Keeping Your Pets Off The Furniture
For those of you that have cats or dogs (or maybe even rabbits), you’ll know just how difficult it can be keeping them off the furniture. For some reason, pets love to lie on your beds, sit on your couch and even hide in your wardrobes. This wouldn’t be so much of an issue if they just sat that there, but this is rarely the case. Instead they claw at your bedding, chew up your couch and get mud all over your lovely white wardrobes. Don't keep pulling your hair out though, here are some tips on keeping the pesky pets off.
Training. First and foremost a pet that has been trained well will not misbehave and ruin your lovely living room and bedroom furniture. If you are lucky enough to be able to provide training from a young age then your pets will be more receptive to new training when they are older as well. You should instill the idea in your pets that furniture is for the use of people and not them. But if you do chose to let your pets on the furniture, you should at least train them to listen to you when you tell them to get down.
Pet repellents. If your lovely pets don’t listen to you and have no respect for your property whatsoever, you may need to be a little bit craftier in your approach. You can buy certain powders and sprays that cats, dogs and other animals simply detest. These tend to have quite citrusy smells that are pleasant to humans but are too much for animals with sensitive smell.
Discipline. This ties in with training, but even pets that have had no training at all with still respond to correct discipline. This doesn’t mean that you should hit your pets every time they jump on the chair or bedside cabinets, but instead be consistent with how you react when they do. Don’t tell them off one day and then turn a blind eye the next as this will just confuse.You should let them know your not happy by using short sharp noises and directing them out of the room, but make sure you praise them when they respond well to your requests.
Jan 04, 2010 | 0 | cat care tips
