Question by Alicia F: How can I get my 6mo. old beagle to stop chewing my toddlers toys?
It’s impossible to keep the toys away from the dog because my toddler is constantly throwing and dragging toys all around the house. My dog has his own toys, but there is just so much temptation for him! I dont want to just yell at him and hit him, please suggest some humane alternatives. Thanks!
let me clarify. i am not yelling at or hitting my dog, i just didn’t want those things to be the only answers submitted. i also want my dog and toddler to be able to play together.
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Answer by Neiser
Put either your toddler or the dog in a play pen.
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Take him to an obediance school. It would be good because the dog will learn new things and meet some new friends, you can also. Good Luck!!
How is the puppy supposed to know which toy is ok and which isn’t? If you start punishing him for PLAYING, you risk damaging him seriously and turning him into a dog that’s afraid of playing.
If your toddler won’t pick her toys up, then she’ll continue to lose toys to the dog. Teach her this. It’s the consequences of her actions.
You can also make the toddler’s room the only place she can have toys laying around and don’t let the dog into that room. When she plays in other rooms, make it in a playpen or keep the dog out until all the toys can be cleaned up.
This isn’t a dog problem, it’s a people problem. Solve the problem by correcting the issue – not by punishing the dog.
Your beagle is most likley “teathing” as its called in the dog world, find some durable but attractive (to a dog) toys. Some of my dogs favs: Purple squeaky football, Multi-colored rope, Large Multi-colored ball with tufts of fuz sticking out (covers the entire ball)
i used to work at a dog training facility and there are a few ways to go about this problem.
1. place your childs toys around a room along with your dogs toys and bones. put the dog on a leash and use a martingale collar or even a choker collar. walk the dog around the room and whenever he goes over to your childs toys say no and give a light tug, “correction”, and lead him away from the kids toy to his own toy. when he goes over to his own toys, give him a lot of praise.
2. a second way to go about this is to get a taste deterrant called bitter apple. whenever you see him chewing on your kids toys say no and give him a quick spray in his mouth/nose.
hope this helps.
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” This isn’t a dog problem, it’s a people problem. Solve the problem by correcting the issue – not by punishing the dog.”
I think the best thing any puppy owner can do is make his or her pup addicted to Kong toys. Feed him all meals in a Kong toy for a week or two. Give him a Kong filled with treats (bits of biscuit, veggies, cheese, hot dog, chicken, etc. held in place with mashed banana, canned dog food, peanut butter, or low-fat cream cheese) to keep him busy when your child is playing. Soon the dog will be seeking Kong toys to chew on. When that happens you can start giving him other rubber toys, too.
Don’t give the dog any toys to chew on that are at all similar to your child’s toys – no stuffed squeaky toys, for instance.
Do your best to keep your child’s toys away from him, but teach him to drop items on cue, too.
You can buy a kind of spray at pet stores. After you spray it on whatever you don’t want your dog to chew, your dog will stay away from it. The spray has a sour smell the dogs hate, but not harmful for kids or dogs. Hope this can help you out!
we actually brought this up at our last training session with our pup. the trainer recommended that when you see your dog with something he shouldn’t have, bribe him with a treat. put a treat up to his nose, and he’ll drop that toy. when you hold the treat over his nose, say “drop it” or “leave it”, give it to him when he does, and then give him one of his own toys. he doesn’t know what toys are his and what toys belong to your kids, so until he learns that eventually, just teach him “drop it” and give him one of his toys.
and dont punish him for having your kids toys. he wont understand why he’s being punished.
You can try to teach the dog the difference, as others have suggested. But this will be a process and in the process, be prepared to lose more than a few more baby toys. Puppies are like that.
I don’t know. But when you find out, will you let me know? My 3 year old Rottweiler keeps “stealing” my grandson’s nipples off his bottles. Crazy dog looks like he’s got a pacifier in his mouth and happy, happy, happy as he scoots out his doggie door to take the nipple outside to play with.