Grandpa vs Dogs - Page 3

<sigh>  My first gsd, when I was about 8,  was often left at home for a few hours at a time, with food out on the table or stove.   She never touched it.  Not once.  She was trained not to do so, and she didn't.   Unlike my present bitch, she never stuck her head in the fridge, while I had the door open, either.   She never got on the kitchen counters, no matter what goodies were just lying there in the open.  Cakes, pies, cookies, roasts were unmolested. 

Mind you, I have not had a dog since that did that!   My dad trained the first one and, back then, nobody knew anything but strong compulsion.   Maybe that's why I have to put stuff away, if I want to keep it. 

Guess you don`t get it, e-collors are made for dogs, mousetraps are not made to correct a dog! Slamdunc has seen things like mousetrappes that are made to use for correction of a dog, but why would you test a thing made to kill mice on a dog, whitout knowing if it can hurt a dog real bad or injure it, and by the way you don`t have to be a master trainer to figure that one out.

pientje, I agree with you.  As 4pack mentioned to set the dog up with a controlled situation and an e collar would be ideal.  Sometimes as Sue mentioned we may not be home when this occurs.  The device I had seen but never used, was a converted mouse trap with a large piece of flexible plastic in place of the steel bar used to kill mice.  I would put my finger in it, it's not designed to hurt.  It was designed to teach animals to stay of the furniture when no one is home. It makes a loud noise which surprises the animal, one component of a good correction is timing, another is suprise.   

My question is do you bait it with Grandpa's cheese and hope you don't startle Grandpa?  It could work, Grandpa may stop eating the cheese.  Problem solved.

Jim

pientje, that's probably why she came here to ask. Now we ALL know the safe way to go about it. Amazing how this forum works!

 I think I have seen the things Slamdunc is talking about in a Petco or Petsmart at some point.   You might also be able to check it out on line for JB or Fosters.   just a thought.

I know i maybe reacted a little strong but i just was amazed when reading this topic, i also never heard of this way but that might be due to the different country we live in. Also never seen this devices here in the stores for pets.

But i know she was asking first to hear if it could injure the dog. But if it really is a big problem i would go along with duncslam and try that.

HAHAHAH - Jim, in this household you just never know who is going to get the cheese and who is going to get the Wasabi

Pientje save your "moral outrage" for someone else,  it's wasted on me.  Did you miss my original post where I asked this question in the first place rather than set the trap and see what happens and did you miss the part where Gramps leaves food stuff out regardless of what should be left out???????  DUH  !   Amazed - oh please give me a break this is not a pet board.  I am not using my ecollar in this instance, I  think the wasabi will do the trick.

See ya later guys, we are off to schutzhund club.

What amazed me was the part you came up with the idee in the first place!

Have a nice training!

I had a really bad Pug/Chihuahua.  He was very smart and sneaky.  We set a trap for him one time.  I had some screaming hot peppers.  We ate our enchiladas and left some on the plates on a coffee table.  The enchiladas were already pretty damn hot.  I put a whole bunch of these habaneros chopped small and mixed it in the food.  We left the room and came back later.

Both plates were licked clean and shiny.  Pancho had eaten ALL the pepper.  He was looking for more.

We got into putting dishes up high where he couldn't climb up.

Michele