How do you keep your large dogs off furniture?

Tabby2727

I have 2 large dogs (bullmastiff and a lab) that are use to getting on the couch, I eventually want to get a new leather couch but would like to break them from getting on the one we have now.  They do really well while we're at home by laying in their doggy beds.  Aluminum foil use to work to keep them off of it while we weren't at home but some how they figured out how to push it out of the way and get up there anyway.  What do you do, other then caging/crating them? Thank you.

MrsR0908

My Lab is an outside dog. No way she will ever be inside. She is way to hyper and I don't have the patience..

sorry I am no help. lol

 

MrsR0908

MrsR0908:

My Lab is an outside dog. No way she will ever be inside. She is way to hyper and I don't have the patience..

sorry I am no help. lol

 

* I don't have patience with the dog.. lol..  

Starlette1983

I have a large lab too, and I wanted to stop him from coming on the couches so I started piling blankets and pillows on them to take up all the room. ?Like during the day, when DH is gone, I pile a big fleece blanket on his recliner to keep the dog off.

ETA: ?or laundry baskets worked too.

Tabby2727

There's an idea!  I could put all of Hannah's toys there instead of scattered all over the floor.   THANKS!  That'll probably work!

jess478

For about a year we covered the furniture when we left.  The couch was covered with 2 chairs from the dining set and the chair was covered with a foot stool.  Now we don't have to since soon as we leave our Golden naps on the bed in the guest room... that is after she checks to see if we left the gate to the kitchen open by accident.   

Caroline&Stephen

Can you corral them using baby gates?  We used to put wood panels or a kitchen chair on our couches to keep our labs off.

kit443

I don't. They like to be comfy LOL.

b15chik

My dog is always in his kennel when we're not home. I don't let him on the couch either. It's brown and he's too hairy. There are too many things he can get into when we're not here, kennel is the safest place for him anyway

NDwife07

MrsR0908:

My Lab is an outside dog. No way she will ever be inside. She is way to hyper and I don't have the patience..

sorry I am no help. lol

 

That makes me really sad.

 Anywho.

We keep our boxer off the couch by training her to stay down. It was hard at first because we used to let her up on anything to snuggle, but we just started telling her "off", and then rewarding when she got down. Now she asks to come up (we usually say no, sometimes we let her).

courtneyaok

If you look online at Invisible Fence, they have a product that looks like one of those mats for underneath your office chair (it's got the little spikys on the bottom) turned upside down.  I've though about getting an office mat, cutting it up, and doing that.

KOscar

When we're gone we put those office chair mats on our couches.  They're plastic with little plastic points on the bottom of them.  We put them point side up.  It's worked for us as well as one of our friends.  One mat can be cut up to fit onto two couches.

MrsR0908

NDwife07:

MrsR0908:

My Lab is an outside dog. No way she will ever be inside. She is way to hyper and I don't have the patience..

sorry I am no help. lol

 

That makes me really sad.

 Anywho.

We keep our boxer off the couch by training her to stay down. It was hard at first because we used to let her up on anything to snuggle, but we just started telling her "off", and then rewarding when she got down. Now she asks to come up (we usually say no, sometimes we let her).

Sorry that makes you sad but I like the way my house looks on the inside. She eats everything. Infact, she ate the back door frame, patio furniture, the posts on the fence and whatever else she could find in the backyard.  

Some dogs just aren't meant to be inside dogs.