What can I chew on today?

Today Brody turns 18 weeks old.  He had his final set of shots last week and he tipped the scales at 33.5lbs!!  He goes back in 2 weeks for his rabies vaccine, then in another couple months or so he will get neutered.  It's hard to believe that a handsome boy like him will never get the chance to raise little terrors of his own.  But the last thing we need in this house is a testosterone driven dog that may reach 100lbs.

Like most puppies his age he loves to chew stuff.  Thank heavens he hasn't done any major damage to anything in our house.  I think he is a bit of a hoarder.  He runs into Taylor and Katie's room and grabs something, usually and article of clothing on the ground or in the rare case that their room is clean he will jump on the bed and grab a stuffed animal.  Once he finds his treasure he bolts outta the room and into our bedroom where his bed is.  He sometimes softly chews what he found, but usually just drops it in his bed and goes to find something else until he has a nice collection going.  Occasionally, he runs into the front room and will leave his article in there.  In any case at the end of the day we have to go around and pick up everything he has moved around throughout the day and put it back where it goes.  Tomorrow is another day and he will find all news things to move around the house.  


One of his favorite things to chew on and destroy are twigs and sticks that have fallen.  This is pretty great because 1. They are free 2. We don't care if they get destroyed and 3. It seems to satisfy his need to chew.  The one itty bitty problem with this is that he likes to chew them in the house.  Since the weather has warmed we like to keep that back door open and the dogs can freely come in and out.  So Brody goes outside and finds his stick and then drags it back into the house where he continues to chew it into little pieces.  The pieces are too big to vacuum up but little enough that picking them up by hand is a chore.  Oh and they also really hurt when you step on them.  But I guess to date he hasn't caused any real damage to our house or our possessions so I can't complain too much I will just have to get on my hands and knees and pick up the twigs in my carpet. 


There are only 2 more weeks of puppy class so I will for sure give and update after graduation!