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Bella has been great, but has recently started a new trend. She will pick up anything that she can fit in her mouth (books, remote controls, flip flops, compressed peat disc, measuring cup for her food, etc) and bring it to her crate. MOST things she won’t chew, but she’s started shredding anything paper, including *ahem* a library book. She hasn’t started in on shoes other than a $5 flip-flop that I caught before she really chewed it, and the rubber doorstop by the front door. She’s not interested in chewing HER things, of course, like her stuffies (which she just carries around from one bed to another) or rawhide bones. Most things she leaves alone once she’s gotten a “leave it” or similar, but the paper shredding concerns me. We’d like to get to the point where we can leave her crate door open during the day, but definitely can’t at this point – it’s not a matter of her doing all of this while we’re gone, she does it while we’re there. Of course, she’s only been home 3 weeks, so I’m sure it’ll take more time. Any suggestions on other things that can be hers to chew on? I’ve seen suggestions to other posters with related problems to use the muzzle, too. We’ve tried a couple of different dental chews but she gobbles them up and then gets the big D, so those are out. She gets a stuffed Kong during the day, but those don’t last all day. Side note - I did try a new technique for today so we’ll see - soaked some kibble and stuffed that, oatmeal and peanut butter in the Kong, then froze it. She gets lots of exercise and play time, and lots of attention when we’re home, so not sure what the fixes would be. Thanks!

My husband and I both work full time, so walks in the moring and lots of time & attention on the evening and weekends. Bella seems perfectly content with this, as long as we leave her with a Kong and now that she knows we're coming home for her.

Awwwww...... that just melted my heart!!! SO adorable. Hang in there - we're seeing little changes with Bella (KT Britta) almost every day. It's really fun to see her grow and seem to figure out that we're her people and this is her home. Any bets on when she feels comfortable that it's HER couch and HER bed, too?

OK, you all have convinced me about chipping. I’m paranoid about Bella slipping her collar, so we keep her tags on a separate collar, which we put below the martingale collar (so that if she slips that collar it won’t pull the other with the tags off). Since we currently live in a big apartment building with an elevator, even if she slipped out the apartment door she could only go down the hallway, but looking toward the future, who knows where we’ll live.

Pictures!!

lol - ok, I get the hint on pictures I'll work in it, but I do have few up on my blog - greytdays.blogspot.com Hi! We're in Hell's Kitchen - 43rd & 11th

Hi Karen! Too bad we didn't meet - we adopted KT Britta (Bella) from GFNJ on the same day

Hello, I'm Sara, and I have a greyhound problem. We’ve had our (first) grey all of two weeks and we’re addicted. Our girl is the best, smartest, funniest, most wonderful grey ever to walk the earth. Oh – wait – you all say that? Hmmm….. Meet Bella, a five-year-old black female. She’s adapted amazingly quickly to life in the big city – we took her to a picnic in Central Park this weekend and people wouldn’t believe that she’d only been with us for two weeks. Thrilled to be on Greytalk – have been reading some of the posts for a while and finally joined. Thanks for all of the advice already! Sara