put them in a place that the dog cant get into. My sister has the same problem with her black lab and she baught a rack that hangs on the wall worked well no bitten shoes lolz
If you’re talking about biting the shoes when you’re NOT wearing them, then just put them away in the closet and close the door. If you’re talking about when you have your shoes on and you’re trying to walk around, then spray some Grannicks bitter apple on them and she won’t bother with them anymore.
i had the same problem… your best bet is to just keep them locked up in the closet. I lost nearly my ENTIRE collection in one night when he was a puppy. I think I cried for 24 hours straight… Sad, but true. Maybe it was the universe’s way of telling me I had too many shoes. =]
if you have a habit of just kicking them of and not putting them away(like i do) then try putting some special spray that when you dog bites into the shoe i will taste horrible.we had the same problem with our dog and after that spray she doesn’t even touch the shoes
Don’t allow access to shoes, and train an alternate behavior. Dogs do what is reinforcing and if you teach the dog that it is more reinforcing to do something else, then he will stop biting shoes. But, if he gets reinforced more for biting shoes, (everyone around him gets excited, there’s a lot of attention paid to him, etc) then he will keep it up.
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put them in a place that the dog cant get into. My sister has the same problem with her black lab and she baught a rack that hangs on the wall worked well no bitten shoes lolz
September 6th, 2008 at 11:47 pmLuvsdard
If you’re talking about biting the shoes when you’re NOT wearing them, then just put them away in the closet and close the door. If you’re talking about when you have your shoes on and you’re trying to walk around, then spray some Grannicks bitter apple on them and she won’t bother with them anymore.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:56 am~Amerz~
i had the same problem… your best bet is to just keep them locked up in the closet. I lost nearly my ENTIRE collection in one night when he was a puppy. I think I cried for 24 hours straight… Sad, but true. Maybe it was the universe’s way of telling me I had too many shoes. =]
September 10th, 2008 at 3:59 pmlaney
if you have a habit of just kicking them of and not putting them away(like i do) then try putting some special spray that when you dog bites into the shoe i will taste horrible.we had the same problem with our dog and after that spray she doesn’t even touch the shoes
September 12th, 2008 at 9:20 amMisa M
Don’t allow access to shoes, and train an alternate behavior. Dogs do what is reinforcing and if you teach the dog that it is more reinforcing to do something else, then he will stop biting shoes. But, if he gets reinforced more for biting shoes, (everyone around him gets excited, there’s a lot of attention paid to him, etc) then he will keep it up.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:56 am