Junior needs a bone?!

[Aphria]

Hi, I think 15wk old Junior needs a bone! We have a variety of chew toys (rubber bones, soft squeaky toys, ropes) that he'll chew and play with when we're playing with him but as soon as we stop he's straight over to chew on the corner of the hardwood coffee table! I had a Nylabone puppy antler for him but he was chewing bits off it in no time. Can he have proper bones yet? Any suggestions on what we can give him?

 

[Ranyhyn]

Is he raw fed?

If so absolutely, an appropriate sized bone would be good. We gave them frozen to our dog but that said as a GSD he had significant chewing power already at 16 weeks give someone like nutriment a call.

I am not sure what those would say who dont raw feed but honestly there's such scant meat on a bone but I'd still be cautious about maybe colitis or something like that.

Frozen carrots work well and mine also had wet frozen microfibre towels.

 

[Bellasophia]

re the furniture..an effective deterrent eg bitter apple spray ( to use on furniture items a dog likes chewing) ....helps to stop the habit continuing..
We used to use furniture polish on the wood and add some pepperoncino powder to the polish.The dog won’t keep chewing your chairs ,table legs etc...we had to do this when we had our rottie pup ,and later a mastiff..it worked very well.
Plus,they were given cow knee joints as I recall.
Some pups never chew the house( my poodles were angels) but when you do have a more assertive type of pup this method is worth trying.

 

[Lots of Gift Bags]

We got a tree root for Juno, seems to really satisfy her chew urges.
Like this one https://www.lordsandlabradors.co.uk/products/antos-natural-root-chew-medium

 

[CorvusCorax]

Mine is just going straight for the real thing in the garden RN lol.

Tesco does a knock of Nylabone that's gone down really well, even the vet mentioned how good it was!

 

[FinnishLapphund]

Don't feed raw, and have always had a basket with various gnaw bones available to my puppies/bitches. When a puppy wants to gnaw on something, it has, and have always seemed sensible for me to provide the puppy with something okay to gnaw on.

I've spent a fortune through the years on various types of gnaw bones for my bitches, basically anything from reindeer antlers, to vegetarian bones.