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#1      Destructive Behavior, help!      We have an English
Pointer mix that is a little over a year old and a Belgian
Shepherd mix that is about six months old. We originally kept
them in crates when we are not at home, but back at the end of
the summer, we started trying to leave them out. We started with
short trips to the store and then going to dinner and there were
no problems. So, we started leaving them out while we were at
work and coming home for lunch. Again, no problem.
Recently, we came home to find that they'd torn up a pillow on
the couch. There had been a big thunderstorm so we thought that
maybe that ahd something to do with it. But, it keeps happening.
Maybe 1 out of every 4 or 5 times we leave them alone, they tear
something up. We have tried removing stuff from the room, but
they just find something else. We've been hesitant to go back to
the crates because it feels like taking a step backwards. They
did so well for months