mpeter7897
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I have ANOTHER question...and again want to thank those who have replied to all my questions! It really helps. Does anyone have any recommendations for things I can leave for my dog to chew unsupervised? Now that Bodie doesn't go to daycare anymore, he is left at home 5 days/wk from about 7 - 4 pm except for his sitter who comes for about 20-30 min twice a day. In the past week, he has chewed the legs of four of our chairs and yesterday he chewed the leg of our dining table. (To be fair, I did get home two hours late last night!) He was crate trained as a puppy but we transitioned to leaving him out around 8 months, and now he only goes in there when he is scared. Ideally we wouldn't have to start putting him back in his crate during the day. But he does get free reign of the living room, dining room and kitchen (because of the open format of our house, there's no way we can confine him to any of these rooms). I already leave him with a peanut-butter filled, frozen kong in the morning, but I imagine he cleans it out pretty quickly and then loses interest (seeing as the kong is the only toy that's still intact after his entire life with us). However, he is definitely a chewer and can destroy things VERY quickly. I've been hesitant to leave him with anything other than the kong because I worry about him choking. But I suppose he can choke on the splinters of our dining room table just as well . These days he is working on a HUGE femur bone that he loves, but thus far we only give it to him when we're around to watch. In your experience, is it OK to leave a dog with a bone, bully stick, or some other chew toy that I have yet to discover (we won't do rawhide or nylabones)??