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Post by gsdgroupie on Jul 3, 2020 20:30:22 GMT
A lie-in? Can't remember what that is!  We live in a bungalow and we have tiled floors in a number of rooms and Gus in particular, has noisy claws, so when he starts walking about in the early hours, it always wakes me up. Husband sleeps all through it, of course!  |
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Post by foxyjess on Jul 4, 2020 6:18:08 GMT
Haha yep!
Lilah DID sleep downstairs last night but jumped on my bed at 5:30am this morning. Ugh.
I’d just got the little human in to a routine that meant she didn’t wake me too early then I went and got a dog. I’m a sucker for punishment!!
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Post by gtrmacs on Jul 4, 2020 13:42:32 GMT
Baby gate on the bedroom??
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Post by foxyjess on Jul 4, 2020 16:06:32 GMT
Baby gate on the bedroom?? She’d cry the house down..... I have a stair gate at the bottom of the stairs. I guess I could try closing it when she has decided to sleep down there and see what happens - although I would expect crying and barking when she wants to come up. Don’t want to spoil a good thing either. Hmmmmm, decisions! |
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Post by gtrmacs on Jul 4, 2020 16:49:55 GMT
Verbal command/consistency keep Tasha out of our bedroom - the kitchen's another thing, tho'  We've _still_ got a baby-gate on the kitchen, and we shut a _lot_ of doors if she's being left for any length of time. I look at it as helping her to behave, she finds the cat bowls in the kitchen, the compost tub on the worktop and the packets of (human) biscuits in the cellar _too_ tempting  Getting better, tho' ... |
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Post by goodie on Jul 4, 2020 17:23:22 GMT
We have never had gates, Axel can go wherever he wants, apart from hubby's hobby room, which is out of bounds for Axel (for his own and hubby's good). When we had cats, I used to keep the cat food bowls on a higher level so the dogs could not reach them. When we leave Axel on his own, he can go anywhere he likes. So far (touch wood) nothing untoward has happened. There was of course the puppy chewing phase where he went for wallpaper and kitchen tiles, but that happened when we were around. I think as they mature they know what to do. You got a cellar Brian??? Lucky!!!
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Post by foxyjess on Jul 4, 2020 21:51:44 GMT
Ah yeah I’m not sure the house would survive leaving her to roam! Mind you she is only (almost) 5 months and the teeth are dropping out thick and fast right now so she’s chewier than ever. Not going to miss this phase truth be told!!!
I’ve come to bed and closed the gate as she chose to stay downstairs.
I’ll let you know what happens!!!!
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Post by caryll on Jul 5, 2020 6:33:09 GMT
Ah yeah I’m not sure the house would survive leaving her to roam! That would be my fear! None of my dogs have ever NOT chewed as pups. Better safe than sorry. Once they're 'trustworthy' I'm happy to allow them to roam.
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Post by gtrmacs on Jul 5, 2020 13:53:25 GMT
We have never had gates ... Ours is for training new (or visiting) dogs to treat the cats properly. It's still in place because Tasha's got other foibles where the gate helps ... You got a cellar Brian??? Lucky!!! Half cellar - covers front wall to start of rear extension over half the floor area. A lot of Victorian terraces don't have proper foundations, so the cellar with inward-tapering walls is supporting the house!! Coal would have been delivered straight to the cellar. I damp-proofed and floored it, shelved with a mixture of custom built and Ikea shelving. Very handy 
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Post by gtrmacs on Jul 5, 2020 13:56:06 GMT
None of my dogs have ever NOT chewed as pups. Better safe than sorry ... Ozzy (who was 4.5yrs when we got him) had bad S/A - he was steadily working his way _through_ a mahogany front door I had to screw steel plates to it!!
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We live in a bungalow and we have tiled floors in a number of rooms and Gus in particular, has noisy claws, so when he starts walking about in the early hours, it always wakes me up. Husband sleeps all through it, of course! 
We've _still_ got a baby-gate on the kitchen, and we shut a _lot_ of doors if she's being left for any length of time. I look at it as helping her to behave, she finds the cat bowls in the kitchen, the compost tub on the worktop and the packets of (human) biscuits in the cellar _too_ tempting 
Getting better, tho' ...
