Hi Greg My Brina girl, who is four, will still chew things up in the house if she is left in too long with out a potty break. It's like she gets stressed because she has to go and doesn't want to go in the house so she chews something to relieve the stress. We try to make sure that if we are going to be gone for quite a few hours that someone can come and let our dogs out to go due their business. Maybe your boy needs someone to let him out for a walk or a potty break while your at work. Good luck with him!! Stephanie Heeter and Brina ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bonawitz, Greg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Bernese Mountain Dog Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 5:55 AM Subject: low lying pillows, newspapers, and magazines are in danger!
> I have a 16 month old male Berner who has suddenly developed a bad habit. > My wife and I both work, and for months Chester "behaved himself" perfectly > while we were gone (we pretty much give him free reign in the house). In > the past few weeks, all of a sudden, if there are any newspapers or > magazines lying on the coffee table (in our family room, which due to it's > size we can't close off), we come home to find that he's shredded them > better than an Enron employee. He seems to know that it's bad since as soon > as we open the door and see it, he takes off. I've tried taking him over to > the shredded papers and telling him "no" as well as taking him to [OK] > papers lying on the table and telling him "no", but it does no good. We now > leave no papers on the coffee table, but he then goes after the pillows on > the sofa (smart little bastard!). > > I would really prefer not to crate him all day, especially since he was so > good for ~ 8 months of this (and day care was too expensive). However, our > family room has lost it's comfort with all of the pillows now stored up on > top of the sofa backs and no reading material on the coffee table while > we're gone. We have bones lying there for him to play with, which he does > do sometimes, but I don't know if he gets bored with it or what. Any > suggestions as to what I can try doing? > > Thanks > > - Greg >
