A "spanking offense"

Bad dogs, get no treats!

 

Your wife didn't spank you, for leaving your wallet where the dog could get it? Humans usually have better short-term memory than dogs, so the punishment should still be effective.

 

If that's what it takes to get spanked by one's wife...buy cheap Velcro wallets, and leave them out more often.

 

My dog has a nasty habit of foraging through the garbage and leaving it scattered about. She figured out how to open up flip-top waste baskets around the house, so we don't throw anything that had contact with food in those. (i.e. wrappers, napkins, etc.) My buddy had a dog that did the same thing and he made me a custom cabinet for the kitchen that has a standard kitchen waste basket that tilts forward when you pull open the front. The dog hasn't yet figured out how to open that.

 

I would have just sprinkled a little cayenne pepper into the can every now and then.

 

Sprinkling some black pepper in with the trash should stop that behavior fairly quickly.
A real stubborn case might require red pepper instead.
And if you think that is mean.......sometime there might be something poisonous in there and the dog might DIE. Even chocolate.

As for the wallet chewing dog, he might need something ELSE to chew on instead.
But some dogs will just chew anything and everything.

 

let your dog chew this