Damned four-legged fiend strikes again!

[thewayne]

This time the casualties were a bag and a half of Pepperidge English muffins plus most of a bar of Swiss dark chocolate with orange.

This is getting ridiculous. I have no problem with giving the poodle an occasional apple, but this counter surfing is getting to be a bit much. That's probably $15 in groceries in less than a week and leaves me with nothing for breakfast as my normal breakfast is one English muffin with peanut butter on it. I've no rice milk for cereal, so I guess it's unthaw the last of my organic chicken apple sausage and finish off the eggs.

Decidedly not a happy camper.

Comments

[cteare.livejournal.com]

Looks like you need higher counters or a smaller dog. I don't have to worry about ours getting anything on the counters. The largest is my PWC, he only weighs in at 27 lbs, and has very short legs.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I'm considering putting a kid's screening door on the kitchen to keep her out when we're not at home.

[cardigirl.livejournal.com]

A wise and practical solution. Also one my mom had to do, eventually, with her counter-surfing pointer.

[cteare.livejournal.com]

Ours stay in their crates when we're not home. Our oldest Pap likes to chew electrical cords. We've found it safer to keep them confined. But my husband and I work different schedules, so they don't have to stay in the crates for extended periods.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

We currently don't have a crate, don't know how the dog would react. She was born/raised by breeders, so it might work ok. But a lot of her mischef happens when one or both of us is here and asleep, so I don't know if crating would help.

Fortunately she doesn't (YET!) chew on things like electrical cords or network cables.

[cteare.livejournal.com]

A lot of our foster dogs aren't crate trained when we get them. That's one of the first things we work on. This last one whined a lot about it, but now he runs into his crate without any problem, because he knows he'll get a treat, and he has special toys in there.

[cardigirl.livejournal.com]

Owned by a Pem! Yay! My guys are both Cardis... ;)

[cteare.livejournal.com]

Yup! 1 Pem and 3 paps.

[cardigirl.livejournal.com]

And I saw on your own LJ you do fostering.

*bows with respect*

[cteare.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Yeah, in fact we have a foster right now, so that's 5 dogs to wrangle in the mornings before work. It can make things a bit hectic.