Teaching an old dog new tricks
BF and I recently rescued a dog. She is part pit and part traveling salesman from what I can tell. I'll post a pic and you all can give me your best guess. Also, I'm guessing she's around 5 years old....
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Two of these are easy:
1) keep the toilet lid closed. If you can't train yourself to do this, you probably can't train the dog to stay out of it.
2) get trash baskets with closed tops and/or close off those areas.
We have several dog gates protecting areas of our house (stairs, the shoe rack, cats' safe room, etc). Kind of a pain sometimes, but as he gets older we're getting less worried about Barkley getting into anything.
If your dog seems to have real anxiety or temperament issues, then you'll need better advice than I can give.
1) keep the toilet lid closed. If you can't train yourself to do this, you probably can't train the dog to stay out of it.
2) get trash baskets with closed tops and/or close off those areas.
We have several dog gates protecting areas of our house (stairs, the shoe rack, cats' safe room, etc). Kind of a pain sometimes, but as he gets older we're getting less worried about Barkley getting into anything.
If your dog seems to have real anxiety or temperament issues, then you'll need better advice than I can give.
