Furniture Should Be For Humans, Not For Pets

For those of you that have cats or dogs (or maybe even rabbits), you’ll know just how difficult it can be keeping them off the furniture. For some reason, pets love to lie on your beds, sit on your couch and even hide in your wardrobes. 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 methods for stopping this happening however, lets take a look at three of the most successful.

Training. When all is said and done, investing the time in training your pet correctly will stop it ruining 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’. Ideally you should train your pets that furniture is for humans and not for 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 training your pets was never on the agenda and now they respect you as much as their fleas do, you’ll need to tackle the problem head on. You can buy certain powders and sprays that cats, dogs and other animals simply detest. These products often smell quite citrusy, which is one of the worst possible smells for pets as their noses are too sensitive for it.

Discipline. This ties in with training, but even pets that have had no training at all with still respond to correct discipline. 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. There is nothing more confusing to an animal than being told off for something one day and allowed to do it the next without being told off.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.