does anyone want my naughty dog?

any_name_will_suffice

i wouldn't really rehome him, but I am not very happy with him.


He is confined in the kitchen when he is left alone- he has a settee he can lie on, and his orthopedic bed, and there's also two footstools we use for seated he sits on from time to time.

So why does he feel the need to climb onto my painted black kitchen table? :eek:

I thought some new scratches had appeared over the last week of so, but I have come home today to find deep scratches and lots of hair on the table and the salt pot knocked over- and the scratches are right at the back (it's against the wall) so he must have been properly on it!

I leave the chairs pulled out slightly so he can hide under it if something scary happens like the windowcleaner comes, and think he has used these to step up to the table.

Sigh...

any_name_will_suffice

I should add- he's nearly 7 (we think, certainly no younger). He had a cruciate repair in the summer and he has the beginnings of hip dysplasia. He should not be that acrobatic!!!

SavingPennies_2

Perhaps he's jumping up for a better view of squirrels or cats out the window?...

any_name_will_suffice

that's a thought, although the settee is right in front of the back door, which is more like a patio door, and he usually lounges on there with his head on the arm, looking into the garden. I wonder if he was looking for food........? I don't leave any food on the kitchen table and I would have thought the kitchen worktops would be a better bet for that.

I can't tell you all the mischief he got himself into when he was younger but I really thought he had outgrown this.

trolleyrun

Maybe your dog is related to this one?

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u01X__LYSrE

lostinrates

Has he been talking to mine?

I have found my terrier on the kitchen table a couple of times recently. Interestingly my table isn't black, but the chairs he's using to climb up are ........maybe its a doggy campaign against black kitchen furniture?


The Kiwi has been roundly told off and I've been cleaning my kitchen table more than normal.

McKneff

Push the chairs completely under the table, then he cant use them as a stepping place.

any_name_will_suffice

McKneff wrote: »

Push the chairs completely under the table, then he cant use them as a stepping place.

My OH just suggested the same thing.

He used to have free run of the house but we stopped that after his cruciate problems as I was worried about him falling down the stairs when he went to collect OH's pyjama bottoms to drool on on the settee. Now we are worried about him falling off the table.

trollyrun that video is brilliant- clever dog!

any_name_will_suffice

lostinrates wrote: »

Has he been talking to mine?

I have found my terrier on the kitchen table a couple of times recently. Interestingly my table isn't black, but the chairs he's using to climb up are ........maybe its a doggy campaign against black kitchen furniture?


The Kiwi has been roundly told off and I've been cleaning my kitchen table more than normal.

He's not even a small dog- he's 29kg and a black lab cross!

lostinrates

any_name_will_suffice wrote: »

He's not even a small dog- he's 29kg and a black lab cross!

Hahaha, at least my table leader is only wee.

Otoh, the others don't have to get on it, or stand up, they'd just take what they want by reaching over.

gettingready

table?

Could be worse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Gaf68_ph0