Um, Doom? Did I Seriously Just Catch You With That In Your Mouth??

[Backward_Cinderella]

Ahhhhhh, young dogs... Its been a while since I had one, well, it was a long time between Booger and Doom... I forgot how exhausting it is having a puppy / adolescent dog around.
Doom is a little over a year, and a rather LARGE dog, think Irish Setter sized... and, well, he helps himself to whatever looks interesting, on counters, desks, tables, etc...
Most recently it was my back up pair of glasses, which happens to be the pair I'm wearing as of now while mine are being repaired from his last glasses assault. I've rescued my brothers toys from him, he's destroyed my shoes, books, eaten a spool of thread straight out of my sewing desk (how in the world he got it open I don't know!) even a bamboo plant found its way into his formidable jaws, and the plastic box Lucky's ashes came back in, (lucky for him he didn't puncture the bag, and I already had a new urn on the way).
In short, the dog will eat anything he can get his teeth on. I don't know what to do. I've tried kenneling him, I've tried a bottle full of pennies to be shaken when i catch him, I've even tried taking the object of his drool away and just flat ignoring it, but nothing has worked. I LOVE my baby Doom, and I won't get rid of him under any circumstances (as my father frequently suggests), but I wish I could trust him around my things.
Does anyone have any advice? Please and thanks, guys.

[Zoom]

How old is he? If he's able to get into this stuff, then he's proven he's not able to have free reign. Keep him tethered to you or in his crate when you can't devote all of your attention to keeping stuff out of his mouth.

Search for a thread on here about toy boxes--he sounds like a great candidate.

[Backward_Cinderella]

OoOoOo... Toy boxes? I'm intrigued... Will do. Thanks Zoom!
Doom turned one December twenty ninth.

[Zoom]

You're welcome. Sorry if the post came off as curt, I'm having issues stringing coherent sentences together today. :rolleyes:

[Backward_Cinderella]

Nah you're fine. My eyes hurt, but I'm not ready to go to sleep just yet. The shorter the better. :)

[Zoom]

I hear you there. I didn't go to bed until 4 am this morning, even contemplated staying up all night, but I had stuff to do today so I figured I should get some sleep. Looks like tonight is going to be another late night. My dogs hate me, lol!

[Backward_Cinderella]

Whoo! I wish I could still stay up until four AM, but I open the shop on tuesday thursday and saturday, which means I'm there at 6 AM. The rest of the week (Except sundays and mondays) I have to be there at 7:30. So staying up until 4 AM is out of the question unless I feel like whacking ears and tails off, which I don't.

[Zoom]

Oh I'm reveling in being able to do this. A scant three months ago I had to be at the boarding resort by 6am more mornings than not, so I'm well acquainted with that ungodly time of morning and having to go to bed before midnight if I didn't want to be late in the mornings.

[Backward_Cinderella]

I'm awful, I'm late almost every morning, but my boss is lenient. She understands that if I don't have a cup of coffee in the morning I'm useless. She usually forgives me ten or fifteen minutes. Once she sells the shop at the end of Feb, though, I'm staying with the new owner, and I have a feeling it won't fly any more. O.O

[Zoom]

Yeah that was usually why i was late in the mornings, lol! I'd hit the snooze a few too many times and then have to stop at the gas station to grab a donut and cup of coffee. It's just inhumane to expect me to deal with 100+ barking dogs with no coffee. Actually, it's just inhumane to expect me to function with no coffee, period. Maintenence has since found this out.

[Backward_Cinderella]

LoL it didn't take my boss long. The second day of work our coffee maker broke... I came in looking like a zombie, and she goes "Are you ok?" and I said "Serious lack of caffeine."
Hey, I've been drinking the stuff since I was 13... what do you want from me???
At least I've kicked the expensive starbucks habit. :)

[Zoom]

What's bad is that it always seems to be the same poor schmuck knocking on my door at 8:30am...this guy must think I'm a total nut job. He's never seen me in anything except bed head and a robe with a very pissed off look on my face. Actually he's lucky I'm coordinated enough to put on the robe at all...

Yeah, I finally remembered to dig out my little coffee maker and bought a can of Folgers. Much cheaper than spending a dollar every day on QuikTrip refills.

[Backward_Cinderella]

LoL
They came to get you? Wow, now that's dedication!!

[Zoom]

It's my apartment complex that is doing the rude awakening. :)

[MafiaPrincess]

Cider was evil in the form of a canine.

She was granted no crate bedding for a year an a half. She'd tear it, poke it, shred it. She'd trash dig, Unmake your bed, remake it her style. Steal my stufties off 4ft tall shelves. Counter surf.. Kissed the thanksgiving turkey from a standstill jump she's only 15.75" tall. Landed on the table and had to be picked up and taken away.. Stole kleenex boxes, eat clothespins. The list is huge. So huge that short of a sterile room with nothing in it and a hard floor.. she was trouble. 3 hour run at the park, hour long rollerblade, endless training sessions. She still caused chaos.

At 2.5 years old she was finally chilled out enough to have free run of my bedroom for an hour. It progressed over a few months to an entire work day when needed. She does nothing. She people watches on my bed all day. At 3 and some months she can be free in the house when people are home... she got into a bag of almonds and chewed up a clothespin last night.. but that's the only carnage in 4 months.

I have envied near everyone else for years. She literally had to be in the same room with me at all times.. or in a beddingless crate. Any freedom was too much for her.

I have a 9 month old puppy. He's crated while I'm at work, and at night time. But I can leave him and go shower with him free in my room no issues. He can run around the house when people are here. Gets into nothing..

So now I've had it both ways. I have an angel, and a reformed devil ;)

I think I'm rambling. I hope this helps in some way. Just know you aren't alone :)