6 months or so after we had to put Hank, our blue heeler down (correction ..my daughters blue heeler who she left at our house while she galavanted around the country while she was single)I thought it was time to get another dog.
So... I noticed a pen of nice looking pups at the Burlington pigeon show ( a swap meet) last march and called my wife to come down and look at them. She picked out the big male. An Australian Shepard. Brought the cute puppy home and did all the necessary vet things and settled down to train a pup. Well it seems that that pup had different ideas. LOL. We are still working on him and realize he is still a pup but he is a handful. Our dogs roam the yard free will and he does pretty well staying in the yard but this place looks like a tornado passed thru. Chunks of chewed up wood chewed up paper several toys we got him pieces of metal he dug up somewhere. I took a roll of electrical tape from him today. I don't know where he got that.
Our living room is pretty big and when he comes in he has some toys to keep him busy. He will romp around and toss them up and chase them around. Well we gave him a "greeny" That's a chew bone thing that's suppose to be like brushing their teeth. After chewing the first one up yesterday we gave him another tonight. He proceeded to play with it tossing it up and chasing it around. He could throw that thing pretty high. High enough to land in my glass which was sitting on a table next to my chair. The glass didn't fair well.
I guess we will have to let him chew on the greenys outside.
What a handful. I'll be glad when this puppy stage is over.
just

Hahaaa, the joys of a pup! When he's old you'll be wishing he was a pup chewing up the house again.

me too,10 week old border collie in house,trained well already for commands but has a midden pile in living room......squakies,,chewies,,boots,flip flops,leather gloves. Burned half the pile in woodburner other day.

about time to get pup out of crate and put outside to pee. During daytime i take him out every 30 min......at this age they cant hold it too well.
He absolutely loves outdoors but now that the barn cats have become his buddies they gave him a ton of fleas rubbing on him. He had none until then.

heck,at my age i can't hold it that long either.

his potty break is over he just saying Good Morning......

My lab puppyis doing the same thing and I'm giving her those same green little bones for her teeth.She does the same thing with them tossing them around as well.

That's just cause it's not long enough to hold.

Everyone seems to make the same mistake with a puppy, toys with an s . One toy is sufficient ( not a shoe or a boot ) they can’t or won’t differentiate between an old worn out sneaker and a brand new pair of air Jordan’s. When you pic a dog toy make sure it will last , one toy and one toy only, every thing else is off limits. No exceptions, not even the wife’s new shoes that you hate because your new hunting boots are next , lol .

Good to see he's doing well. Your not alone, going through the same with my Jagd/English Shepard cross. Named him Loki after the nordic god of mischief. The name fits him well!

I wish you well with any herding breed of dog they need constant work or they will do as they wish is one of the things I've noticed.

A dog agility course and doing that with the pup may help a great deal to help use the extra energy they possess.

They also will herd any and all kid's cats or anything else and may start nipping at heels .
The good side is they generally as a very smart dog and are or can be quick learners.

I'd suggest checking into the Monks of New Skeet dog training videos they raise German shepherd dogs which are in high demand those videos are money well spent.
Allan