Planning a vacation to pick up new puppy
We will be adding a puppy to our pack. I will be getting a female working bred border collie. My Nell will be retiring in a few years and I will need another to fill her working shoes. In order to ...
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Deb and Ed M wrote:I might be able to borrow a shock collar and my home security camera I can see the countertop.colliehauler wrote:
I will give it a try if I can't curb his counter surfing. He wants to please me so I'm hoping just working with him will be sufficient. He has already learned a lot and is fast at picking up new things. Thanks
I cured counter-surfing with just one perfectly-applied correction: Jack the Cattle Dog had learned to surf from my son's girlfriend's dog. Since I already had a baby monitor, I set it so I could see the countertop, then put the monitor in the garage; put the shock collar on Jack and left it on him for a while so he more or less forgot it. Then I made a half of a peanut butter sandwich, took a bite of it, left it on the counter and walked out to the garage :-)
The very split-second his paws touched the countertop, I zapped him. He NEVER did that again. If you don't have an e-collar, you could set up a pail of golf balls to tip over, an alarm, anything that will startle the heck out of the dog. Be creative - think "Rube Goldberg". And then when you wander back into the house - act like you have no idea what just happened - you want them to associate the countertop with "scary things happening up there"
I apologize to BCsnob I did not mean to hijack the thread.
