Oftentimes, it takes more than after-the-fact discipline or a grocery cart of chew toys to help a dog overcome destructive chewing. What also works though, if not in a better way, is what is known as a multi-prong approach to Jack Russell Terrier Training.

Puppy-proof your house. There are more ways than one to tackle this concern: store up rugs and carpets; store also out of reach anything that might get peed on (shoes, trash bins) or eaten or bitten (tissue, chemicals); remove or protect as well as you can cables and electric wires.

Limit toys. A destructive puppy will need only a few chew toys at a time. This way the puppy will not get confused with what belongs to it and what’s to you.

Safely confine your puppy. Get a crate with sufficient space for the dog to stand and to turn around, or a puppy gate at times that it is impossible to watch over the dog. It is important to introduce the puppy to his future zone of security and privacy through positive reinforcement, and he must never be placed in his crate as a punishment.

Add a lot of outdoor exercise to the dog’s schedule. Destructive puppies need to have one to two hours of engaging outdoor exercise daily. One step to solving the dog’s chewing problem is to train it to get a ball, Frisbee, or toy. Again, remember that if the dog has not completed its shots yet, it is better off not playing with other dogs.

One very sure way to burn the energy of your puppy is to let it play with a similarly vaccinated puppy.

Give your puppy obedience training. Training as short as five to fifteen minutes a day is actually enough. With immature, young, and hyper puppies who find it near-hopeless to focus on prolonged obedience lessons (which ought not to be lengthy anyway), try giving them a few mini sessions every day, each lasting a few minutes.

Enroll your puppy in an agility training class. Agility training helps a lot in building self-esteem and coordination in a dog, offers your dog good exercise, and real fun.

Applying a bitter apple spray on the legs of furniture is also a considerable deterrent.

Second to the lastly, all after-the-fact disciplining are to be treated as unnecessary and useless. In order to completely correct your puppy’s misbehaving, the best thing to do is to catch your puppy doing the unwanted act, or ideally, work on replacing its unwanted behavior with the correct one in the first place.

The last resort is without a doubt to get help from a reputable contact on Jack Russell Terrier Training or canine behavioral consultant. Invite one of these professionals to take a better look of how things stand at your home.

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