7 month Pyrenees mix chewing and ingesting EVERYTHING!
Sahara is about a week from turning 8 months. 50% Pyrenees, other 50% heeler and border collie. She is excellent with not chewing on the things in her bathroom (where she sleeps). She doesn’t touch her bed, our towels, Rupert (her heartbeat toy that was once bigger than her), or anything that’s not on the floor. If I drop underwear or socks on the floor, she quietly steals it to her bed and eats it but if I put them on top of something, even if she can reach; she won’t go for them.
For context; she has routine. She has play dates with her puppy friends (used to be twice a day but now only a few evenings a week. Other times we try to have her play with her reactive older brother but she is not very interested. She has high energy but he has attacked her a few times and she is just very careful around him so she can’t even play and be herself around him. He has no friends so she is the only playmate that will even tolerate him). If her brother is the only dog available to play on a particular day, it’s not enough to satisfy her because she has to dial back her energy. She also has enforced naps twice a day for ~3 hours each. I take them on long sniff walks daily as well. She gets about 3-4 hours of outside time daily.
We are at a loss because she has not only chewed up ALL of her toys (bears, ropes, rubber toys, leather toys, “indestructible toys”) at this point the only thing we haven’t tried is metal toys lol. She not only chews them, she eats them. Luckily we haven’t had obstruction yet and she poops all of them out but I need to know when this phase will end.
We tether her inside the apartment and as of now, she has eaten through all of the leashes and I bought a metallic one.
She doesn’t eat our stuff though, unless she is frustrated (needs to poop, sleep or hungry). It goes in stages; whining, barking, then she moves on to eat the couch, blankets or anything she KNOWS she shouldn’t while making eye contact.
I typically take her out when I know she has to go but sometimes I’m in a meeting or I’ve already taken her 5 minutes ago and she wasted time scanning instead of pooping. We live on a 2nd floor apartment and in this heat it’s really hard to keep taking her out every few minutes. I also have 2 other dogs and it’s exhausting because most of the time they have to be taken out separately.
She can only eat Nyla bones but she loses interest quickly and I’ve read there’s risk of fracturing teeth. We have edible chews/bones but we can’t have them eat these around each other. Older brother is a resource guarder and older sister is a resource thief; both habits might be taught to puppy. The point of toys is that no one guards toys and they can keep them busy while we all hang out together, I don’t want to isolate her with a bone when she’s already away napping the majority of the day.
Please advise on what we should do with her while her siblings have toys in the evenings. And let me know if anyone has experience of this phase ending