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Thanks great advice. I can feel the despair. He seems to have good and bad days, need to work harder on the redirect perhaps with more toys and will get those stick you recommend.
In good news, he's started going to the toilet in the park now, after soke hesitation, which helps. Hopefully he will feel comfortable everywhere outside soon.
Cute puppy!
Ta @ak
skinny
The hand / foot biting nearly drove me to despair when ours was a puppy.
We were recommended using these really hard chew sticks called a bully/pizzle stick, google what it is at your own peril, but one of those used to last months when she was a pup and was a great way to distract her from trying to shred my jeans, and we also used it to placate her when she was trying to settle in the crate / night time / anytime we needed to work from home. I think other people use Yak sticks but they may not be available in Spain, we can't get them in NZ.
I really liked channeling that bitey play into playing tug with the dog. We made some from plaited microfibre cloth strips (we were in lockdown and it was all we could fashion), now we have a tug toy from Tug-E-Nuff in the UK and it's great.