That's not a chew, it's a SHOE.

[Lynda Kamrath]

You learn pretty quickly with a puppy in the house not to leave anything out.  But shoes, sandals, slippers - just too much to resist.  My "puppy" is a year old but snags anything left out for a chew toy.  He has toys laying around everywhere in the house, but chooses to select his own favorite things, and that is anything that has been worn by a human.  We need to remember to put everything away and behind closed doors.  It is hard to do, but we are learning.  He also grabs anything left out in the hot tub area.  Yikes! 

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

My husband and I each had just bought a new and expensive pair of shoes. We had slipped them off at the front door the night before.  When we woke up the next morning we each had one half a pair of  new and expensive shoes -  totally our bad!

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Such an important thing and so hard to remember! They just love the smell of stinky human feet, lol! Even the mature and perfect JD is not above occasionally sticking his big nose into one of my GS's shoes just for a whiff, lol!

[Rosemary (Ro) and Enzo]

It took forever born my DH to learn to completely close his closet door. Enz would systematically bring one shoe out at a time and deposit it on or near her bed. Good news, she never,ever chewed. Just liked to carry them.

[Christy&Riley]

We were lucky. Riley only tried to chew/take loose socks for a short time although she still likes to smell our stocking feet. Never chewed any shoes or furniture. We have a picture from the first weekend she was with us where she fell asleep on the front porch with her face in my husband's 10 year old tennis shoes. Eww!

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

In terms of safety, socks are actually a much more dangerous chew object than shoes, as they are more easily ingested, and more likely to cause an obstruction if they are ingested. 

[Christy&Riley]

Yep. I'm with you. My comment probably wasn't clear. Not saying sock chewing is good. Just meant that our only issue was socks and we were lucky it was short lived.

[Texas Doodle Mom and Molly Rose]

We have a no shoes house and Molly loves this...all shoes are near the back door. She naps on them (if they are left out), and it is so difficult to keep them all out of reach. Her favorites are the boys' crocs. They are her size, yet light and easy to run away with :). I'm watching her like a hawk and she has her mouth on everything. Funny enough, she found an old Easter egg for us (ew). I've never practiced "drop it" so much in my life, lol.

[Julie and Max]

Max only ate one shoe, and it was my husbands lol.

He does like to carry shoes around though, and bring them to me at walk time...lots of them...not just mine, everyone's, I can take a hint. :)

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Isn't it hard to go back to those old days of childproofing and dogproofing? 

[Lynda Kamrath]

Yeah, especially when you are accustomed to "old" doodles who are out of the chewing stage.

[Emily, Bentley, & Maserati]

I can relate to this! When we added Maserati we were both having to remind each other about picking things up! It was so easy to forget since our older two don't ever chew on things that don't belong to them! 

[Texas Doodle Mom and Molly Rose]

This is why I'm swearing off another puppy, while I'm in the thick of this stage, lol. I'm feeling like we will be a one dog household! May change my tune one day...