Eating ... Everything.

[last5oh_302]

Day two of eating disasters -- a full pound of butter, and a bag of skim milk. The kids left the refrigerator door open when they went to school - my wife discovered the dog lapping milk off the floor, and an empty butter wrapper.

She has never done any of this before, and she is almost 1 year old - need to stop this before it becomes habit. Going to buy some mouse traps this afternoon and line the counter with them. Should I bait the counter as well?

She is still a pup so I'd say it's time to limit her freedom in the house and use a crate.

My Dalmatian was bad for counter surfing. I setup buttered bread with chili peppers stuck to the butter and he loved it..lol All his water was gone though. He seemed to go through a phase with the surfing which got better as he matured. He once ate an entire apple pie. He took it ouit of the box and put the empty aluminum pie plate back in the box..lol

[grizzlygreig]

[QUOTE=jweese;" a full pound of butter, and a bag of skim milk."
I think sh.t is about to hit the fan!... And floor and everything else!... That butter will go through him fast!.. Probably faster than he can control!!!!

[jweese]

[QUOTE=grizzlygreig;748347][QUOTE=jweese;" a full pound of butter, and a bag of skim milk."
I think sh.t is about to hit the fan!... And floor and everything else!... That butter will go through him fast!.. Probably faster than he can control!!!![/QUOTE]

Yeah, she was put outside on her lead as soon as my wife found her, now if she's only smart enough to stay in her dog house when she gets cold -- all the better. I put her out after the bacon incident and she scratched at the door and barked for 30 minutes until we unlocked the door and she let herself in (on another note she can open and close the door from both sides herself, so we have to lock her out).

She is crate trained as well, so we'll have to start putting her in there but - that's her "special" place where she feels comfortable, I don't see putting her in there as punishment, and neither does she. She loves her crate. I think the mouse traps may be ideal, the cheap- dollar store traps that have more "SNAP" than they do "OUCH".

[ebenezer]

Nala ate everything. The Sunday roast off the counter, the sleeve of a leather jacket which she got by pulling the mat with the chair and the jacket close enough to her crate so she could reach it, 2lb of nanimo bars which she got out of the freezer, anything that she could get her lips on from the cupboards.
The mouse traps were even in Jan's knitting basket as Nala loved the wool. The mouse traps were everywhere for awhile. Jan's cleaning lady saw them and tolds Jan she didn't know that there was a mouse problem and if she really wanted to catch the mice the traps needed to be baited and set.
The first time we use them we do bait the dog. Some nice tempting thing on the counter just behind the trap and when the dog put its feet up they disturb the trap and the whole string is set off.

[maplevizsla]

Yup mouse traps - my father in law didn't want the dogs on the couch so he set up traps covered in tin foil.

[BurlyGirl]

Day two of eating disasters -- a full pound of butter, and a bag of skim milk. The kids left the refrigerator door open when they went to school - my wife discovered the dog lapping milk off the floor, and an empty butter wrapper.

She has never done any of this before, and she is almost 1 year old - need to stop this before it becomes habit. Going to buy some mouse traps this afternoon and line the counter with them. Should I bait the counter as well?

Sounds like you also need to train your kids

[jweese]

Sounds like you also need to train your kids

I couldn't agree more! I think, training the dog will be easier however - they kids are 10,10,7, and 2 -- they're a lost cause already

[grizzlygreig]

Are you sure the kids left the fridge open?.... My buddies dog will open the fridge and help himself!!!.. Had to put a latch on it to stop the bugger... Oh and ya ... It was a lab... To smart for his own good!... Lol

[welsh]

Seriously, if the kids are undoing the training as fast as you can do it, it's a lost cause. Remember that thing about consistency....

[grizzlygreig]

E cooler on the kids?... Lol...