Not get rid of him but to never put him in the box with collars on. I think that was a lot of the problem, I would hunt an area and if I didn't get one going I would load the dogs and drive around somewhere else. He was excited because we were in the woods, but hadn't really spent that much energy that day.

Thanks everyone.

[Tim Cook]

Could just be an age thing. I've had a few that would chew everything under the sun. Drove me nuts, Tryed a lot of things to make them stop, nothing really worked, by the time they hit two they were over it. good luck

[Emily]

I had one that needed something in his mouth as soon as he got excited. He took to climbing trees--would grab the branch above him and hoist himself up. He would also grab my arm when I went to pull him off a tree. He didn't bite me hard, but he would mouth me hard enough to leave me black and blue. I had to wear long sleeves when I handled him. I eventually learned to approach him on tree with a stick in hand and let him latch onto that while I handled him.
That dog also chewed through every tie out, even chains.
Hot sauce definitely did not work on that one--just gave him a taste for habanero peppers still on the plant!

I second the thought on checking his mouth for dental problems, especially on the gums.

Some of them do outgrow things like that when they mature. How old is he?

If you want to keep him, you may want to just manage the problem by keeping him away from the other dogs when they have their collars on, and learning not to leave stuff he could chew around.

Since he seems to like plastic, maybe you should offer him plastic. We gave our chewer blocks of ultra high density polyethylene that you can get at hobby shops. He gnawed on them all day and night making very slow progress. Didn't seem to hurt his guts any and helped divert him from chewing worse things.