Stop, Thief !!
I know it's crazy, but I bought a decoy remote control that she is allowed to steal while I routinely store the real remote control on the fireplace mantle. She seems ok with this, but there is much other loot out there waiting to be stolen. Should I get a german shepard police dog and setup a larceny division in my house ? just kidding, but any ideas would be helpful. |
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 That seems to be an oes trait, everyone I've had has been a thief! If you do find a way to curb it, let us know! LOL  |
| Puppyhood! While most puppies have this trait, sheepies seem to excell in this.
Quickly you learn to be extra neat. Everything gets put away or put up high. Yes, you can mix dish liquid soap with tabasco and cayenne but (1) do you want that smell in your house? (2) it could damage surfaces and (3) yours will be the dog who takes a liking to the stuff! 
Bitter Apple spray may help, you have to spray the dog's vacinity when he does something wrong...then maybe having bitter apple sprayed where you don't want him may help........but more likely it will turn out as in (3) above.
Mousetraps on areas where you don't want them (remember to block the bar a bit so it doesn't completely clamp down on paws and noses). Don't bother putting the trap in a coffee can for safety......you just made a new noise toy. Somehow you have to teach them what is their toys and what are your toys (things). About the time you teach them, they grow out of it.........except for gardening. Now that yours has tasted garden soil........well, the garden tour won't be stopping by your place for a few years. Good friend in UK still has a "little gardener" at age 3 or 4. |
Truman once sneaked into the guest room (while our friend was sleeping) and took his wallet off the dresser. I found $20 bills all over the rec room and Truman with a soggy wallet in his mouth. I stuffed the money back in the wallet and put it back on the dresser! I never did tell the guy.....  |
Blue Star has an appetite for shoes of all kinds. She was daintily unbeading the decorative beading off my sandals last night!  She especially likes to get ahold of my husband's work boots and take the inner soles out and munch and rip them to shreads!  She used to be worse if that's any consolation. She is more apt to leave things alone than when she was younger when we always had to check her mouth for something that we didn't want destroyed.
I think that if you have a toy box especially for them they finally get the hint that all those toys are for them and they are to leave your things alone....maybe. Blue Star's Mom--May |
| We tried bitter apple and it had the same effect that catnip has on my cat. It made her nutty and she ran around stealing more stuff, only 100 mph faster. This dog seems immune to the commonly accepted methods. yep, tried tabasco. Probably tried it too much because now she loves all forms of hot spicy food. I know this because she stole a burrito off my plate the other day.
At least she doesn't eat the money when she heists my wallet. The smell of money seems to repel her (odd for a female, hope I don't offend anyone) but I am still missing a few credit cards. Maybe we can get the treasury to sell us some money making liquids to try around the house. |
| Sigh... It seems to be a passing phase for all sheepies.
Try having a soda can full of pennies that make a lot of noise when you rattle it. Every time you catch your dog in the act of stealing something, say NO!! and rattle the can, she should get the idea pretty quick. We tried spicy stuff with ours and the only result was that now they like chips with salsa and jalapenio... ugh. Someone suggested using ground pepper on the stuff you don't want them around. Hope yours is not inmmune like Lennon! |
| I can sure relate to your predicament, as Max is going on 5 mos. old and anything within his reach is fair game!! I basically never let him out of my sight, he has tons of toys for him, but he always wants the forbidden items, so I spend a lot of time shoving the good toys in his mouth and hiding the other things he wants so badly. I try to shut off rooms that he finds trouble in, such as my kids' rooms!! Lately he's been on a beanie baby kick. My kids have a few hundred of these creatures and I have them on shelves in my son's room, but Max gets on the bed and then stands up and starts flinging them off!! So I will be finding a new home for the beanies real soon |
| Clyde only likes to steal 2 types of things these days-- socks and any paper product. His favorite is Kleenex. He dropped a milkbone in favor of a Kleenex that I had crumpled up on the couch next to me after an allergy attack! |
| Mopsy is attached to anything paper and she is ten years old. She has eaten a Boy Scout Merit Badge card (fortunately before it was complete), the cover off one of my Mother's books I had borrowed (I got in big trouble for that one), one of her brother's First Communion Banner and MONEY! We call her our little ATM. She once ate a $20 bill out of the top of my purse and I couldn't find my lunch money when I got to work - I thought I was losing my mind until I got home and she had puked it up on the carpet. Gross! But twenty dollars is twenty dollars so I washed and disenfected it and sent it back out into the world. However, I wrote it off when she ate a $10 bill and dropped it out the other end in the backyard. We now warn all visitors and petsitters not to leave money within her reach. |
| Ahhhhhhhhhhhh "Counter Surfing" a favorite sheepie sport! Your only hope is to become EXTRA neat and put everything high and out of reach. I have the most uncluttered counters in town! Tasker is 8 and still thinks anything within paw reach is fair game so it is not necessarily a "phase". |
| I THINK I HAVE BEEN PRETTY LUCKY, PANDA NEVER HAS COUNTER SURFED, NEVER CHEWED ON SHOES, CLOTHES OR FURNITURE...SHE DOES TAKE MY HUSBANDS FLIP FLOPS TO THE MIDDLE OF THE YARD AND LAYS ON THEM....OH WAIT MY HUSBAND JUST INFORMED ME THAT ALTHOUGH SHE IS GOOD INSIDE SHE HAS CHEWED THRU A SCREEN DOOR, KNOBS ON THE GRILL, 6 SPRINKLER HEADS, OH AND THE TURTLE ......OKAY, SHE'S BETTER WITH MOMMY INSIDE THAN DADDY OUTSIDE |
| The turtle? LOL |
| Clyde only gets up on the sink. I have to keep the faucet turned all the way to the back because he's figured out how to turn it on, and now that he's big enough to swat it easily, I've caught him in the act. Then another time, the water was still running and I thought I had left it on and then Clyde came around the corner and his whole head was soaking wet. Then it all became clear... |
| WE HAVE A DESERT TORTOISE, PANDA THINKS HE IS HER OWN PERSONAL WALKING RAW HIDE....POOR SLIM...NOW HAVE TO KEEP THEM SEPERATED....THE FUNNY THING IS, IS THAT SLIM AGGRAVATES PANDA |
| My guys are fussy. They only like shoes that have never been worn, socks right from the package, new cell phones and the greatest treat of all...a brand new remote |
| I've never laughed so hard at other stories before. I guess we've been lucky, Remy hasn't destroyed anything. Outside in the yard she likes to bury a bone, but she uses the same two spots to do it, so far the rest of the yard is intact. The deck stairs gets knawed on once inawhile, but not often enough to do "real" damaged.
I am sure Tag will make up for it tho, and we will lose a few things through his puppy days. I too keep the kids doors closed, and they are supposed to make sure all stuff is picked up, if not they can't get mad if the dog destroys it. |
I just found a spot on one of the baseboards the other day that had some suspicious gnaw marks and the corner had been nibbled away. I wonder who did that?  |
| A ghost, Jill? Certainly not cute boy Clyde. |
bestdogsx4 wrote: A ghost, Jill?
Certainly not cute boy Clyde.That innocent look is just a facade. He's evil through and through. Sometimes he tells me to murder people... |
Clyde's lucky that he's so cute--Otherwise he'd never get away with his evil deeds and thoughts!  |
That's what we tell him everytime he does something wrong!  |
| Go Clyde! My son says I like the fact that Mopsy does bad stuff and I guess he is right. I wish I could see some of these Sheepies in action. I just love their nonsense! |
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