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Counter Cruising must stop
One of the (few?) things hubby and I were successful at teaching Macula when
she was a puppy was not to take stuff from table tops, counters, etc. The general rule of thumb was if it was on the floor, it was hers, anywhere else=don't touch. Of course things have become more complicated with the kidlets around--a lot of stuff on the ground isn't hers anymore and sometimes (her thinking?) they intended her to have something but missed the floor, and it needed to be "cleaned up" from their laps, highchair seats or trays. The counter-surfing has now spread to stealing pizza from the dining room table if nobody is looking. Obviously, remedial training is required. Problem is, I really can't remember how I taught Pupster not to countersurf in the first place: I just remember thinking "that wasn't so hard." So, any suggestions on how to break the countersurfing habit? TIA Marie |
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I wish I had a good method for you.
The best way is to have a 100% failure rate - when she jumps up, there's nothing there. Judicious use of baby gates helps this. After that, she needs to be corrected immediately for jumping up. We tried small mousetraps in "setups", which provided a measure of success until we put Guinness on a diet. Then, all bets were off and he taught himself to navigate around the mousetraps. We're back to trying for a 100% failure rate, and not succeeding very well. Good luck. -Shannon Marie wrote: One of the (few?) things hubby and I were successful at teaching Macula when she was a puppy was not to take stuff from table tops, counters, etc. The general rule of thumb was if it was on the floor, it was hers, anywhere else=don't touch. Of course things have become more complicated with the kidlets around--a lot of stuff on the ground isn't hers anymore and sometimes (her thinking?) they intended her to have something but missed the floor, and it needed to be "cleaned up" from their laps, highchair seats or trays. The counter-surfing has now spread to stealing pizza from the dining room table if nobody is looking. Obviously, remedial training is required. Problem is, I really can't remember how I taught Pupster not to countersurf in the first place: I just remember thinking "that wasn't so hard." So, any suggestions on how to break the countersurfing habit? TIA Marie |
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I wish I had a good method for you.
The best way is to have a 100% failure rate - when she jumps up, there's nothing there. Judicious use of baby gates helps this. After that, she needs to be corrected immediately for jumping up. We tried small mousetraps in "setups", which provided a measure of success until we put Guinness on a diet. Then, all bets were off and he taught himself to navigate around the mousetraps. We're back to trying for a 100% failure rate, and not succeeding very well. Good luck. -Shannon Marie wrote: One of the (few?) things hubby and I were successful at teaching Macula when she was a puppy was not to take stuff from table tops, counters, etc. The general rule of thumb was if it was on the floor, it was hers, anywhere else=don't touch. Of course things have become more complicated with the kidlets around--a lot of stuff on the ground isn't hers anymore and sometimes (her thinking?) they intended her to have something but missed the floor, and it needed to be "cleaned up" from their laps, highchair seats or trays. The counter-surfing has now spread to stealing pizza from the dining room table if nobody is looking. Obviously, remedial training is required. Problem is, I really can't remember how I taught Pupster not to countersurf in the first place: I just remember thinking "that wasn't so hard." So, any suggestions on how to break the countersurfing habit? TIA Marie |
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I wish I had a good method for you.
The best way is to have a 100% failure rate - when she jumps up, there's nothing there. Judicious use of baby gates helps this. After that, she needs to be corrected immediately for jumping up. We tried small mousetraps in "setups", which provided a measure of success until we put Guinness on a diet. Then, all bets were off and he taught himself to navigate around the mousetraps. We're back to trying for a 100% failure rate, and not succeeding very well. Good luck. -Shannon Marie wrote: One of the (few?) things hubby and I were successful at teaching Macula when she was a puppy was not to take stuff from table tops, counters, etc. The general rule of thumb was if it was on the floor, it was hers, anywhere else=don't touch. Of course things have become more complicated with the kidlets around--a lot of stuff on the ground isn't hers anymore and sometimes (her thinking?) they intended her to have something but missed the floor, and it needed to be "cleaned up" from their laps, highchair seats or trays. The counter-surfing has now spread to stealing pizza from the dining room table if nobody is looking. Obviously, remedial training is required. Problem is, I really can't remember how I taught Pupster not to countersurf in the first place: I just remember thinking "that wasn't so hard." So, any suggestions on how to break the countersurfing habit? TIA Marie |
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I wish I had a good method for you.
The best way is to have a 100% failure rate - when she jumps up, there's nothing there. Judicious use of baby gates helps this. After that, she needs to be corrected immediately for jumping up. We tried small mousetraps in "setups", which provided a measure of success until we put Guinness on a diet. Then, all bets were off and he taught himself to navigate around the mousetraps. We're back to trying for a 100% failure rate, and not succeeding very well. Good luck. -Shannon Marie wrote: One of the (few?) things hubby and I were successful at teaching Macula when she was a puppy was not to take stuff from table tops, counters, etc. The general rule of thumb was if it was on the floor, it was hers, anywhere else=don't touch. Of course things have become more complicated with the kidlets around--a lot of stuff on the ground isn't hers anymore and sometimes (her thinking?) they intended her to have something but missed the floor, and it needed to be "cleaned up" from their laps, highchair seats or trays. The counter-surfing has now spread to stealing pizza from the dining room table if nobody is looking. Obviously, remedial training is required. Problem is, I really can't remember how I taught Pupster not to countersurf in the first place: I just remember thinking "that wasn't so hard." So, any suggestions on how to break the countersurfing habit? TIA Marie |
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"Marie" wrote in message
... One of the (few?) things hubby and I were successful at teaching Macula when she was a puppy was not to take stuff from table tops, counters, etc. The general rule of thumb was if it was on the floor, it was hers, anywhere else=don't touch. Of course things have become more complicated with the kidlets around--a lot of stuff on the ground isn't hers anymore and sometimes (her thinking?) they intended her to have something but missed the floor, and it needed to be "cleaned up" from their laps, highchair seats or trays. The counter-surfing has now spread to stealing pizza from the dining room table if nobody is looking. Obviously, remedial training is required. Problem is, I really can't remember how I taught Pupster not to countersurf in the first place: I just remember thinking "that wasn't so hard." So, any suggestions on how to break the countersurfing habit? If you can afford a few of them, the long strips of scat-mat work really well for breaking counter-surfers, unless they're Boxers anyway. The only real way I know of is to manage the situation by not leaving food you don't want the dog to steal on the counter. In my house the counters, trash & even the grill (hot or cold) is fair game in Fancy's world. No matter how many timeouts, how many DROP IT!s and so on, food is more important to her than getting in trouble is. This is pretty much a breed trait so I've learned to not leave any food on the counter/table/grill, unattended, unless I don't mind if Fancy steals it. -- Tara |
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"Marie" wrote in message
... One of the (few?) things hubby and I were successful at teaching Macula when she was a puppy was not to take stuff from table tops, counters, etc. The general rule of thumb was if it was on the floor, it was hers, anywhere else=don't touch. Of course things have become more complicated with the kidlets around--a lot of stuff on the ground isn't hers anymore and sometimes (her thinking?) they intended her to have something but missed the floor, and it needed to be "cleaned up" from their laps, highchair seats or trays. The counter-surfing has now spread to stealing pizza from the dining room table if nobody is looking. Obviously, remedial training is required. Problem is, I really can't remember how I taught Pupster not to countersurf in the first place: I just remember thinking "that wasn't so hard." So, any suggestions on how to break the countersurfing habit? If you can afford a few of them, the long strips of scat-mat work really well for breaking counter-surfers, unless they're Boxers anyway. The only real way I know of is to manage the situation by not leaving food you don't want the dog to steal on the counter. In my house the counters, trash & even the grill (hot or cold) is fair game in Fancy's world. No matter how many timeouts, how many DROP IT!s and so on, food is more important to her than getting in trouble is. This is pretty much a breed trait so I've learned to not leave any food on the counter/table/grill, unattended, unless I don't mind if Fancy steals it. -- Tara |
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"Marie" wrote in message
... One of the (few?) things hubby and I were successful at teaching Macula when she was a puppy was not to take stuff from table tops, counters, etc. The general rule of thumb was if it was on the floor, it was hers, anywhere else=don't touch. Of course things have become more complicated with the kidlets around--a lot of stuff on the ground isn't hers anymore and sometimes (her thinking?) they intended her to have something but missed the floor, and it needed to be "cleaned up" from their laps, highchair seats or trays. The counter-surfing has now spread to stealing pizza from the dining room table if nobody is looking. Obviously, remedial training is required. Problem is, I really can't remember how I taught Pupster not to countersurf in the first place: I just remember thinking "that wasn't so hard." So, any suggestions on how to break the countersurfing habit? If you can afford a few of them, the long strips of scat-mat work really well for breaking counter-surfers, unless they're Boxers anyway. The only real way I know of is to manage the situation by not leaving food you don't want the dog to steal on the counter. In my house the counters, trash & even the grill (hot or cold) is fair game in Fancy's world. No matter how many timeouts, how many DROP IT!s and so on, food is more important to her than getting in trouble is. This is pretty much a breed trait so I've learned to not leave any food on the counter/table/grill, unattended, unless I don't mind if Fancy steals it. -- Tara |
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"Marie" wrote in message
... One of the (few?) things hubby and I were successful at teaching Macula when she was a puppy was not to take stuff from table tops, counters, etc. The general rule of thumb was if it was on the floor, it was hers, anywhere else=don't touch. Of course things have become more complicated with the kidlets around--a lot of stuff on the ground isn't hers anymore and sometimes (her thinking?) they intended her to have something but missed the floor, and it needed to be "cleaned up" from their laps, highchair seats or trays. The counter-surfing has now spread to stealing pizza from the dining room table if nobody is looking. Obviously, remedial training is required. Problem is, I really can't remember how I taught Pupster not to countersurf in the first place: I just remember thinking "that wasn't so hard." So, any suggestions on how to break the countersurfing habit? If you can afford a few of them, the long strips of scat-mat work really well for breaking counter-surfers, unless they're Boxers anyway. The only real way I know of is to manage the situation by not leaving food you don't want the dog to steal on the counter. In my house the counters, trash & even the grill (hot or cold) is fair game in Fancy's world. No matter how many timeouts, how many DROP IT!s and so on, food is more important to her than getting in trouble is. This is pretty much a breed trait so I've learned to not leave any food on the counter/table/grill, unattended, unless I don't mind if Fancy steals it. -- Tara |
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