Making Sure Your Pets Stay Off The Furniture
07 Feb 2010
Keeping pets off your new furniture is not an easy task, as any one with experience in the mater will confirm. For some reason, pets love to lie on your beds, sit on your couch and even hide in your wardrobes. Owners probably wouldn’t mind if they didn’t do any harm whilst on the furntiure, but this is often not the case. Instead they claw at your bedding, chew up your couch and get mud all over your lovely white wardrobes. There are methods for stopping this happening however, lets take a look at three of the most successful.
Training. When all is said and done, investing the time in training your pet correctly will stop it ruining 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. If you can teach them that the furniture is not their plaything, but instead for their owners to use, that is great. 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 different types of pet repellent spays and powders that they can’t stand the smell of. These tend to have quite citrusy smells that are pleasant to humans but are too much for animals with sensitive smell.
Discipline. If you have trained your pet then they will respond better to discipline, but any animal will learn if you go about it the right way. 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. Make sure you don’t let them get away with lying on the bed one day, only to chastise them the next.Provide a good amount of praise when your pets behave, and only tell them off using a loud voice and by moving them firmly from anywhere they shouldn’t be.
