One of my roommates likes to make large elaborate meals (and to be fair to him he's a great cook). But it takes him a while to clean up after himself (like a day). The problem is that I have a dog that I just adopted a few months ago (with the whole house's approval and excitement). Since it's my dog, I do all the training, exercising, and management of the dog (which I love - I'm a dog person). I spend hours a day training and exercising him and am fairly adamant about training so that I can ensure that he learns to be a good canine citizen.
I'm really careful to clean up the kitchen / common areas to make sure there's no food laying around whenever I'm leaving the dog alone so that he doesn't learn to snatch food and other things off of the counters. However, my roommate isn't so careful. I have a webcam pointed at the kitchen/living room so I can check up on the dog during the day while I'm at work and I've seen the dog go up onto the counter and get food a few times. Also last week, I wasn't home and my roommate made a big meal then went outside to eat it with his girlfriend, leaving my dog alone in the house with the uncleaned mess. I happened to come home while they were outside and saw that there was a big mess and my dog alone with all of the food on the counter. I reminded him to please clean up if he was going to leave the dog alone, and he was kind of like "I just made it I just want to eat the meal with my girlfriend" and I was like "yeah I get it I just don't want the dog to get food off the counters". Similar situations have happened multiple times where I've had to remind him to clean up before leaving the dog alone.
So am I being unreasonable? I end up cleaning the kitchen all the time after him to get rid of the counter food. Is that just my cross to bear as the dog owner? I feel like it's not crazy to ask someone to clean up after themselves, but I understand that the dog adds an additional factor. I don't mind if he leaves them out for hours, as long as he is still in the kitchen/living room, since the dog won't counter-surf unless no one else is in the room. Thoughts?
Ecollar training using stim, vibration for Dog Pulling, Jumping,, Counter surfing, Barking--need tips please
Of course there are tons of videos and some PDF files out there but I do not see any that really address in a step by step fashion (with a trained dog in the video) to help prevent:
Dog Pulling
Barking
Dog jumping on people
Dog getting up on hind legs to counter surf.
Thanks for any advice. Would like to try myself with good advice before I go to a trainer.
Thank you
Peter
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