Re: [PyrNet-L] Doggie on the couch

[judith diamond <pyrenees@gwi.net>]

    Dear "gang",
    Hi! There are bad smelling (to animals) blanket type of deterrents,
and those sorts of things in the Dog Catologs.
    Gotta' run. Good luck.
    Yours in pyr spirit, Judith, Jonah & Lexi
    PS. I would practice teaching him on command to go on couch, then
reward very positly when you say off & he will eventually with practice,
get off fast due to the positive reenforcement.  Maybe! <BG> Then
occassionally you might have the joy of the pyr cuddle on the couch.
<BG>> But, only at your say so.
Tony Leopold wrote:

>  Hey gang-"
>
> I love that word!" Kane has taken to jumping up on the furniture when
> we leave (he never does it when we are home). We see him up there when
> we come home....he usually makes no effort to get down in a
> hurry....until he is dragged down and scruffed for being a "bad
> dog". Does anyone have any tricks to keeping dogs off furniture? Since
> he doesn't do it when we are here and we only catch him every once in
> a while, we can't really let him know not to do it, although I'm
> pretty sure he knows that already....so  what I guess I mean is that
> we hardly ever catch him so it's hard to enforce the "no dog on couch"
> rule. Any
> suggestions? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not
> bite
> you;  that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
> -- Mark Twain