I guess I was lucky Merlin really was never alone as the chew monster stage. Most of his was as he was older and we did leave him a plastic mug and a cd case. His big thrill is paper he loves ripping up newspaper still to this day (4years old) We try to keep enough bones and toys around, now he's taking the cat toys to cats aren't too happy about that. Good thing I have a heavy duty shop vac to get all the paper.You'd never thing the sofa spud would move to do so much ripping. Paer mache' anyone?