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Keeping Your Pets Off The Furniture
Anyone who has had pets will testify to how hard it is sometimes to ensure they don’t jump all over your furniture. Like it or not, pets seem to have a fascination with jumping on your bed, lounging on your sofa and even exploring your wardrobe every now and then. It would be fine if they just sat nicely and were clean, but as we know this is often not true of pets. Instead they claw at your bedding, chew up your couch and get mud all over your lovely white wardrobes. There are methods for stopping this happening however, lets take a look at three of the most successful.
Training. It is only by making sure your pets are trained well that you will ensure they keep off your expensive living room and bedroom-furniture. If you can train your pets early in their life then you stand the best chance, because as the saying goes, ‘you can’t teach and old dog new tricks’. Ideally you should train your pets that furniture is for humans and not for them. But if you do chose to let your pets on the furniture, you should at least train them to listen to you when you tell them to get down.
Pet deterrents. If your lovely pets don’t listen to you and have no respect for your property whatsoever, you may need to be a little bit craftier in your approach. You can buy different types of pet repellent spays and powders that they can’t stand the smell of. These tend to have quite citrusy smells that are pleasant to humans but are too much for animals with sensitive smell.
Discipline. If you have trained your pet then they will respond better to discipline, but any animal will learn if you go about it the right way. This doesn’t mean that you should hit your pets every time they jump on the chair or bedside cabinets, but instead be consistent with how you react when they do. Make sure you don’t let them get away with lying on the bed one day, only to chastise them the next.Provide a good amount of praise when your pets behave, and only tell them off using a loud voice and by moving them firmly from anywhere they shouldn’t be.