Here's an idea that MIGHT work for the counter surfing furkids, at least
when cooking or bringing in bags of groceries. When making dinner, and the
counter is full of food (especially Sunday morning breakfast), I take a big
slice of his favorite treat (Natures blend lamb roll) and let him see
ANYTHING on the counters in a cupboard should be OK, until they learn how
to open those too. Mulligan came to counter surfing later in life, but once
he discovered his true avocation, he perfected it to an art. Bananas were
not safe, entire bags of groceries were not safe even while just going
Counter surfing once discovered is very hard to stop. Good smells with
tasty rewards for surfing can make Fido a real sneak theif. I have found
there is no safe place to leave food except the cupboard, fridge,
microwave or other closed container. My dogs are really good about not
surfing my
Does anyone have any creative ways to discourage counter surfing?
Fortunately I have not had to use all of these but Babs may have to test
them out..
1. Place loaded mouse traps UNDER sheets of newspaper - when they hit the
paper, the traps go off. It will not hurt the dog
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From: Janice Parky
Where is Daisy Crifasi and her surfing knowlege when you need her??
Janice,
Why, she's right here staying with me, just as good as gold! I don't
believe any of those horrible rumors spread by her owner about supposed
counter surfing incidents
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OH NO!! It must be a gene in these dogs Nick is a thief too!!!
So far he hasn't taken food off the counter, but then he's still only 7
months old and around 75 pounds. I guess he could easily get up on the
counter and reach things from the very back if he wanted to. But having
no
Does anyone have any creative ways to discourage counter surfing? At 4
months, Wrigley has discovered the abundance of treats above his head.
Training my family not to leave food out is impossible, although I am
determined to try. I suddenly value the single life.A firm (as in loud
Forwarded in plain text for Vilma:
Janice,
Try shake cans? Fill several old pop cans w/ about 10 pennies and tape
the opening shut, then put 3-4 of these carefully balanced on the edges
of the counter, tied together w/ strings w/ about 8-10 inches between
them, depending on the length of the
Thank you ALL for your advice on beaching my counter surfer. The
obvious answer is to keep all food off the countersunfortunately, I do
not live alone, and my stealth bomber waits until your back is turned for a
nano-second during food preparation. I am going to catalog the many
suggestions
Janice,
The way we have discouraged this is through a method we were encouraged
to use by our obedeince trainer. If you can catch him in the act, pound
on the counter and make much noise and yell as though the counter is
bad, not the dog. The thought is to make the dog afraid of the counter.
Cat food goes on top of the fridge, and that solves that problem. Now cat
litter, that's another story...
Susan (and Djinn and Riley)
The biggest problem I've had is my young girl who likes to eat cat food.
I keep the cat food on the kitchen table away from the edge so the cat
can hop up
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