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Okay good to know! No, she doesn't ingest any cardboard that we've seen she just loves to rip it up. It started when she was able to get loose paper or documents at her level so we tried to redirect her attention which seems to help but as you stated before, she now correlates that cardboard with tape she sees on the ground or the back of the couch because it can be ripped up. We have a gate that keeps her from getting the carpet but unfortunately the room she spends her time in the most is the living room where the couch is. We have to close the doors to the bedrooms so she doesn't get into things she's not supposed to. Do you think it's a good idea to keep her blanket away from the main room when we're gone then so she doesn't rip up the blankets that are covering the couch?

Thank you so much for all of the information, it was very helpful! The removal of objects we have already been doing but the couch unfortunately we cannot remove. We will try the brain training more in the morning instead of the evening to try and tire her out. We have been reading your course on the "leave it" and have been doing that with her all weekend. How do you use the cardboard as an outlet without having her correlate that with other things that can be similar to the cardboard? She was alone the other day for a full day and I think it was progress. The only thing she did was make a hole in her blanket that it on her bed and took off the blanket that's on the couch. Do you think providing her with a blanket on her bed that's okay for her to chew is a positive outlet or teaching her that all blankets are okay? We will serve trying everything you suggested, especially telling her to leave it and walk out the door for a few minutes. Thank you so much again for all of the advice we will try it and hopefully it helps!

Hi Adrianne thank you for the reply! The dog that likes to destroy (her name is Nova) she just turned 2 years old about a week ago and we've had her since June of 2019. She is a mix breed of mostly Husky but there's also Beagle, Belgian Tervuren and poodle. (We became more aware of what Husky mix's do when we found out her exact breed after a DNA test) Typically she's alone at the most 7.5 hours a day for one to three days a week. So typically she goes after things she can physically tear apart like carpet, cardboard, the back of the couch if she can access it and on rare cases, her dog bed if she notices fluff poking out. We used to set up a doggy pen for her but she either found a way to escape or howl when she couldn't escape. I haven't noticed any signs of separation anxiety other than the occasional pacing but she goes to sleep after she paces (the destruction happens much later out of the blue) My other dog is 3, his name is Loki and he's a lab, German shorthair pointer, boxer mix. He behaves fine when he's alone, mostly sleeps. They are together now, whenever they were separated (crate or play pen), that's when she started howling and trying to get to him. When we're home, however they act the opposite than when we're gone. Nova sleeps, and Loki wants to play and whines for our attention all day. We're trying your course on both of them and we've already seen a difference with Loki so thank you for that! I apologize for the very long reply as well lol. Thank you again for your help!

Hi, We have two dogs; one we got at 6 weeks and one we got as a rescue when she was 4 months. The biggest problem we seem to have is that the rescue always finds something to destroy in the apartment no matter what we do. We got a camera to see exactly when it starts and it's at the 3-4 hour mark (when her puzzle treat ball is empty) We've tried everything we can think of: crate training (she howls after the first 30 minutes without stopping), leaving puzzles and other interactive toys, walks in the morning. We ended up resorting to putting a piece of cardboard out so she goes after that instead of the furniture or any of our valuables (it's encouraging the bad behaviour I know!) Is there any advice?