Jumping on Furniture
The trouble is that Annie does get on the couch during the day while we are at work so Fozzie watches her do it all the time as he sits in his crate. She doesn't go up on it when we're home unless she's invited up which is what I'd like with Foz. Don't know if this is the solution, but several times today I coaxed him down with a treat as I said "off". I don't really think he got it but I will continue to do it if that's the right thing. HELP!!! |
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| I heard that taping bubble wrap onto the furniture might stop it because dogs don't like the sound of it. My dog has his own couch so it's not a problem for me. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful. |
| Stacy,
We have this wonderful alarm for the couches. I actually used to put it on our bed because Harley had a thing for destroying bedding. It is called Tattle Tale. It detects the slightest movement and puts off a high pitch noise. Harley was scared to death of it. Here is a link for you. They have it as Petsmart. http://www.petsmart.com/global/search/s ... esults.jsp Maybe Ron has a link... I didnt check 
We actually had two of them.... One for each couch. |
| After two solid weeks of telling Maggie "off", she stopped trying. Now when the ottaman is in her way, she leaps over it. |
| I have no idea how to get the dogs to stay off the furniture. Of course it really doesn't help that my husband says "We walk on their floor, why can't they get on our furniture?" |
| My parents' sheep is almost 9. She has always been allowed on the family room couch--never on the 'good' sofa in the living room, though. Then, last summer my parents got a new couch and didn't want the dog on it. It took maybe 2 weeks of off and no and dragging her off, but she now knows she's not allowed on it. Sometimes she has brain farts and forgets and we'll be like MAGGIE!! and she'll look at us and know and get off.
Although we do notice there is a maggie-shaped indent on one of the cushions, so we think she sleeps there when no one is home |
| Maggie also loves our leather - she wont go on it when we are home but the paw marks and slobber give her away - she sneaks up the minute we leave the house! |
| I think you may have to get both and Annie and Fozzie to stay off the couch to be really successful. If he watches her do it during the day, he's going to want to do it too and you'll be fighting a losing battle.
Lucy is like Annie and will only get up on the couch when we aren't home. Clyde grew up in the crate watching it and figured he was allowed to too. We tried to keep him off for a week or so but he's so gentle about it and the couch is so big, that we figured he wasn't really doing any harm. Now James is sorry because Clyde's favorite spot is James's spot. Bear only comes up on occasion but he knows if he's on the couch while I am, there's going to be some grooming. That seems to be a pretty good deterrent.  |
| I stayed with friends while I moved and they were fans of the dog, just not of him being on their new Danish furniture. They put a sheet of tin foil on each couch cushion. Seemed to work. |
ButtersStotch wrote: Bear only comes up on occasion but he knows if he's on the couch while I am, there's going to be some grooming. That seems to be a pretty good deterrent.
Great idea! |
| Sounds like i got a fozzie here , molly is as bad!!!
Must be a puppy thing!!! |
oLIVE LEAPS FROM ONE END TO THE OTHER IT TOOK ABOUT A MONTH OF NO! AND OFF TO GET IT BUT WE FINALL have it. o the note of jumping up... i had to make corn salad for my office cookout last night when the doorbell rang. we all (me cody and olive) greted my brother at the door, but the sent of evil must have taken over  when i returned 3min later and looked @ the corn salad there was a perfeft face imprint of ...CODY the EVIL DOG  I couldn't believe it. I had to go back to the Store @ 10:30 and start over and to make it all worse onions and mayo don't do well on a dog. cody gad corn salad gas the whole night   But the good news Cody is finally finnished with his vet treatments on a nuter left you can see how famous he is on www.oesrescuenetwork.org he is the first one and he looke soooooo beautiful. so i guess the lesson is be grateful the problem is only couch jumping because that doesnot caus gas! (i think) |
| Sorry stacy, I can't help you. All our pets are welcome on our furniture... I love when pip comes up on the couch for cuddles! Makes me feel good no matter how bad a day I've been having. I just buy furniture knowing it'll have to take pet abuse... Makes my life easier! Good luck training fozzie!!!! |
| Well, we bought two of those scat mats (plastic squares with little nubs sticking up). Picture a floor mat for you office chair turned over. The nubs aren't supposed to feel good on the paws. We really need three, but the store only had two. I don't think they are going to work. Foz jumped into the middle of the two and felt the nubs on his paws. He swatted the mat halfway off the couch!
I kind of feel bad, but we did put an overturned laundry basket on the third square for now. Annie won't go up there as long as there's anything that's difficult to move in her way. We're hoping Fozzie will get the idea if Annie isn't up there while he's in his crate all day. I've bought dog beds for Annie before and she could care less about them. She's rather lay on the floor. As long as she can still get up, I'm happy about i! |
Sorry, in our house, humans have the chairs, dogs have the couches and sometimes the beds...it's first come, first serve. But I understand you not wanting your pretty furniture covered in old blankets and sheets 
Realizing these may be our last dogs, we love the chaos. susan |
SheepieBoss wrote: Realizing these may be our last dogs, we love the chaos. Did I miss something? |
| Remy too stays off unless invited...Mommy is a such a loser, she comes on but if daddy gets home then forsure it's off. She has "her" spot by the fireplace on the tiles.
We just say off and she obeys. but we do know when we are gone she is on them, in the garbage, chasing the cats, drinking from the toilet...then when we get home to a mess somedays she looks up from sleeping with a "what, oh your home already, I've been sleeping the WHOLE time"...
But I do like the idea of something to deter them, the grooming tools would work here, she wants outside all of a sudden...go figure. Or double side sticky tape, or a noisey thing that crashes when it falls. |
| Mine are all allowed on the furniture in our house... drives my parents batty when they come to visit. |
| Lol. My mom always says, "They're too big to be on the couch!" I'm not even sure why size would make a difference. A dog on a couch is a dog on a couch! |
| No Ron, you didn't. DH is 70 and I don't know how much longer we can stay here and still maintain the place. It's a lot of work. Of course if he retires, then he'd have more time Anyway, if we were to get another dog family when this one goes....and one has a year left, two others maybe 2-3...then we are looking at old dogs with old husband. If I were to have to move then I wouldn't want a pack. We aren't ruling out another dog, but discussing it. We talked about it briefly again tonight after spending $300 just for Heartgard and Frontline and think maybe we could have a big dog to help deter unwanted people coming onto the property, but no more packs. If all goes well, we will have at least one of this family for about 5 more years.....Jack. |
| Bailey has never figured out the couch thing. His cousin Winston (an older OES) is a big couch hog. So when Bailey is over Winston's house, Winston never goes on the couch! It's as if he knows that if he gets on the couch, Bailey will get on the couch too and there's no way he's going to allow Bailey on his couch! As a result, Bailey has never seen a dog on a couch and hasn't figured it out for himself. How funny is that! |
| oh, that makes me sad! Although I totally can understand not wanting a pack again...maybe just one or two?
My dad keeps saying that MAggie is their last, and she's 9 so that doesn't give her a ton more years, but he also said that our last dog would be their last and then came Mags... |
| Yeah, it is, but we've had a pack for 37 years. It has restricted what we can do! Family never sees us together since one stays with the dogs. You don't kennel 6 dogs nor would be leave them unattended. Thought about dog sitter, but never done it.
I suspect I'll always have a dog....... susan |
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