This is a new thing - my 2 year old retriever has been good as gold about being left in the kitchen up to now. We have an open plan kitchen diner, so I can't exclude her from the food. Recently, she has taken to jumping up when our backs are turned and stealing food - e.g., half a loaf of bread last week, and just now, I'd left an open Lurpak spreadable on the counter whilst I attended to my 5 year old in the other room, came back, and she'd jumped up, taken it off the counter and eaten half of it.
She is walked for at least 90 minutes a day, we are around at home and the four children play with her a lot, so I don't think that it's boredom - more that she's learnt that she can do it.
HOW do I stop her doing this?! Any ideas? Obviously, at the moment, I have to now put everything away and can't leave her for a second, but it would be nice to get back to the situation we were in before when I could trust her not to steal food.
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Panicmode1 · 06/04/2017 17:35
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