Comments on: Meep meep

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:20:42 +0000

My yellow lab ate a huge plate of fried onions off the counter. She was treated to a lovely emetics cocktail followed by a charcoal chaser at the emergency clinic 30 minutes later. Sigh…
Now everything in the kitchen is stored in the fridge, the cupboards and when necessary (like during dinner), in the microwave and the oven. She has us well trained.

By: Autumnhound

Autumnhound — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:04:46 +0000

One of my corgis, a blonde boy named Tucker, is only about two foot tall…when he’s standing on all fours. But he’s recently discovered that if he puts his stubby paws on the cabinets, he is suddenly tall enough to enough to scan the counter tops with his nose. This resulted in one instance of him pulling down a bowl of pancake batter onto himself. He smelled delicious for days! But after that, I cut up this rubber mat that has the raised bumps on the underside, and attached strips of that to my cabinets where he puts his paws. It works fantastically! The bumps hurt just enough to keep him with all four on the floor, lol! This is so vital, because I’m concerned that if I’m cooking and walk away for a moment, he’d pull down a boiling hot pan onto himself.

So, you could always try that! It’s the kind of mat that people put under their computer chairs, but I know that you can buy a version that people normally put on chairs. It might work better than the scat mat (altho it seems like you’re having great luck with it.) =)

Side note about the shock collars: Dorito just made a Super Bowl commercial where a dog is wearing one, glaring at a man who’s eating Doritos and teasing him with them. So he yanks it off, put’s it around the man’s neck and when the man yells, he drops the chip bag. The dog steals it, which makes the man yell more and flop on the ground. It made me laugh SO HARD. You should look it up.

By: macula_densa

macula_densa — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:56:53 +0000

OK, I really need to quit putting my e-mail address in the name field when I don’t intend to. ;-P

By: macula_densa

macula_densa — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:52:08 +0000

Michelle, I think you are picturing this to be a lot worse than it is. It’s probably about the same amount of stimulation as a sudden spray with a jet of water from what I’ve gathered. It’s nowhere near the same caliber as a shock collar. Since there are other humans in the house that Dr. V cannot control, I think I’d take that mild amount of negative reinforcement over the chance of killing Brody with something toxic. Had she not gotten to him quickly enough, Brody could have died from eating all those grapes.

By: Dr. V

Dr. V — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:58:14 +0000

Not a shock collar! I don’t use those! It’s a sheet that has a mild electrostatic charge but is not attached to the dog at all.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:52:39 +0000

How dare you assume I’m a troll? That’s incredibly rude and unjustified. I’ve been reading here for quite some time and rarely comment. I’ve enjoyed the blog but this is something I feel strongly about. Aggression begets aggression and there have been studies done on such things. The fact that a vet ignores all those studies and still puts a shock collar on a dog worries me.

As for kids vs. dogs. A small swat to a child vs. an electric shock? Would you put a shock collar on your child to stop him from running into the street? I somehow doubt it. It’s not humane. So why is it ok to do the same thing to a puppy?

By: Spyder

Spyder — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:15:54 +0000

I read this post to my husband laughing through the whole thing. Tears even! Xander loves to lick the butter dish. Yuck! I think he wold love Paula Dean! LOL! I’m thinking of trying a string tied to bagel & tied to a grocery bag full of empty pop cans.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:03:34 +0000

Of my 3 labs , one will not touch anything left out ( we call her Miss goody two shoes ), then there is Chauncy who is a surfer but knows exactly when to do it not to get caught.. Then there is Raider and we were told his name came from the Oakland Raiders… ha! He is a surfer par excellance.. nothing is safe from this boy.. he will steal your toast while you are buttering it and you will wonder where it went.. I have tried mouse traps, tin foil, pop cans filled with pennies attached to meat, a spray of water, and then I tried the hottest hot sauce I could find… that worked like a charm, he won’t touch anything with hot sauce on it now… so now all I have to do it cover everything in hot sauce and it’s all good..

Good luck

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:25:45 +0000

I used to have a Lab so I “feel your pain”! Now I live with a nice small poodle cross!

By: Dr. V

Dr. V — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:48:38 +0000

He jumps. High.