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Post by bextull on Nov 26, 2014 12:58:58 GMT
So Oscar's new thing is to sit on the kitchen table. As you can imagine, this is not the most ideal thing for him to be getting in to (or on to? : but I don't actually know how to stop him. He never gets up when you are there or show any interest in getting up but every time I have walked into the kitchen today he's been on that table staring at the door. I obviously can't give out to him and as soon as you tell him to get down he jumps down but then you leave him alone, walk back in to get something and there he is again on the table. I can't block his access to the kitchen or the table unless I shut him outside or in the small utility room (which he is in right now but the back door is open to let him out). The chairs are all pushed in under the table so he can't use them to get up. And there isn't anything actually on the table that is of value to him - No food, no crumbs, no toys, nothing. Any ideas on how to curb this habit?
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Post by caz2golden on Nov 26, 2014 13:04:52 GMT
TBH if you are stumped I am hardly likely to offer anything that you have not already thought of!
Can you put something on the table to prevent the 'clear landing zone' / access?
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Post by bextull on Nov 26, 2014 13:15:04 GMT
Not really to be honest. I'd need something quite big and bulky and awkward so that if he did try and jump up he'd hit the floor again (as brutal as that sounds, I mean more of a graceful slide of the side of the table ). And I don't think my mother would be all to happy with that. He really does try to make life difficult.
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Post by alfiemummy on Nov 26, 2014 13:29:20 GMT
Think I have heard before of putting something that they would not like on the table to put them off - I think it might have been tin foil?
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Post by scallywag on Nov 26, 2014 14:30:18 GMT
Hes found the warm spot, sunshine LOL. Personally I would be putting the chairs on top turned upside down so seat is on the table and table wont get marked then ( not literally stand char on top LOL ) bextull
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Post by bextull on Nov 29, 2014 12:28:23 GMT
Well there have been no more incidents of jumping on the table since. I'm not sure why but I imagine it was mother chasing him out the back door shouting many profanities at him that caused him to think "Hmmm...perhaps sitting on the table isn't the best idea after all". Although for all we know he might hop up there and sit on it for a while each night just to prove a point. I didn't put tin foil on the table but I did put it on the floor just to see if it had any effect and Oscar thought it was the best thing ever. So I don't think it would have worked too well.
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Post by beaglel1fe on Nov 29, 2014 16:44:47 GMT
What a dog... I have run out of ideas (like I had any anyway!) of what to do for that problem... Poppy used to somehow get on the chairs under the table and crawl along and sleep on them! She also once leapt from the ground ont to a 1m high chest of draws! Dogs have strange antics.
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