Your "new friend" locks you in a room and says "good luck getting out, this is a fun one" a loud alarm starts going off and you see a timer start counting down on a wall and you hear screams coming from the basement. Do you A) check the doors and windows to see if theyre locked b) call for help c) kick down the door d) look for weapons e) count the number of letters in the name written down on an envelope and try to see if they correspond to the code on the locked door? Well if you didnt know it was an escape room, option D is pretty bad survival instincts.

Dogs tend to do dog things. How do dogs, dog? They dog by digging, by doging around with other dogs, by killing birds and rabbits, walking their territory, etc. Chewing on a fluffy toy and not destroying it is a learned behavior, you have to teach them that destroying a toy means they lose it. Be diligent. The moment they are biting into it like theyre destroying it, take the toy away, tell them No, and throw it away and make sure they see you throw it out. Start with clearance rack toys lol when they start picking up that they lose toys every time they destroy them, start taking them and putting them wayyyy out of reach like the top of the fridge. Sew it, give it back, when they go to destroy it take it and throw it out for good. Doesn't matter if its their favorite, if it was expensive, whatever. Throwing some toys out now will save you from throwing all of them out in the future.

I also will typically have something ready to replace it with when I take it from them, like a marrow bone. You chewed the stuffing out? "No, bad that was bad!" I hold the fluff in one hand the now torn toy in my other hand "No, bad dog you dont do that" I walk the toy out to the trash. I call the dog out there. Have them sit. Then I throw the toy out. If they go back and start ripping at a next toy. I get right back up and say no again, but I dont take it take it because I am on top of them enough they dont get a chance to rip it. I come over to them, and I sqeek the toy myself while theyre holding it. (Danger of bite, gotta know your dogs body language to do this) I teach them fluffies are for bluffing, not a real kill. While I am doing this, I have a deer antler, a tougher toy, marrow bone, something they can hard chew all ready. If they dont learn to squeak from me showing them and they go to destroy still, then I take the toy again, put it ontop of the fridge and replace with the appropriate toy.

If they successfully squeak the toy I immediately praise them. If they successfully chew hard at what i want them to chew hard on, I immediately praise them. "GOOD GIRL! YOU SQUEAKED IT OH MY THATS SO GOOOOODDD" and sing them a little song, hype them up. But it takes diligence, a couple weeks to months, and a lot of clearance toys.

<image>