She did chew place on my deck. So she no longer get tied up on the deck. She loves to chew sticks and animal bones if she finds them. We do keep her toys around at all times. My husband is retired so she's not alone much. But until these cats start being nicer to her, she is in her kennel and apartment at night. Soon, I hope to have her in the house most of the time.
Just about every Lab owner I have talked to has a counter surfer. Whenever we go out and leave him alone, we need to make sure there is nothing for him to get into. I guess that, in his doggy mind, he does not know if we will be back for weeks, so he figures he’d better forage.
I usually have a bowl of fruit on my kitchen island, but that needs to go out of his reach. He loves just about any kind of fruit. He also loves bread.
He will take his purloined items onto the carpet in the living room, which I suppose is the grass in his opinion. This has made for some messy cleanups, but we have learned our lessons over the years.
Earlier this year, though, we had a beer making kit out because we were planning to make some beer with it. I thought he would not bother with it. Wrong! It was not fun cleaning up the malt syrup. Fortunately, the bag of syrup was very heavy, or that would have been carried to the “grass”, I am sure. My cleanup was on vinyl tile and a throw rug.
The cat we have now is the most dog-friendly cat I have ever seen in my life. He loves all dogs, and he frequently snuggles up to ours. Sometimes, I think he considers himself a dog.