(DogStar716) wrote:
For behavior problems like trash raiding, chewing up shoes, digging in the
yard, I'd rather just prevent the behavior than have the stress of trying to
teach the dog not to dig in the open accessible trash can while I am gone.

I agree with you. I tell my students that there are times they're going to
have to pick their battles. If it really bothers somebody to put the trash or
shoes up while they're gone, then by all means they can attempt training. But
training something remotely is, to me, much more of a p.i.t.a. than simply
putting things out of reach.

I gave up on it after I put pots and pans on the kitchen counters to keep
MacKenzie from counter-surfing in my absence. I came home to find all the pots
and pans on the floor, along with the remains of everything else that was up
there.

So I just stopped leaving anything edible on the counters. Once there wasn't
anything tempting up there, she broke her habit. Now she never gets up there.

I just put the trash behind closed doors. Kenzie and Murphy will still get
into that (though, amazingly enough, Madigan won't).

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