Life as I know it is over

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Charlie is now capable of jumping up on the couch herself. Once she's there it's just a small step onto the coffee table, the place I used to keep her treats so they would be handy to bribe her with. This development just can't turn out well for me.

[rovo]

Sure it can. It is called training. Better figure out how to train the dog before you have to worry about training the kid.

[queenofcorona]

or ... have the kid train the dog. That's what kids are for isn't it? (doing stuff for us!) .....KIDDING! (though it would have been helpful if mine were still living at home so he could have shoveled for me today )

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I'll have you know Charlie listens VERY well...when she wants to.

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Time to make some General Tsos ala Charlie.

[wackyaunt]

We trained our puppy to stay off of the antique chairs using little snappy mouse traps. They were touchy enough that they would snap when he put is front paws on the front of the chair seat (they were placed near the back of the seat). Any movement made them snap, he was not harmed in any way and it only took a couple of days...he still makes a wide berth walking around those chairs and he is now 8 years old. The couch we gave in on a put a big "blankie" and special pillow on for him to snooze on (and take off when company arrives!)

[MN-Investor]

Pretty container, snap on top which needs human digits to open. Resume life as you know it.

[Apple]

Later, you made me laugh with a memory, even though it's of my son and not an animal...

The first night he learned how to climb out of his crib we finally gave up and went to sleep figuring he'd not come to any real harm, get bored and go to sleep (we kept a gate up so he could only be in the living room or his bedroom).
I woke up the next morning to him sitting on the couch clutching a sucker in one hand and a candy bar in the other, shaking from the sugar high! His dad had left a cookie tin full of Halloween candy on the pool table. DS figured out how to climb up and ate almost all of it. For the next two weeks I found pieces of chocolate all over the living room. It had foil on it so DS had bit into it and then tossed it aside (he didn't know how to take the foil off). One of my favorite memories and I'll never forget that evil little grin he gave me when I found him.
Thanks! (and karma for you

[wackyaunt]

"Pretty container, snap on top which needs human digits to open. Resume life as you know it."

I used to have one of those...puppy chewed right through it. Glass container with snap on lid, he rolled it around the living room banging it into furniture when we were gone until the lid became loose and finally popped off...so I went with a glass container and screw on lid...that stumped him, but he still looks at it and sniffs it, and you can tell that he is thinking, "Someday I will win!"