If you are currently bogged down by your Portuguese water dogs chewing issues, don't fret because help is here.

As with any process, the first thing to do is to identify what exactly is the concern. If your dog is a newly acquired puppy, then the chewing is a natural response to teething, and is simply part and parcel of the dog's age. But if your dog is way beyond puppyhood and still not acting mature, this calls for a more serious response.

Portuguese water dogs, or all dogs for that matter, can be divided under aggressive or non-aggressive chewers; what falls under the two categories are not the breeds but actually the dogs' personalities.