My puppy is eating wood/twigs/branches....?

She's an 11 week old lab puppy and we can't get her to stop chewing on, and eating, the twigs/branches in our backyard that have fallen from the trees. She's also starting to get interested in picking up and carrying around rocks, but hasn't tried eating any, yet!





She has all kinds of chew toys that she loves, but she ignores them as soon as she's outside. We've also tried getting special toys that she only gets outside, but she likes the wood and rocks better. I'm worried she'll chip/break her teeth on the rocks and that she's eating too much wood. It's all over the yard so fencing off a certain area won't work. Help!

My puppy is eating wood/twigs/branches....?
I have two lab puppies (4 months) and they chew EVERYTHING! They too chew sticks, branches, even the wood from the deck!. I just try to stop them when I catch them %26amp; replace it with an appropriate chew item. But I have to be honest, I have been told that labs will chew everything for 2 years! So be prepared to supervise!!
Reply:Go to a special trainer.
Reply:rake your yard! she's a puppy, so she's going to eat/chew things.
Reply:she needs a chew toy that crumbles and gets inbetween her teeth, shes teething and trying to make it stop hurting.
Reply:Your puppy is going through a discovery process. Remember they don't have hands so instead of picking things up and looking at them and learning about their environment they pick things up with their mouth. They also play like children instead of rolling balls. or playing with cars they bite things and chew things for playtime.
Reply:My dogs are 5.5 and 4.5 and they still love to play with sticks. They went nuts on a couple today. They like finding them and then running around the yard with them growling. Quite funny. No probs man.
Reply:You need to remove any object that you do not want her to eat from her mouth; forcefully if you have to. Do not let her eat these things and tell her with a strong, firm 'NO' that she is not allowed to eat it. Also, keep some treats to reward her for listening to you.
Reply:It is a lab thing. I have a 19 month old lab and he loves to chew sticks and have spoken to many other lab owners and their dogs do the same thing. My boy never eats them just loves to chew on them. She is probably teething just watch her carefully, it should not hurt her.
Reply:Clean up the yard, pups chew on EVERYTHING! (one tried chewing up my dentures once). She'll get worse in a month or so too, because then she'll be teething. To give a little wood "treat," so to speak, every now %26amp; then, teach her to play fetch with a wooden stick. Inside, get up all electrical %26amp; phone cords out of the way-I didn't once, and wound up re-runnung the wires from my stereo to my speakers!
Reply:Its normal, mine is obessed with grass, twigs, leaves and sticks too. It won't hurt her. I usually take it away when I catch her unless it's a stick that won't break apart. Discipline her firmly when you see her go for the rocks. She'll out grow it. As far as her teeth go, she'll be losing her baby teeth soon anyway. If you don't want her doing it, toss her a rawhide bone.
Reply:Perfectly normal puppy. Outside things have far more interesting smells than toys do! Let her chew, just make sure she doesn't swallow rocks. She may be starting to teethe too.





My nearly 3 year old Great Dane is still chewing branches off the trees!



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