Puppy chewing walls!

[dianeholmes]

We have a bright active 9 month old lab from working strain parents. He learns quickly and is ball obsessed. He seemed to have got over his worst chewing stage or so we thought! He is back to chewing walls and is almost frantic about it. We distract him with play and training (which he loves) and he goes right back to wall chewing - we cannot spend our lives entertaining him, anybody any suggestions?

We are in danger of getting into very negative communication with him. We have 2 other dogs in the house, one the same age as him and a very elderly Dachshund who we seem to have fallen into adopting! He is crated at night and if we are all out but that is rare to be honest.

 

[JillA]

Teething? Has he got a good chew toy such as a kong, or even a marrow bone/massive rawhide chew?

 

[CAYLA]

As above, at that age his jaw is developing and his will feel an over whelming urge to chew, it can be very soothing during periods of anxiety or when experiencing pain/ache within the jaw and also helps strengthen the jaw to chew hard core objects.
As already suggested go out and get some fantastical mahussive bones and swap them frequently, freeze them to eep them fresh inbetween time.

 

[Cahill]

many years ago we had a puppy that licked/chewed plaster,i was informed something was lacking in the diet,bought something and it stopped almost within a couple of days.
sorry I can`t be more helpful but it was a very long time ago.