Almost 1y/o Beagle Coonhound has started chewing on A LOT lately when left alone…
So our dog is usually well behaved when we’re around. We take her on long walks and exercise her before she’s left alone.
LATELY, at almost 1 years old now, her biting and chewing on our furniture has increased drastically. I’m not sure if it’s wood specifically that soothes her, but it tends to be the corner of objects; the bottom of the kitchen island, the cat tree edge, the arm rest of our couch, the window sills. Inevitably, she throws up every time she chews on anything but her toys that ARE left out for her + frozen woofs/kongs…
Trust that we’ve tried the crate since we got her at 5 months. To this day, she absolutely dislikes to go in unless we have treats on us during training. She’s a very stubborn dog, and might even need a behavioralist at this point.
Furthermore, she’s had daycare but they won’t accept her back until she’s older and has received more training after an incident where her paw got stuck in their fence from jumping excitedly.
Ideally, we’d love for her to accept being in the kennel when left alone in the house. What can be done to combat a dog’s resistance to confinement? Even when we left her in our larger bathroom, she managed to figure out how to escape.
She has a trainer, but this seems more into the realm of separation anxiety, which we’ve been doing our best to curb, or a second phase teething thing?
In search of advice, and concerned for our dog’s safety going forward. Also very tired of finding something destroyed and added onto our “needs repair” list.
WHAT DO?!?!