How to keep dogs from chewing on furniture?

When your dog has chosen the legs of your dining room table, kitchen chair pads or sofa cushions as chew toys to satiate these feelings or teething desires, put an end to the behavior promptly. Make a homemade deterrent spray to apply to the furniture. read more

In the wild, dogs will chew sticks to fulfill the need to chew. In your living room, your dog may chew the leg of a table, the leg of your couch, or the arm of your favorite recliner. The wood legs may fulfill his ancestral need to chew wood found in the wild, and sucking the fabric from an arm chair may mimic the comfort your dog felt nursing as a young pup. read more

Chewing is a normal behavior for puppies but becomes undesirable behavior when it is directed towards inappropriate objects such as your shoes, furniture, or even your hands and feet. If inappropriate chewing is not corrected then it can lead to wide scale destruction of personal property, medical problems and erosion of the human-animal bond. read more

Dogs don't have any concept of time, so unless you actually catch him in the act, a telling-off from you will just confuse your dog and make him unnecessarily unhappy. Make sure that if you reprimand your dog for chewing furniture, you do it while he's actually chewing it. 3. Set an ambush. read more