Re: [PyrNet-L] Doggie on the couch

["Donna Eshleman" <donna_eshleman@hotmail.com>]

Hello everyone,
First of all let me introduce myself this is my first time posting, my name 
is Donna Eshleman I live in Bethlehem PA. I live with one very wonderful 
husband two human kids and 10 furkids. In my furkids is a 10yr. old female 
Pyr. I do OB training and have been for 22yrs. I wanted a Pyr for a long 
time and was waiting for one with a wonderful breeder here in PA I also do 
all breed rescue and my luck turned and I got a call from a man with a Pyr 
he could no longer keep, you'll love this excuse his new wife who loved the 
dog through dating time then when he married her the dog had to go to much 
slime and hair is what she told me. So into my life walked Tana a 1yr she 
was not trained or housebroken (I was told she was), she has been a great 
addition to our family, unfortunatly she had breast cancer and we had to do 
the surgery plus kemo then I was told 2yrs. life expectancy tops well that 
was 4yrs ago!!! She has earned a CD not easily I might add, then after that 
she got sick so I retired her.
Wow am I off subject her sorry, I just wanted to respond to Tony the way I 
kept my big dogs of the furniture, the easiest was is simply lift the 
cushions in an upright position don't remove them. But what I do with mine 
is lay newspaper on the cushion with a snappy trainer under it so when they 
climb up the trainer goes off and the paper makes a noise, I believe in 
making the dogs think the sofa bit them rather than I corrected them. If you 
correct them they just woln't do it while your there, if you bait them they 
will think the sofa or whatever it is did it to them. Sorry this got so 
long, hope this helps Tony Good Luck.
Donna Eshleman
Lakeside K-9 Services
JD, Tana, Zildjian, Buddy, Katie, Iggy, Scooter, Alyssa, Gracie, & Allie.
  donna_eshleman@hotmail.com


>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
>
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