Ah the garbage spilling, yes Daisy has done this since she was a puppy. We have given up stopping her and just put the trash can up on the counter if we leave her home alone. But if we forget, we read that you should not let your dog see you cleaning up her mess or she will think you are her maid or something like that... so we send her outside (And she knows she'd in trouble, she looks very guilty and sad after we yell at her) and clean it up. SweetiePIE, what kind of trouble does your dog get in? How old is he?