Hi everyone,

We got Renji on Saturday, and whilst I know he's going to chew, he's chewing and eating anything and everything near enough!

If he goes out in the garden he eats sycamore seeds, actually eats them, as well as any twigs he can find, and the other day the leaves that grow between flag stones (managed to get those off him though). He also eats the autumn leaves that have fallen off the trees.

He also chews mine and my OH's trousers whilst we're wearing them, the carpet (and not even at the end, he pulled a thread out the other day in the middle!), the blinds!?

He's got plenty of toys to chew, including a frisbee, a teething bone, a puppy kong, two balls, two chew ropes (one in a figure 8 with a ball on it as well!). He also has a really old pair of Jon's converse as he likes to sleep round them.

When we catch him eating things in the garden we try and take them off him, but it's not the easiest of tasks, and obviously keeping the garden leaf and seed free would be nigh on impossible. And when he chews things in the house we say 'No' in a stern voice, and if he carries on we remove him from the situation and ignore him til he calms down, but as soon as we start paying attention to him again he does it again.

As I said, I know he's going to chew... but is this extent of it normal, and are we handling it in the right way?

Thanks for your help

Tara x

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My blue-eyed boys - Jon & Renji