[nagdu] question

[Wayne Merritt]

I have a designated place for my guide, which is beside the couch in
the living room area. She knows "go to your place," and often I don't
even have to say it. I will just go and stand by that spot and she
will trot in from the left and sit right in her special place. I keep
a couple of tie down chains there as well, looped around one of the
legs of the couch. This is where she is whenever kitchen things or
meals are going on, and she's on tie down. I've tried to get her to
stay there by verbal command, but when that didn't work, I put her on
the tie down chains. I do allow her in the kitchen when I'm in there.
I've been in there wiht her when making boring things such as cereal,
and she hasn't shown interest in the cereal. Of course, I had one hand
on the bowl, so that might have had something to do with it too.

Wayne

On 6/18/09, Allison Nastoff <anastoff at wi.rr.com> wrote:
> Gilbert is allowed in the kitchen because he has very good
> kitchen manners.  But don't get me wrong.  He is a yellow lab who
> loves to eat (smile).  He does not countersurf or beg, but he
> will stand right next to whoever is cooking, ready to clean up
> anything that falls on the floor.  If there is a spill that my
> parents and I do not want him to clean up because he might get
> sick, I just call him away and walk him to the other room.
> I used to have a pet dog who would put her paws on a chair and
> lick the plates after dinner if we left the room without doing
> the dishes, and another pet dog who would steal bread off the
> counter.  Both did it when we were not around, so we could not
> correct them, so my best advice would be to remove all temptation
> from the tables and counters before you leave the room.
> Allison and Gilbert
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Lisa" <lison1273 at live.com
>>To: "seeing eye-l" <seeingeye-l at list.web.net
>>Date sent: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:43:28 -0400
>>Subject: [nagdu] question
>
>>Do any of you allow your dogs in the kitchen?  This question is
> especially for the people that have labs, goldens and lab/ golden
> crosses.  And if so, how do you make sure that they are not
> counter surfing (looking for food on the counters)?  If you hear
> them hop down from surfing what do you do?  Most important of all
> how do you break them of this habit??? HELP!!! Any advice would
> be greatly appreciated.  Thank you in advance.
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