Suggestions for Keep Dog Off the Furniture
#11
Super Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Sonoma County, CA
Posts: 4,299
I've had good luck with "scat mat" type products - but the beeping ones, not the shocking ones. They're pressure sensitive mats that you can lay out on the couch, and if they try to get on the couch it beeps at them. No shocks, just sound. (They do make shocking ones but I haven't used them.) Hard part is you have to remember to put it out each day/night, and keep the batteries fresh. And then there's always the time you forget it's there and scare yourself... LOL
#13
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: SC
Posts: 1,909
I pulled the wall to wall carpet up in my den and put wood flooring in. It stopped them because they can't get a running start on that floor. They tried a few times but eventually gave up. They're both 12, one a mini poodle and the other a tiny toy....so now I make sure they have little beds all over the den that they CAN get to and they seem happy with that. Of course, bedtime is a totally different matter....they both sleep with me in my king-size bed!
#16
Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Central NJ
Posts: 117
I put a curtain rod on the sofa and the dog has not gotten on it since.........so when someone comes over they think I was cleaning or working with the curtains.....but Andy was a couch sitter.....now he won't go near it......and Andy is 10 so it's true dogs can learn new tricks......
#17
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Carlisle, PA
Posts: 1,964
I have 7 cats.....there is no way to keep them off my furniture, so I always through an old sheet over my upholstered pieces before leaving the house. While I'm home, they know to stay off, but coming home to a clump of cat hair is most telling!
#20
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Corpus Christi, Tx.
Posts: 16,105
My dogs go into their kennels when were gone. They are not allowed on the furniture and never have been. On our laps yes furniture no. It's enough to keep up with the dog hair on the floor and floating around on the furniture/tables with out letting them lay on it. I love the two we have but when their time comes that's it. We can't get anyone to care for our dogs with out them either getting sick or something when we want to go on a vacation. Hence it's been at least a decade since DH has gone out of town. He trusts them with no one and I feel the same way. Just not letting them on the furniture. Another reason we have no cats. I've had my fill of them about 25 years ago. I don't hate animals, I just don't really need them.
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