Oftentimes, it takes more than after-the-fact discipline or a grocery cart of chew toys to help a dog overcome destructive chewing. What also works though, if not in a better way, is what is known as a multi-prong approach to Jack Russell Terrier Training.

Puppy-proof your house. There are more ways than one to tackle this concern: store up rugs and carpets; store also out of reach anything that might get peed on (shoes, trash bins) or eaten or bitten (tissue, chemicals); remove or protect as well as you can cables and electric wires.

Restrict the number of toys a dog can play with. Indeed, a destructive dog will only need a few. This way, the puppy does not get lost with what items in the entire living room it can chew and attack.

Safely confine your puppy. Get a crate with sufficient space for the dog to stand and to turn around, or a puppy gate at times that it is impossible to watch over the dog. It is important to introduce the puppy to his future zone of security and privacy through positive reinforcement, and he must never be placed in his crate as a punishment.

Give the dog plenty of outdoor exercise. Destructive puppies need one to two hours of active outdoor exercise each day, provided they are fully immunized. One step to alleviating the dog’s chewing disorder is to teach it to fetch a ball, Frisbee or toy. Again, remember that if the dog has not completed its shots yet, then it is safer not to let the dog play with other animals other than that in your home.

One good way to burn the energy of your puppy is to allow it to interact and play games with a similarly vaccinated dog.

Give your puppy obedience training. Training as short as five to fifteen minutes a day is actually enough. With immature, young, and hyper puppies who find it near-hopeless to focus on prolonged obedience lessons (which ought not to be lengthy anyway), try giving them a few mini sessions every day, each lasting a few minutes.

Get your puppy into an agility training. Agility training assists a lot in instilling self-esteem and coordination in a dog, allows your dog to enjoy exercise, and real fun.

Applying a bitter apple spray on the legs of furniture is also a considerable deterrent.

Second to the lastly, all after-the-fact disciplining are to be treated as unnecessary and useless. In order to completely correct your puppy’s misbehaving, the best thing to do is to catch your puppy doing the unwanted act, or ideally, work on replacing its unwanted behavior with the correct one in the first place.

If there seem to be no let up in the puppy’s or dog’s handiwork, then the next practical step is to consult a Jack Russell Terrier Training expert, or a canine behavioral consultant.