What to do if your dog loves your plush toy animals? It is not that you can do nothing about it. The following is some advice.

Give your dog a designated toy basket or box. Make sure it’s accessible and not too tall or pushed behind something that would prevent her from snatching one of her toys, like a couch or end table.

Show your dog that her toys are the best things in the world. Toss a few treats in her toy basket or give her a treat when she picks up a toy. The more you associate her things with something positive, the less likely she is to go on the hunt for your belongings.

Teach your dog to leave stuffed toys wholesale alone. This will save your precious stuffed animals. While there are a lot of ways to teach your dog this, the basics are like this: hold a treat in your hand, say, “Leave it,” and wait for your dog to pull her snout away from your hand. Once she does, feed her a treat from your other hand.

Grab a stuffed animal and sit on the floor near your dog. Tell her to leave it if she approaches it, and then redirect her attention to one of her toys. After she’s leaving the stuffed animal alone when you’re near it, stand up and walk away but keep an eye on her. The second she goes in for a sniff, say, “Leave it,” and toss one of her toys her way. Keep testing her by adding more stuffed animals or disappearing into another room, but peeking out from around the corner to watch her.

Keep them out of reach when you’re gone. Teaching your little dog to leave your stuffed toys online alone when you’re home isn’t too difficult, but it’s nearly impossible to reinforce when you’re away from the house. Instead of risking coming home to a bunch of stuffing strewn across the floor, keep the stuffed animals up high and out of reach, in your closet or hidden inside a lidded crate.