Dec 12

Making Sure Your Pets Stay Off The Furniture

Keeping pets off your new furniture is not an easy task, as any one with experience in the mater will confirm. For some reason, pets love to lie on your beds, sit on your couch and even hide in your wardrobes. Owners probably wouldn’t mind if they didn’t do any harm whilst on the furntiure, but this is often not the case. 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. First and foremost a pet that has been trained well will not misbehave and ruin your lovely living room and bedroom-furniture. Training your pets from a young age is the best way as they tend to become more and more stubborn as they get older. You should instill the idea in your pets that furniture is for the use of people and not them. But at the very least they should know which places they are not allowed and to listen to your commands to get off anything they shouldn?t be on.

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. 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. Don?t tell them off one day and then turn a blind eye the next as this will just confuse. Use loud short noises to tell them no, and praise them when they don?t jump up.

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