How To Ensure Your Pets Keep 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. Like it or not, pets seem to have a fascination with jumping on your bed, lounging on your sofa and even exploring your wardrobe every now and then. 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. There are methods for stopping this happening however, lets take a look at three of the most successful.
Training. It is only by making sure your pets are trained well that you will ensure they keep off your expensive 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. Ideally you should train your pets that furniture is for humans and not for them. However, many people do let their pets on certain pieces of furniture, in which case your pets should know which ones they are allowed on, and which are forbidden.
Pet deterrents. If you forgot to train your pets when they were young and now they just wont pay attention to you, you might need more direct action. 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. 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. 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.
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