my sisters 10 month old border collie has started to chew the artex off their walls. its not through bordom as he has a huge range of toys he is a bright alert and healthy dog so its a complete mystery as to why. i know that when our jack russell was a pup he chewed right through our artex and the vet thought it might be a mineral deficiency and to give him a vitamin and mineral supplement which we did and no more chewing but that was due to the neglect of the breeder we bought him to save him and spent a small fortune putting him right hes now a healthy happy 4 yr old. my sisters bc is from a good breeder and has been vet checked and vaccinated so someone please help!( before they have no walls left )

Does she give him all his toys? maybe take them all away and give one or two. then the next day take those away and give him a different toy. This way the toy is always new and hopefully no bordom. Fill a kong when they are unable to keep a close eye on him, and put something on the wall like bitter apple (that never worked for me we used hotsauce).
Good luck

ttfn :)

Dogs eat stuff like artex because it tastes good to them.

Cure is to make it impossible for them to get to the artex. If it is in a confined area, even putting up sheets of clear plastic for a time might work to break the habit.

A Yorkie I had used to go after mice inside the house walls. In her digging through the plasterboard to get at the mice she acquired a taste for plaster, unfortunately. Even up to the time she died at 13 years of age, she would occassionally start to lick a wall and then grind at the plaster with her teeth. As I type this I am looking at a small white patch on a blue wall, my Yorkie died in August and it is a small reminder to me of her presence.

Oh .. I learned not to use wallpaper and always kept extra paint around. :-)

Stacey