Her baby teeth went long ago (I assume; we never saw them go or be replaces) but she still chews. Now, we're fining out it's more than just cardboard.
First she chewed out the holes of her busy box. The busy box is a cardboard box (we received something in it) with a jingly ball inside and a number of holes that are smaller than the ball, but a bit larger than her paws. When she's interested in it she can amuse herself for a half hour or more at a time. The first busy box lasted a few weeks, then she chewed out the hole and took out the ball. I made her another. It has additional holes - tooth holes - but the ball is still inside ... so far.
Now that we're preparing to move, she's working on box flaps on our packing boxes. Some just have punctures, some are getting a bit raggedy. It's annoying, but not a big deal, at least not so far.
Last night we found out she's moved on to the shower curtain. She loves to lick the wet shower walls and pounce on the bottom part of the shower curtain to make the water drops roll down. She really works hard at it when it's dry, trying to make the non-existant water roll down. Sometimes she launches herself from the tub "through" the curtain with all four feet forward ... I worry that she'll pull the whole curtain down doing that.
But, last night we found one of the magnets (the shower curtain has little pockets with magnets) on the tub wall. When Tom looked closer it wasn't that the magnet pocket had been "bashed" enough for the pocket to break, but that she had chewed it out ... oh, boy.
We're going to need to find some kind of "chew toy" that she'll accept as a chew toy . . . maybe mount a couple of box flaps in places she'll use them?
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