Dogs, too, like furniture. Some people, of course, love to fall to the floor, but the furniture is still there in every house. Like humans, dogs can have problems with joints, why they may be painful to lie on the floor.
If you do not want the dog lying on your upholstered furniture, make it soft and warm stove. It does not require large expenditures. Buy a special piece with a cell structure, which fill mattresses, cut away a piece of appropriate size and wrap it in an old sheet - is a bed fit for a dog that loves cool.
If your dog is thermophilic, instead of sheets, use old blanket. Some dogs need warm in the cold season and cool - in warm weather.
Correct start.
If the dog is already accustomed to lying on upholstered furniture, it will be difficult to wean. If you want your dog does not climbed on chairs and sofas, you should install a clear rule for all family members. This means that your whole family must unite to combat this habit in the dog. An uninitiated person can forget all your efforts and bring a dog into confusion.
Do not leave your puppy alone in the environment of furniture, until you have completed his training. Someone must always watch him (you'll need to do in any case - to accustom the puppy to the house and teach him to chew only dog toys). Round up the dog from furniture quietly. It is best to never touch it at this point, but you can gently lower the puppy or small dog on the floor. Puppies and small dogs can cause injury himself, jumping off the sofa or chair.
More than most large dogs safely and effectively lure and / or give a command that she got off the furniture, and reward her when he will again be on the floor. People often show aggression towards dogs, abruptly dropping them with furniture. This may cause a defensive reaction from the dog and just hurt her, especially if she has health problems. Orthopedic diseases, both hereditary and acquired, are very common among dogs. Often this is the cause of aggressive behavior dog when she was forced to get up from her comfortable position and jump onto the floor.
If in your house has appeared an adult dog, use the leash during her training, so that you could easily expel it from the furniture. If your dog is aggressive, you can also use a muzzle to protect yourself.
Do not drag the dog by the leash. Causes it to jump on the floor with a weakened leash, do not pull it. Leash - this is also a precaution, just in case. Just do not grab the dog by the scruff of the neck and do not use other methods of physical restraint, if you do not want to use the leash. This can be dangerous.
Keep yourself in their hands. You teach a dog to do what you want, do not scold or punish her if she does something wrong. This applies to all members of your family, which, as appropriate, will remind the dog that she could not lie on the furniture.
Remember that dogs need a comfortable place to rest. You have to show her where you can relax, and not only - where you can not. So you need to make a comfortable bed for the dog.
Place the bed closer to the people - you may need a few lezhanok for the dog - the dog was not isolated from society. Social isolation - a punishment for the dog, but you have to reward the dog for good behavior.
Reward the dog on the spot of rest. Do this after you give the dog a command to go to the place, and when you see that the dog went to the place itself, without your team. As a reward, use the little treats, special chewing toys, praise, petting, toys with food inside and the other joys that a dog can enjoy resting in its place.
If you start to train a puppy from the very beginning, he had never appears habits zalazim for furniture. The dog, which moved into your house, as more "teachable" because in her life seen so much new, that it is becoming more open to new rules and habits.
Oops, a habit.
When the dog already has the habit to climb on furniture, to wean it much more difficult than to form the correct habits from the beginning. Perhaps the dog and will always climb to the upholstered furniture in the absence of owners. You have to isolate the dog from furniture to your absence. Maybe it will be necessary to do this several times, and may have to do it all my life.
Rooms with furniture on which the dog loves to climb - a bedroom, living room and probably a common room - should be closed so that she could not get them without the help of man. Another way - to close somewhere the dog itself, but it's still close the room with furniture, then the dog will be more space, and it can warm up your muscles and joints.
Some believe that the deterrent rug (they are sold in pet stores) will help to teach the dog to stay away from upholstered furniture. It acts on a dog discharge of electric current. Naturally, you can not scare away a sofa bed on the carpet, when they themselves are sitting on it. When using electric shocks to the risk the appearance of the dog "superstitious behavior" (it appears the fear or aggression towards what happened at the same time, when it struck electric).
Some dogs like to climb higher, so for all to observe. To wean her from this, it is necessary to close it with a review of furniture or give it a better view from a different place. Perhaps, we should rearrange the furniture.
Compromise.
Popular solution to this problem - the use of protective covers for furniture. It may be special cases of different shapes, made specifically for a particular type of furniture, or just the sheets, cotton and sherstyanyeodeyala, etc. that need to make a bed on the couch to protect it from dog hair and dirt. Then, you can let the dog lie on the couch. You can also teach the dog not to jump on the couch, while it does not postelyut veil.
Another solution - make the dog a piece of furniture on which to rest it alone. You can use for this purpose, an old sofa. It should be located in that part of the house where the dog wants to be, next to the place where the owners usually take a rest.
Why? If all family members are adults, and all are easy to ensure that the dog lying on the sofa, there is no need to wean the dog from furniture. But think well before you make that choice.
Puppy should not be allowed to furniture, until they finally grow up (do not reach sexual maturity). At this point, it becomes clear that some of them NIZACHTO can not fend for furniture because of the unbearable nature.
Puppies and small dogs may be traumatized, jumping off the furniture. If you choose to allow your dog to rest on the furniture, you should teach her not to jump off while it does not withdraw or do for her "hill" and learn to use it.
If there is a child, it is better not to teach the dog to the furniture. A small child can come to the couch on which the sleeping dog and frighten her. Person the child will be just at the level of the dog, she might bite a baby face and disfigure him for life. If you do not have small children, what about the grandchildren or other relatives, children, friends, etc.? And if now you do not have children, what will happen in 5 or 10 years when you will still be the dog and its habits have not changed?
If there is a someone who can not stand dog hair on your clothes, or if you are going to receive visitors and do not want to give them discomfort in the form of fur on their clothes, you should not teach the dog to the furniture. Remember that the later you try to change the rules of behavior of your dog, the harder it is to do. It is better to train at once.
Although you can not imagine that your dog ever have to get used to a new home, so very often happens in the life of dogs. If you break a dog to climb on furniture, in the future it will be easier to get used to the new house.
"Outside of furniture" - is a good habit that it would be nice to instill to your dog, especially if it is a puppy. If the dog's temperament and circumstances change, and the dog will be allowed to share with your furniture, you can easily re-educate her. Agree, would be rather strange if the dog does not want to climb on the couch (even if it did not do so for several years) if the owner himself will ask her about it.