What a day!!
Her x-rays were great! She has nice, healthy hips. So I decide to go out and pick up some kitty litter. I had only been gone an hour when I come home and find garbage all over the floor. Wendel is just smiling away. At first I wasn't concerned, just irritated. Then I remembered that I had chicken for lunch and the bones were in the trash can. I pick up all the garbage and cannot find the chicken! I lasso up Wendel and bring him to the vet. After getting some medication and told that he would be fine I came back home. The vet techs and receptionists just kept snickering and saying that Wendel had been feeling left out since he didn't have to go to the vet this morning. What a day! Now, since Wendel has graduated to being just a counter surfer to being now a garbage picker, I have to hunt around for a better garbage can. I currently have one with a lid that we place a hammer on so the dogs don't get into it. I guess Wendel realized that he can easily push the hammer over and go - NOM NOM NOM. Does anyone else have days like this? |
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If it helps, we have graduated to a 12 pack of pop on the garbage can lid when a certain few of ours (and LeAnne's) are out and unsupervised!!!  |
got sheep wrote: If it helps, we have graduated to a 12 pack of pop on the garbage can lid when a certain few of ours (and LeAnne's) are out and unsupervised!!!
 How we let these critters make us adapt to them! |
| Our garbage can is its own drawer of the cabinet. Best invention ever! I can't even imagine what I'd come home to without it! |
ButtersStotch wrote: Our garbage can is its own drawer of the cabinet. Best invention ever! I can't even imagine what I'd come home to without it!
Darn houses made 150 yrs ago didn't have drawers for garbage... 
I have friends who have them and I LOVE them! |
| we had a small one that fit in sink cabinet with tight fliptop lid. burnables were in a metal one w/in flip metal flap next to frig. so all was cool for many yrs w/sheepie and labradoofus. |
ButtersStotch wrote: Our garbage can is its own drawer of the cabinet. Best invention ever! I can't even imagine what I'd come home to without it!
With a determined dog, even this wouldn't be a detriment. We don't have a cabinet drawer that's specifically a garbage can holder, but we have one of those sliders installed in the cabinet under the sink, and I can't begin to tell you how many cabinet pulls we replaced when Drez was alive because she would grab it in her mouth and pull it open, then would slide the garbage can out and munch away! We even put child-proof locks on the inside of that cabinet which helped keep her out of the garbage, but it still took a toll on the cabinet pulls because she would just pull and pull and pull . . . And when she got frustrated because she couldn't get to the garbage can, she figured out how to open the bread drawer and helped herself there! These drawers had handles instead of pulls, so we had to put a yardstick down thru the handles. Came home many a time to find all four drawers pulled out slightly because she still tried her best to get in there. I still miss that girl and her antics!  |
| I have a friend who's girl figured out how to open the fridge! She came home to all her dogs in a circle in front of the opened fridge as this one girl very neatly pulled item after item out & placed them on the floor for the others! Obviously, she was the dominant girl in the pack! Everyone was politely waiting & watching with an occasional "sniff"! |
| We don't have a place to store the can, either. We have tried several different types of cans and lids. So far, our best solution has been the least expensive, although not the nicest looking. We got the semi circle shape can with the lid that you have to press to open. It snaps when you close it, and none of our dogs have figured it out. I think it was all of $16 at Target.
I've spent big $$ twice on nice, stainless cans where you step on the lever to open them, but the levers broke both times. The dogs also figured out they could nose the lid up. |
| For years our garbage has been a Safeway bag suspended from the pull of an upper shelf, at my eye level. As soon as it's full it goes outside.
Not a better homes and gardens moment (or lifestyle I guess) but it's too high to reach and we no longer rush garbage picking dogs to the vet. If it's cold out I'll end up with two or three before I take it out. A total eyesore, but a lot less stress and emergency vet trips. I'm glad that some people have more visually acceptable solutions. I'm jealous! My garbage is at eye level on full display in the kitchen. |
omg  |
ChSheepdogs wrote: I have a friend who's girl figured out how to open the fridge! She came home to all her dogs in a circle in front of the opened fridge as this one girl very neatly pulled item after item out & placed them on the floor for the others! Obviously, she was the dominant girl in the pack! Everyone was politely waiting & watching with an occasional "sniff"!
I assume th eonly reason Morgan hasn't figured this out is we have the freezer on the bottom drawer and he can't stand on his rear legs  If he figures out how to open the fridge we'll never have any ice - he loves the ice cubes
Our garbage goes into the cabinet. |
| Checker's taught himself to "lift the seat"....... for a drink for the porcelin fountain. I guess he heard me telling Norm he had to do it when he was here. UGHHHHHHHH BOYS but i guess he doesn't want his mom to sit on a wet seat............... sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh |
| Our garbage can goes up on the counter/stove/table if...BIG if we leave the dogs in the kitchen when we are gone. We now gate them into the hall when we are gone. |
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