Help! Jumps up on kitchen counter!!

[kdiner]

In the kitchen too!

Nestle started jumping on the counters a few weeks ago..especially when we cook anything with rice or hamburger meat! She was sick with an upset tummy about a month ago and couldn't keep her food down...so we fed here rice and humburger meat...so I suppose now when she smells it ...she thinks supper time!!

The off command works occasionally and we have negatively conditioned her to these metal discs we drop and that doesn't even phase her...we are looking into baby gates to say the least!

 

[luvfritz]

I learned with Fritzi - always leave food on top of the fridge and never on the counter. Even at 4 yrs old - if the opportunity arises she will counter surf That coke can idea sounded good if you can't move things higher.

 

[boxermom5]

After reading this thread - I must just be really blessed.

Tenaia lives for helping in the kitchen with dinner (literally) - she puts her paws on the counter and watches everything. She is allowed to sniff but not touch, and she knows she needs to be careful around the stove (though sometimes she forgets). I don't know if it is because she is allowed to look when I am there, but she has never taken anything from the countertop on her own, and we make a point of putting the dogs in a sit before giving them any "tastes".

Tess is just plain lazy so she doesn't get up to the counter much even with coaxing - I've even caught her trying to eat (her bowl is elevated about 10 inches) while laying on the floor!

I had a dobie once that stole a very hot apple pie off the counter Needless to say, that was the last time she ever even looked up there!

 

[maxhazy]

I have heard also before to put empty coke cans or a empty can full of pennies on the counter, because the noise when they stick there paws on the counter will startle them. Also I have seen where they told you to buy babygate to keep him out of the room. Make sure you buy a absoultely safe one,and never under estimate how hight a boxer can jump. You mite want to look into crate training him until you feel safe other wise. We tried the baby gate thing because max hated going in the crate when we left, and it it was a nitemare, we had gotten two really good hard plastic gates and stacked them together cause max jumped so high with liveing a couple inches in between, which was just engough room for him to think he could go threw. We got home to find our all white boxer with two black eyes and blood all over him. Still to this day we dont know how he didnt hang himself. And from the day after Max went into a crate until recently we can now trust max alone.