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Oh the JR terrier, the live wire.
If it's still a puppy, you deflect to chewing something else. We use frozen raw meaty bones like ribs, big enough that smaller dogs can't chew through them. But yes, do put things you don't want chewed out of his reach.
Exercise, exercise, exercise and training. Train them while they are young or can end up with a firecracker when they are older. The GF's previous neighbor has 2 of them, and they are nuts/psychotic but they never got out of the yard and tended to destroy everything they could get their teeth into.
GF has a pure minpin that can be a live wire too, and like the JRT, they were bred to hunt. Once he was allowed off leash and gained our trust, he goes hunting in fields for rodents and what not, great mouser - and I know some people don't like that. If we walk 5 km, he's surely doing 15 and he's a good tired pup at the end of it. Give him a frozen meat bone at the end of it and he'll spend a few hours on it.
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