She Counter Surfs!!!!!

**Tollers-n-Dobes** · 11-28-2006, 04:30 PM

I've never had a counter surfing dog fortunately but it seems to me that Tikeya knows she's not supposed to be doing it which is why she only does it when you're not at home. I don't think there really is a way to teach her to stay off as she obviously knows it's wrong already. Dogs have a very hard time resisting temptation as others have said, so I think the only way you're going to get by this would be to remove all food items from your counter tops. You could try the tape idea as suggested also, I've heard that works for a lot of dogs. If all else fails, can you block off the kitchen so that the dogs can't get in there when you're gone with a baby gate or something?

**Love That Collie** · 11-28-2006, 08:08 PM

I never had a counter surfer but Chloe (aged 5 months) seems to be thrilled with the toilet paper I keep on the floor in a basket in the bathroom. She doesn't tear it up she just brings it to me after she slobbers on it.

I have never picked anything (except live plants) up off the floor and moved it because of dogs but I used the penny can on top of the toilet paper in the basket and one time of knocking that over and she doesn't like TP anymore. A friend of mine used penny cans for counter surfing and the furniture and it worked.

**Giselle** · 11-28-2006, 09:46 PM

I used the penny method Love My Collie suggested. All it took was one time and Giselle stopped her counter surfing completely. I, too, set her up by placing a piece of meat in a cup. I pierced a hole in the cup and tied a piece of string to the cup. I also tied the piece of string to another cup with pennies. As I expected, Giselle fell for the trap and I spent the next 10 minutes cleaning up pennies

It was worth it, though. No physical harm was done and we've never had a counter surfing problem since. Just make sure the meat is in a container that Tikeya can't eat right off the counter like a cup. Otherwise, she'll outsmart your trap!

**cali** · 11-28-2006, 09:57 PM

it sounds like she has already rewarded herslef enugh that making her stop will be VERY difficult, I tried all the traps with Misty, the tape, the noisy cans and mouse traps.. nothing she had already rewarded herself enugh that she overcame every sort of scare, for example I booby trapped a bagel, I left it in her reach but tied to a shaker can and left the room, the first time she tried to grab the bagel just the movment of the can scared her, 5 seconds later she was back grabbed the bagel the shaker can slammed to the ground making a horrable racket and she ignored it and ate her prize. considering Huskeys are considered just as hard headed if you figer out a solution I too would like to know!