But retrievers are notorious for chewing and swallowing rags or any cloth left behind. This has worked for me but Im sure some other members will have some great advice especially for retrievers.
Exercise is not the answer all you do is make athletes out of them. Discipline and training is the way you gain control. You have to wear them mentally to get them to settle down. I am working with a gsp now that the owner bought and parked in his apartment for eight months and then brought him to me. That dog thinks it's his world and I'm just living in it so he is suffering some severe readjustments to life at the moment. He did himself and the dog no favors by doing what he did. The owner will have to let me have the dog for probably six to seven months to fix the fact that he did nothing with it up front. The reason I have a business is that most folks are not willing to spend fifteen to fourty five minutes a day every day and train the dog using simple protocols. The hardest part of training a dog is training the owner. Personally I wouldn't own a gsp or viszla, the first three or four years they are a total pain because they are hyperactive and you must control that behavior by discipline, training and kenneling on a daily basis. Either you take charge of them or they will take charge of you. PM if you like and I will try to help you, like I said earlier join Navhda and immerse yourself in it. P.s. Smokey yanking birds out of there mouth which is not proper training is not what causes chomping, lack of proper force fetch training is where that starts along with dogs with high prey drive and that has to be controlled during force fetch training. You must teach a dog to pick up and hold before you go to fetch otherwise you may end up with a chomping issue you will need to fix. Baby steps is what it takes, dogs only learn by success and it is up to the trainer to direct the dog towards that by reading it and channeling the behaviors.
