Counter (or table) surfing!

[Spotherisk]

Rew once jumped onto the dining table and despite never catching him at it since I cannot break him of the habit.

If it was just me in the house I would never leave anything of interest on the table - we have an open plan barn conversion so shutting him out is simply not possible but I digress, bloody Mr StR did not listen to me this morning and did not put his newly opened pack of Crunchy Nut Clusters away (I have tried to train Mr StR but he is a poor learner ) and therefore when we got home about 4pm Rew had eaten the lot.

Rew is still bouncing off the walls on a sugar and wheat high, I think CNC must be the dog equivalent of E’s and whizz! He’s going to have a big downer tomorrow morning (and Mr StR isn’t going to have any breakfast)!

 

[some show]

Lucky old Rew, I bet he couldn't believe his good fortune

 

[Spotherisk]

Lucky old Rew, I bet he couldn't believe his good fortune

His luck will run out one day, only a couple of months ago a four pack of Cadbury Picnic bars (you know the ones, they have raisins in them!) went missing after Mr StR left them on the table. He didn’t realise until the next day. They’ve never turned up!

 

[Barton Bounty]

At least it was only cereal!

We left a full roll of brisket on top of the cooker and went out for a bit…

Frikking dog ate the lot

 

[Hackback]

At least one of ours goes on the table but I'm not sure which one as I've never caught them doing it (therefore they know it's wrong ) - I just see the faint muddy paw marks. We also have to move everything off the table - especially reading glasses. I know which one has a thing for reading glasses. He'll steal them as soon as you're back is turned and take them off to his bed for a good chew.

 

[Barton Bounty]

Oh and we left the staffies ( 20+ years ago) locked in the kitchen…. Went to work.. came back to find jake had chewed a hole through the wall to the bathroom.. disintegrated 24 toilet tolls so you open the door and it was like a frikkin snow globe


We had a golden lab after that and we left him in the garden , he was there 1.5 hours tops.. he ate a patio table , 4 chairs and all the trellis off my neighbours fence ffs lifted the table and chairs And it all went in a black sack

 

[Boulty]

The Hooligan takes advantage of any chair left more than a mm out to climb on any table he finds (yes even the garden one!). He enjoys the view (& the opportunity to lick plates & steal food if the reason your chair is not pushed all the way in is he’s tricked you into thinking he wants to go out for a wee!) We basically don’t leave anything on the table ever unless we’re actively eating / drinking it! He’s a massive sneak thief although not very subtle!

 

[Spotherisk]

Just to add we have to put the bread on the top of the 6’ fridge/freezer, otherwise he nails the whole loaf!

 

[Clodagh]

I hope you weren’t up every five minutes all night STR. .
We put mousetraps on the counter. If you are feeling kind put them in a bag so he can’t get snapped.
Also have had recommended to get a camera and speaker thing, set him up to fail, go outside and yell at him?

 

[Auslander]

Also have had recommended to get a camera and speaker thing, set him up to fail, go outside and yell at him?

I did that. The sod heard my voice, wagged his tail furiously, and carried on eating the butter!

 

[meleeka]

That would drive me potty. Does he jump on the table or use the chair? Current dog used to get things off the kitchen worktop but has given up that habit now she’s settled.

 

[some show]

Also have had recommended to get a camera and speaker thing, set him up to fail, go outside and yell at him?

I did that. The sod heard my voice, wagged his tail furiously, and carried on eating the butter!

Spottherisk could try using it on the husband instead "Pick up those crunchy nut clusters!!"

 

[poiuytrewq]

We have this problem! I’ve never seen it but our dogs sleep and stay out in a boot/utility room when they are wet and there are often big Labrador prints on the work top.
Basil (tiny) is often found when I get home asleep on the table in a patch of sun

 

[honetpot]

I had a labx that would anything, including unripe bananas out of the fruit bowl on the table, and 3lbs of green tomatoes left on the window sill to ripen. If she got out she would raid peoples garden for bird feed and bin bags, pooing out crunched take away containers. When the kids were younger she would sneak out behind them to go on a raid, and hide in gardens when you looked for her, I once saw her crouched in a field, literally lying low. If she knew you had seen her she would fess up, and come over. She could squeeze through square wire netting to get out, I once watched her do it from the kitchen window, so we had to put up chicken mesh, as well.
Both her parents were wandering black labs from farms that hooked up, so I should have known, her mum would wander off to the village once a day.

 

[Clodagh]

Spottherisk could try using it on the husband instead "Pick up those crunchy nut clusters!!"

She’ll have to decide who’s the most trainable.

 

[Spotherisk]

She’ll have to decide who’s the most trainable.

Rew is responding well to some training…

 

[TheOldTrout]

I hope you weren’t up every five minutes all night STR. .
We put mousetraps on the counter. If you are feeling kind put them in a bag so he can’t get snapped.
Also have had recommended to get a camera and speaker thing, set him up to fail, go outside and yell at him?

By 'yell at him', do you mean yell at the dog or at Mr StR?

 

[Spotherisk]

That would drive me potty. Does he jump on the table or use the chair? Current dog used to get things off the kitchen worktop but has given up that habit now she’s settled.

Our garden is like a giant grass parkour course, Rew regularly jumps up 8’ banks just taking them in his stride and the one time we saw him on the table he just sort of arrived… went from standing next to husbands chair, to standing next to husbands elbow, no effort involved. Whereas the cocker would create carnage, there would be chairs over, the oil cloth on the floor, everything knocked over, but Rew just levitates up, takes what he wants and leaves. No carnage and no sign he’s been there except little foot prints and (see reference to poor.y trained Mr StR) sometimes something is missing

 

[Spotherisk]

I hope you weren’t up every five minutes all night STR. .
We put mousetraps on the counter. If you are feeling kind put them in a bag so he can’t get snapped.
Also have had recommended to get a camera and speaker thing, set him up to fail, go outside and yell at him?

He appears to have a cast iron constitution, for which much thanks. It’s 9.45am and he hasn’t even been out for a wee yet.

 

[TheOldTrout]

Our previous dog was VERY food-orientated, or should I say greedy. We had to put a bolt on the fridge door because he could open it with his nose and once stole bacon, sausages and quiche out of there. I make little parmesan biscuits at Christmas time (I can put the recipe in the Club House if anyone's interested) and one year we put them in a tin on the top shelf in the dining room. Following morning, I thought I heard a noise and went downstairs, literally as I walked through the door he was jumping down off the coffee table, had obviously been climbing in an attempt to reach the biscuits.

 

[Parrotperson]

interesting bit at 1.05.

if New learns this you'll be in serious trouble!

 

[Spotherisk]

OMG that is one smart beagle, what a pita - that would be in a padlocked cage if it was mine. Rew is super boingy and could easily jump up but he’s tall enough to stand and look at work surfaces (he doesn’t do that when we’re around either). He relies on eyes rather than nose.

 

[Ratface]

interesting bit at 1.05.

if New learns this you'll be in serious trouble!

Who's a Very Clever Beagle, then?
This gave me a very much needed laugh!

 

[millitiger]

My whippet is unfortunately very athletic and can 'pop' up to walk around the kitchen worktops and she doesn't need anything to climb up

Also, being a whippet, she is always 100% confident in her choices and laughs in the face of a telling off- she has weighed it up and stealing is worth being told off for.

So nothing ever left out, apart from my stepdad cannot get his head around this, so he regularly gets his lunch stolen.
I have no sympathy as he seems harder to train than the dog.

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

We had a beef roast a few months back and left it on the side uncovered, didn’t think about it. My OH went back in the kitchen and Mitch had it on the floor! Never happened before or since.

 

[Spotherisk]

My whippet is unfortunately very athletic and can 'pop' up to walk around the kitchen worktops and she doesn't need anything to climb up

Also, being a whippet, she is always 100% confident in her choices and laughs in the face of a telling off- she has weighed it up and stealing is worth being told off for.

So nothing ever left out, apart from my stepdad cannot get his head around this, so he regularly gets his lunch stolen.
I have no sympathy as he seems harder to train than the dog.

Same here, Mr StR has a butterfly mind, and the lurcher is 3/4 whippet and the other 2/8 are greyhound and bedlington, so much attitude!

 

[Cherryblossom]

That would drive me potty. Does he jump on the table or use the chair? Current dog used to get things off the kitchen worktop but has given up that habit now she’s settled.

Did you do anything to get her to settle? I have the best behaved dog ever, but as soon as I’m out she’s straight up there!

 

[SaddlePsych'D]

Ivy had a big win not long after we first got her. My newly purchased hunk of posh cheese, complete with cling film wrapping. Cue two new dog owners panicking and calling the vet! She thrn of course got into the habit of counter surfing, the solution to which was moving house I think she's had one investigation of the work top in this house but no success so decided it's not worth the effort.

She did one eat, and then immediately throw up a huge loaf of fancy bread at the in laws because FiL left it right on the edge of a low table then turned his back. I'd like to think she learned the lesson but I'm sure she would do it again so mainly a learning experience for FiL!

 

[Escapade]

The first day I met her, we were chatting away with her fosterers and she disappeared for a minute. Followed into the kitchen and he was caught with paws on the counter and the majority of a cake in her gob
...so I knew what I was getting in to.
Once home there were no incidents for a few months, when she took to rooting in the kitchen presses Nothing else was disturbed, never would have known if I hadn't caught her with the jar (a big one of Nutella!!!! the wagon). Anything of that nature now lives in a press even the humans struggle to open

 

[Morwenna]

A friend’s dog ate the bread dough that was proving on top of the boiler in her kitchen. Got a bit drunk and farted like you wouldn’t believe but was no worse for wear after.