The dog has a cheerful and lively personality. It is always very cute when facing its master, and it is also an optimistic healer.
The most typical example is that most dogs will have the behavior of demolishing the house, which makes the shoveling officer feel melancholy and don’t know how to improve the dog’s bad habit.
To put it bluntly, demolishing a house is to cause trouble and sabotage at home, picking up trash cans and dragging paper, and tearing wall skin and digging door holes, in short, you can make a mess of the originally clean and tidy home. Of course, we can’t rule out that some dogs are really well-behaved and will not demolish the house, but the majority of dogs with trouble-making behavior are either light or heavy. If you want to solve the problem of dog demolition, you need to first understand the reasons for this behavior, and then take countermeasures according to different reasons.
1. There is nowhere to vent excess energy
If the dog’s energy and physical strength are not vented, it will be too active at home and destroy items. In particular, some dog breeds that are naturally energetic, such as border collies, German Shepherds, dachshunds, huskies, Alaskans, golden retrievers, corgis, etc. It can be seen that these are basically working dog breeds such as shepherd dogs, hunting dogs, and sled dogs. Although the corgi is very short, its old profession is cattle herding, so it also needs a lot of exercise. Different breeds and types of dogs require the same amount of exercise, but there is no dog that does not need exercise at all.
Even dogs such as Pomeranian, Chihuahua, Fadou, and Yingdou that do not need intense exercise are best taken out for a walk every day and exercised properly to avoid excessive obesity and lack of socialization. There are many benefits of exercise, it can let the dog go out to breathe fresh air and solve the excretion problem by the way, it can let the dog run freely to relieve stress, it can make the dog form a good socialization, it is not cowardly or domineering when it sees strangers, and the most important thing is that it can vent the dog’s excess energy. Therefore, taking them out for exercise often is one of the ways to reduce or solve the problem of dog demolition.
2. There is nothing to do at home alone
If the owner is away from home for a long time, the dog may destroy the items at home alone, so most of the crime scenes of dog demolition are found only when the shoveling officer goes out to run errands or returns home after work. Dogs are very dependent on the shoveling officer, hoping to get the care of the shoveling officer, for them the owner is very happy to be around, so if the owner is away from home for a long time, the dog will feel bored alone at home, they will not play on the Internet to play with mobile phones, they can only play with various furniture and furnishings in the player, rummage through the trash can or something, if you are not careful, it will cause damage.
If the dog often destroys when he is alone at home, it may also be a precursor to separation anxiety. A dog’s separation anxiety is very scary, and if it is serious, it is enough to destroy the dog’s spiritual will, causing it to hurt itself and change its personality. Therefore, it is best for the shoveling officer to prepare some toys for the dog at home, preferably the dog’s educational toys, so that they have something to do when they are alone. If you really only have two or three hours at home every day except for sleeping, you should not have a dog, it needs the company of its owner, more than a cat.
3. Excessive curiosity and habitual gnawing
The nature of dogs is almost always curious babies, and they will be very persistent in new things or things they have always been interested in, and if new furniture and furnishings are added to the house, the dog will try to figure out the purpose of this thing. But the dog’s exploration method is very simple, which is nothing more than digging it out with its paws and gnawing with its teeth. If the dog is really interested in something and doesn’t give up if he doesn’t take it apart to see the internal structure, it’s best to put it out of the dog’s reach.
There is also a situation where dogs are used to gnawing on certain things, especially fixed items, such as wallpaper, cabinet corners, sofas and door panels. Once the dog gnaws a little skin on it, it will remember this position, and in the future, it will often come to gnaw on it, gradually expanding the scope of damage. It may be that at first the dog only left a little tooth mark on the door, but it didn’t take long to open a hole in the door, and if you don’t fix it in time, the hole will get bigger and bigger.
Beating and scolding and confinement have no effect, and supplementing trace elements to dogs on the Internet is not very effective, because most of the dog’s destructive behavior is habitual. Applying mustard and orange peel juice on the destroyed items is not long-lasting, and the shoveling officer himself smells troublesome. The best way is to provide your dog with more teething supplies to divert their attention, or simply put tiles on the wall, once and for all.
4. Trying to get the owner’s attention
If the owner usually pays too little attention to the dog, it may also trigger the dog’s intentional sabotage, because it doesn’t know that doing these things is “causing trouble”, but it knows that as long as it does these things, the owner will communicate and interact with it, even if it is a reprimand and a lesson, it is also a sign that it is paying attention to it. So if you don’t have much time to love your dog, don’t scold it loudly when it destroys it, which will make it worse, and it’s best to take more time to spend with it and care about it.
