Help - my dog is destroying my house!!

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Need a little help with my 7-month old puppy, a Rotty x Staffy. Maggie (pictured below) is destroying everything.



In recent days (days, not weeks…) she has destroyed the following:

1 pair of motorcycle gloves
1 box of matches (resulting in a red mouth and nose which was funny as hell, but…)
2 remote controls (TV and hi-fi)
1 Lonely Planet travel book
1 pair of cheap thongs (thank God they were the cheap ones)
1 Gregory’s manual (good job it’s *hit anyway)

There’s more, but that’ll be last week’s list. We have bought her various toys and chewing things to try and keep her from destroying the contents of our home, but they either don’t interest her (such as a 10” rubber tyre with rope on it) or they get buried (her Kong toy and anything else bigger than my hand). Thus, they do not solve the problem.

Now, I realise that with my wife and I working, she gets bored during the day, and we’ve got a whole heap of things to keep her occupied during the time we are away such as marrow bones and aforementioned rubber tyres and so on. These things she destroys are all things that she grabs from around the house in the morning, usually after I’ve gone and my wife is in the shower or something… my wife’s lost about 5 bras in the past month, but that’s because she’s always leaving the bedroom door open (easy to fix that one).

What the hell can we do? We’re spending a small fortune on toys and even more on replacing clothes, gloves, books and remote controls. Any advice greatly appreciated!