How to train your dog to stay out of the kitchen.
We have an island in our kitchen and he is not allowed past the island. We give the command "Out of the kitchen" and direct him past that imaginary line. Of course when we started doing that and still once in a while we treat when he stays out of the kitchen. Since day one, he's been learning "out of the kitchen". He used to like to make drive-by lickings of the floor, and the occasional sniff of the counter top. He has never, belive it or not, he has never counter surfed and taken anything. We trynot to tempt fate and keep everything out of reach anyway, but he is just SOO GOOD about that. One of the scariest moments was when Joan was leaning into the hot oven to retrieve a roast pan and Mulligan came up behind her and.... fortunately, she didn't lose her balance. But her shout really unnerved Mulligan, and that may have actually helped in the training. So after a year and a half he's learning pretty good about staying "out of the kitchen". He doesn't do many drive-bys anymore and the nose doesn't get bumped by the fridge anymore. Not too often, anyway. 
Has anyone successfully trained their dog to respect an invisible boundary by positive training mehtods? Thanks. |
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| Funny, we do the opposite we have Remy trained to "Go to the Kitchen"...we simply say KITCHEN, usually where we send her when we don't want her by us, or need to leave the front door open and don;t want her to bolt.
She knows to stay, but once in awhile we find her creeping out to be with us again. She's very quiet when she wants to be, and we sometimes forget we sent her there, and before we realize she has parked herself beside the furniture hoping we won;t notice. So we repeat KITCHEN, then in a few min we invite her back out with us, she knows the boundary line, and is good about it without us actually training her. But we try and "release" her, so she gets the idea. If that makes any sense. She's not a counter surfer, or gets in the way of the stove. |
| My parents dogs have always been trained to stay out of the kitchen, and I don;t remember it ever taking much effort, but then they learned as puppies.
My dogs are not allowed upstairs, and it's not something I really had to train, they were just never allowed so they never try. |
| WHAT!? How do you think my floors are cleaned? My refrigerator shelves are licked clean and any leftover food is eliminated?
I can't affort Merry Maids so I use the Pyr-ly English Maids. s. |
| HA! Yours are floor cleaners too? When we drop something, all I have
to do is say Floor! and they both come running to clean it up, that is, if they didn't hear it hit the floor. We have always given the command Go, and we point, and the dogs give us several feet of space. If we say it more than once they go farther. We have always been in the habit of giving a hand command along with the verbal because we were taught that by our very first trainer. It really helped in the long run since one of our dogs went deaf. Now we just do it that way. We also taught our older dog to go to the corner by the front door this way. So when he is in trouble or there is a situation happening, we point and say corner and he goes there and waits. It is a spot he has always liked so it has never really been a punishment to him. My dogs love the attic except in the heat of summer. The only place my dogs don't go it the basement. Our first day at this house one of our dogs fell down the basement steps while checking out the new house. We never really encouraged them to go down after that. I wished we had when the tornado came through, cause there we were with the baby and trying to wrestle two dogs to the basement! It wasn't pretty. My kitchen really can't be out of bounds though since it has the door to the back yard. All the traffic goes through the kitchen. Amazing how clean they have kept my floor this week! Shellie |
| Ron, many many years ago, before our sheepie days, we owned a wonderful cross kelpie/border collie. She was actually a stray enticed in by our then six year old. She lived with us for about 12 years and was a wonderful companion. Anyway she always came into the house in the evening and in the winter she would take the warmest place in our lounge, right in front of the gas heater.
In the lounge we had a white carpet and one day Hindo trotted into the lounge and across the carpet. Without thinking I yelled at her and told her to get off the carpet, which she did. From that day for the rest of her life she never walked across the carpet. She always went around it. No training on my part. Just a very intelligent dog. I don't think we appreciated her as much as we should have. I know she would have been a wonderful obedience dog. |
| Ha Ha Ha boy that would be some sort of miracle to keep food generated sheepie girls out of the Kitchen. I don't know how many times I have stepped backwards and nearly fallen over one. They creep into the Kitchen so quietly and lay down on the floor waiting for anything that might come there way. They are a great vacuum cleaner too for accidental spills, crumbs or slops.
We just got a new fridge and sheepie girls think it is wonderful, you know the saying "Two heads are better then One"!! Well that applies now as bigger fridge and they can both get there heads in at the same time now to check out what yummy things live in there  Use to be take turns, now there is no waiting when the fridge door is opened. 
Oinkers both of them  |
| I've started insisting that Maggie and Chummie get out of the kitchen when I am cooking or preparing their dinners. My kitchen has a narrow entry, so I use a sweeping hand motion while saying "Out" then I stand on the threshold until they sit.
Maggie got it right away and now she rarely enters the kitchen at all (when I am home -- which is really all I care about). She just automatically lies down a few feet away from the entrance and waits. Chum is another story. She sits excitedly on the threshold and everytime she hears a new noise, she pops in and takes a look. I stop what I am doing and scoot her out basically by crowding her. She will do this ten times in a row, every meal, but I am still trying. I think if I would start rewarding Maggie for her correct behavior, maybe that would help. Right now, the only consequence is that we are all delayed. |
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