Puppy wants to Chew everything

Calmlittlebuddha said:

Awww, Brand new, what kind did you get, I just started bonding with my puppy recently after 2 months , some days I feel like she loves me other days she doesn't even want me looking at her the wrong way lol. I hope things get easier soon because like you said she acts like a wild animal and it is stressful but hoping it's going to be worth it in the long run.

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My expectations were to take 6 weeks to bond and I'm only on week 2 and seeing progress so I still have plenty of optimism. But given that I have a wild animal for a pet i dont think i'm in a position to give anyone advice lol.

He is a pitbull so its some extra responsibility but i'm putting the time in.
Here are some pictures from today of Zap! I should make a thread for him sometime.

He is adorable! i love his name too

Here is my puppy, tru. They said she was abeagle lab but I see some Pitt or staffy what do you think?

Sometimes all you can do is be extra vigilant. If he's doing this in a place you have control over, like a yard, you may just need to do a really good clean-up of sticks, pinecones, acorns, etc. before you go out there with him, or block off areas of the yard where there's stuff he really shouldn't get into. If it's outside the yard, I'd keep a couple different toys on you and try to redirect to those toys when he gets too mouthy with risky objects. Puppies do explore with their mouths, so it can be pretty impossible to stop this kind of behavior entirely without resorting to something like a muzzle, which is an option (so long as you introduce it slowly and positively so your puppy's happy to wear it), but an expensive one for a growing pup.

Inside, you can work on making trading games super fun, so he starts defaulting to handing stuff he picks up to you rather than chewing on them or playing keep-away. Do this mostly with things he's allowed to have, so that you can almost always give the item back after you've traded it. So long as he gets the item he traded to you back 99% of the time (because you're regularly practicing with safe toys, chews, and other goodies), he'll be much less worried that he's going to lose access to a high-value goodie (like a pinecone or worse, chicken bone) he finds on a walk by giving it to you in trade for a treat.