Eat Deal

NorCalVirgo asked:


My husband and I have a boxer/lab mix that we got from a shelter. He is approximately a year and a half. He has been through training already and does ok with standard commands, when he’s calm. He’s just very stubborn at times.

Anyway, here’s the deal. There are times when I am home alone with our dog and even if he’s calm and being lazy, if I turn my back to go to the restroom, go to another bedroom, do the dishes, etc. he will usually get something off of the dining room table or somewhere else, go under our coffee table and proceed to chew and swallow whatever he has gotten into. We have rawhides, kong balls, ham bones, etc. for him to chew & play with. We crate him when we go to bed at night and when we are out of the house. We walk him about every 4 hrs or so to go to the bathroom because we do not have a fenced in yard. We take him for long walks, short walks, play with him, etc. Nothing we do seems to change anything. Do we have to crate him everytime we go to the bathroom?????

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