Suggestions for Keep Dog Off the Furniture
#34
Power Poster
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Charleston SC
Posts: 10,742
Put a cover on the furniture and let him enjoy the rest of his life with you...He was probably use to being allowed to get on the furniture in his past...Bless you for adopting him and giving him a forever home...You will be blessed...
''SAVING ONE DOG WON'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD,BUT IT WILL MAKE A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE TO THAT ONE DOG. {Pam...For The Love of Dogs rescue in Soddy Daisy Tennessee...}
''SAVING ONE DOG WON'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD,BUT IT WILL MAKE A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE TO THAT ONE DOG. {Pam...For The Love of Dogs rescue in Soddy Daisy Tennessee...}
#35
Super Member
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 9,733
The only way I know to keep them off furniture is to crate them or otherwise confine them when you are gone. My dogs pretty much sleep wherever they want in the house when we are home, but are always crated when we are gone. You can crate train older dogs. My last dog that wasn't crate trained as a pup was 15 and had back problems and needed to be confined. It took a couple nights of fussing, but I crate trained him at 15. After that, he loved his crate and would go in there to take his naps.
#36
Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: South Dakota
Posts: 58
Our dog was 10 and didn't get on furniture when we adopted an 8 year old from the pound 3 years ago. She evidently was used to being on furniture. They can sit with us in our leather recliners but nowhere else. Whenever we came back home there was a warm spot on the sofa right next to a pillow. We bought a little dog bed and put a blanket in it and put it in an inconspicuous spot to encourage her to lay there. She's rat terrier/jack russell with very little hair on her tummy and loves to burrow under the blanket. It cured her of getting on the sofa. She spends a lot of time in that little bed even though they both have beds in my sewing room. Sharonve
#37
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Texas
Posts: 983
I have found that my dogs HATE the smell of VicksVapor rub.
When I had trouble with a stray cat sitting on my cushions outsude, I stuck a couple of pieces of paper towel that had a glob of Vicks on it, on them, and it worked.
When I had puppies, I'd rub Vicks on the cords of lamps and they'd leave them alone. No chewing!
Of course, there is an odor of Vicks until you remove them
When I had trouble with a stray cat sitting on my cushions outsude, I stuck a couple of pieces of paper towel that had a glob of Vicks on it, on them, and it worked.
When I had puppies, I'd rub Vicks on the cords of lamps and they'd leave them alone. No chewing!
Of course, there is an odor of Vicks until you remove them
#38
Super Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
Posts: 8,139
I read many of the posts in response to your question. I have only one consideration to add - and no solutions to offer, other than to buy him his own cheap chair to use.
--- Please note that this is not meant to discourage anyone from adopting an older dog! ---
An older dog may lose control of his/her bladder and you may not know it for a while. Our dear departed dalmation had lost bladder control for a few weeks before we actually knew it. We found out because, although not 'allowed' on the couch, she used it at night when we were sleeping. One morning I saw her slink off of the couch as I emerged from my bedroom.
I gave her the usual 'what were you thinking, getting on the couch' yell, the one she looked repentant for when caught but ignored completely after we went to bed. Then I went over to the couch to brush her hair off of it and felt warm wetness. That's when we learned she had an incontinence problem.
The vet said there was nothing he could do for her to correct it, so we had her put to sleep. It was really hard, but it was also the right thing to do.
Afterward, we tossed the couch. A few weeks later, we removed our 'well aged' wall to wall carpet to re-sand the hard wood floors and found that there were 'reminder stains' in all her favorite sleeping spots. In our case, it was time to get a new couch and re-do the floors anyway, so it was not really an extra expense. For others, that might not be the case.
--- Please note that this is not meant to discourage anyone from adopting an older dog! ---
An older dog may lose control of his/her bladder and you may not know it for a while. Our dear departed dalmation had lost bladder control for a few weeks before we actually knew it. We found out because, although not 'allowed' on the couch, she used it at night when we were sleeping. One morning I saw her slink off of the couch as I emerged from my bedroom.
I gave her the usual 'what were you thinking, getting on the couch' yell, the one she looked repentant for when caught but ignored completely after we went to bed. Then I went over to the couch to brush her hair off of it and felt warm wetness. That's when we learned she had an incontinence problem.
The vet said there was nothing he could do for her to correct it, so we had her put to sleep. It was really hard, but it was also the right thing to do.
Afterward, we tossed the couch. A few weeks later, we removed our 'well aged' wall to wall carpet to re-sand the hard wood floors and found that there were 'reminder stains' in all her favorite sleeping spots. In our case, it was time to get a new couch and re-do the floors anyway, so it was not really an extra expense. For others, that might not be the case.
#39
Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 146
I went to a ladies home one time---amd there were balloons on the sofa! I asked if she was having a party, and she informed me that she puts them there when she goes out because it keeps her dogs off the couch! How she knew this....or if it works.....I don't know. Just thought I'd pass her tip along.
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