This morning, i woke up to my laptop charger completely chewed up & destroyed. Thank god Joe has another for his laptop that fits mine. We try hard to keep things off the floor & keep plenty of toys to keep her entertained. But it isn't the first time she's done this. She has a thing with chewing on wires which not only is annoying, but it's dangerous & concerning as we don't want our dog getting electrocuted or starting a fire. We have a lot of wires to television, phone chargers, fans, cables, etc & some we can't hide anywhere so they are exposed. & caging her at night is a completely different story & out of the question, because she gets mad & poops in it every time we put her in it regardless if we just had her outside to go or not. She's now a year old. We can't have her doing this all the time. She gets good exercise, & has plenty of toys & bones to chew on, so i really don't understand why she continues to act destructive. Advice?

Hmmm not sure what to say on this as Yuki is crate trained, shes never whined or had a problem with her crate nor had any accidents in it. As for the wires, we put these plastic coils that my mom got from Ace Hardware really cheap to protect them from getting chewed on. They're super long so and we have about five of them that go around all the TV and cable wires and Yuki hasn't touched them since ^-^

This all depends on the dog, how you train them, and the exercise you put into them. Koda never chewed, Ro chewed once. Koda is almost 5 and Ro almost 2, and neither are crated. Most people seem to have experienced their dogs acting up the most around 8 months to 18 months, though I haven't had this issue and I really can't tell you how I dodged the so-called teenage years or destructive habits most huskies have. Both our dogs we had the time to spend the first 2 months home with them at the least to really work on training and whatnot, since Jarod did not work when we got Koda and I did not when we got Ro, and aside from dinner dates or movies pretty much were with us 24/7 the first few months home, which probably had a lot to do with it since most people don't have the option of being home that much. Do you not have an area that can be dog-proofed to secure her in, like a kitchen? I know a lot of people here when they first wanted to test having their dog outside the crate confined them to the kitchen.

Have you also made sure to make her crate a happy, positive place? If she chews wires, I wouldn't have her running around free, even if she poos.. Poopy dog is better than electrocuted dog.

That is true but we never put her in her cage as punishment or anything. N we always keep plenty of toys in there, she just gets mad at us i guess? lol

My youngest Mika hasn't yet, she will be 2 in January. One day she pushed or something so hard on the crate door she bent it and got out, then chewed up some worthless junk. The main issue I had was she chewed up the connector for the brand spanking new heated mattress pad, not even got to use it once! To get to that HIDDEN connector, she chewed up the blanket, loose sheet, and fitted sheet and then the connector. There are only at least 3 deer antlers, squeaky toys, rope chews, and other stuff around, but she got that connector. Now my other furkids, no they aren't chewers at all. I used to leave cali out when it was just her and ever had an issue.

If that happens to me, I'm gonna go crazy looking for another charger. I went out today for about 6 hours and I realized I did not close the baby gate that lead upstairs and my rooms door were open, chargers own the floor. Guess what I found when I reach home? Nothing! No mess.. Lycan only hid his kangaroo rib rack under my pillow, that's it and he is only 7 months old. He knows not to touch things that he doesn't own. It's good that I have Titus educating Lycan. Titus used to chew up everything when he was 5 months till 9 months old. After that he stopped. Lycan follows whatever Titus does, that''s why I don't have to worry about things like he chewing the wrong things. Thank god!

I have issues with Willow chewing but I have learned how to teach her to curb this on certain items. When I first got her, she went after our shoes every time I turned around. I learned a trick to put the item she desires on the floor and stand there and wait til she goes for it. When she does, I block her. The key is to keep blocking until they give up and ignore the item. Do this everyday until they never go for that item again. It worked great with the shoes. I can leave her alone with a pair of shoes all day and she doesn't touch them now. This doesn't solve the chewing issue completely. She finds things randomly every once in awhile, but if she fixates on a particular item, I just do that trick and it seems to work for us.

I lucked out. Nanook is somewhere between 1 and 2 and the the only things he's gone for are my dumbbells (he gave up on that pretty quick).Oh yeah - and he tried to pick up my 6 year old daughter's Fur Real dog but dropped that idea real quick when she told him to Leave It.