well we had a similar thing with our 1st Mastiff pup.. we were told to crate her when we leave.. but we thought

too confining so in our infinite wisdom we used a baby gate in master bath... well she ate the door facings....
uh ya'd think we learned our lesson.... DH repaired the damage and a fews days later we thought she now knew better... off we went came back to the same thing.. Now we learned OUR lesson and crated her... no more issues...
with 2nd pup we crated her from beginning... Humans are harder to train

than the dogs...

