The knee thing worked wonders when RB Max was a puppy. Having an 80 poung hyper puppy jumping up on ur hurt & was anoying.

I use the spray bottle thing here with Cadeau. Cadeau loves to pee & poo all over the basement (I have to live down there), its along story why the dogs (2) do this. Cadeau also loves the trash as 1pm EVERY night. When the trash bag was at the top of the basement stairs & could hear her getting into all night long. So I would hide & leave the baby gate open just a bit. She would open it all the way & walk down the 2 steps to the trash. I would run quietly (I'm an expert at being quiet) & slam the gate closed so she was trapped. I would spray her & keep doing it untill she would cry several times (she HATES water) & let her go.. the dogs don't understand ANY commands (they littterly run wild) So water works just fine.

But my water bottle broke & after a month shes started coming into the basement again & its a sick mes down there