How To Ensure Your Pets Keep Off The Furniture

Keeping pets off your new furniture is not an easy task, as any one with experience in the mater will confirm. 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. This wouldn’t be so much of an issue if they just sat that there, but this is rarely the case. Instead they claw at your bedding, chew up your couch and get mud all over your lovely white wardrobes. There are ways to prevent this happening though; here are 3 of the best.

Training. First and foremost a pet that has been trained well will not misbehave and ruin your lovely 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’. If you can teach them that the furniture is not their plaything, but instead for their owners to use, that is great. 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 repellents. 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. You can buy different types of pet repellent spays and powders that they can’t stand the smell of. 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. Use loud short noises to tell them no, and praise them when they don’t jump up.

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