Making Sure Your Pets Stay 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. For some reason, pets love to lie on your beds, sit on your couch and even hide in your wardrobes. 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. Don’t keep pulling your hair out though, here are some tips on keeping the pesky pets off.

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 are lucky enough to be able to provide training from a young age then your pets will be more receptive to new training when they are older as well. You should instill the idea in your pets that furniture is for the use of people and not 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 you forgot to train your pets when they were young and now they just wont pay attention to you, you might need more direct action. Available from pet stores are products that you spray or sprinkle on your furniture to repel pets. They are often citric acid based, which is fine for humans, but pets, with their sensitive noses, don’t like it at all.

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.You should let them know your not happy by using short sharp noises and directing them out of the room, but make sure you praise them when they respond well to your requests.

Stocking Fillers That Are The Genuine Dog’s

Looking for those last minute Xmas gifts?Perhaps it’s a case of novelty stuff to use as stocking fillers? Don’t stick with the usual hum drum rubbish that bruises the Satsuma or the crisp red apple in the toe! Get imaginative and creative with your stocking fillers and give gifts that will generate a wow factor long beyond the turkey-filled tedium of Boxing Day!

Christmas gifts for pet lovers are notoriously difficult. Do you buy for the moggie or pooch or for the doting owner? People who treat their animals as almost human and describe themselves as the dog or cat’s “mummy” or “daddy” are clearly lacking in basic knowledge of the human reproductive system. The ideal gift would be something that panders to the almost parental obsession some people have that their dog or cat is “really clever” and “only hides in the bedroom furniture for meditation purposes”, with fantastic stocking fillers tailored to that anthropomorphic delusion.But how to prove that without the evidence of your dog actually completing the crossword or finding unfinished Sudoku’s in his basket?Where’s the video of the mutt driving (a Rover presumably)! No, you need to find out once and for all if your mutt is top dog in the brain department so you can justify your claims for his intelligence!

Gifts for him who is convinced he can talk to the animals and wants to answer that burning question come no better than “How Smart is your Dog?” It’s a self-scoring intelligence test developed by a genuine Canadian psychology professor. Carefully designed and researched tests will determine the Canine Intelligence Quotient (CIQ) of your mutt. Five of the tests asses problem solving, while the other seven deal with learning ability and memory. With a test book, score and result guide, and a stopwatch for timing the results, this IQ Test has everything you need to prove that your dog’s not stupid. The only thing to watch out for is the worrying possibility that the dog might end up with a higher IQ score than you!