To throw my welly at the dog

[LadyBeagleEyes]

I had southern fried chicken nuggets (from M&S no less) for my teen son. He loves them (I hate them)so I made some chips and had a (very) occasional steak for myself which ds does't like.
My dog jumped on the counter and nicked my steak, so I threw said welly at him
(I did miss) but now he's skulking around glaring at me.
He knows how cross I am, and I'm sitting here ignoring him even though he keeps trying to catch my eye, and when he does he wags his tail.
So do I ignore him or do I forgive?
How will he learn, I'm just so cross?
The nicking things of the counter is coming more prevalent, I adore him but I know that he's already forgotten why I'm annoyed and me huffing doesn't do it really, does it.
I put this on AIBU because I'm not sure if it should be on the doghouse or relationships.

Goodness it is so hard. I cannot imagine how other people manage to prevent their dogs from jumping up on cabinets and dragging people along on the lead.

Awaiting the day when dog licences come back and every ahole who just "wants" a dog can't get a dog.

I bet your dog pulls on the lead OP

hairy, I've managed to reach my 40s without ill effect from dogs in the kitchen and I suspect that I'm not alone. I know that anecdotes don't equal data but I reckon that I'm not unusual in my dog-owning good health!

Val - I find you and I again on the same thread saying the same things.

I was ripped up the other day for being honest about a poster wanting to buy a designer cat rather than rescuing one. Ah well!

Nice derailment of a lighthearted thread then.

Val - perhaps you and I, and many many other excellent dog owners, would wonder how people fail to keep their dogs off kitchen tops, without permission, or fail to stop their dogs dragging them from lampost to tree.

Very sad thing IMO is that "people" will more than often blame the dog rather than looking at the ahole on the end of the lead.

Bingo

TakeMeDrunkImHome , you just proved a point

well done

Our dog used to steal selection boxes. No matter how well we hid them.

My dog nicked three greggs sausage rolls of the kitchen table he wasn't fussy about his food

Yes he pulls Takeme.
But I live in a village in one of the remotest parts of the Highlands, where my front door leads to mountains and from my back door a walk round the shore of a loch where he can run and swim without a soul in sight,.
His recall is crap but the chance of anything ever happening to him is negligble.sp, but I still want him to come back when i call him.
I actually know the name and owner of every dog in the village.
I'm lucky to live in a place where dogs don't get in the way of people and vice versa.

Sounds lovely Lady ,when can I visit

My eldest cat nicked a steak whilst it was being fried in a cast iron skillet.

I came in the kitchen to find the cat eating the steak on the floor whilst his brother was pawing at the mushrooms on the worktop

Usualsuspect
Ad why did you have 3 Greggs sausage rolls? Not planning to eat them, were you?

Next you will be telling us that the dog drinks frootshoots

Lady
Oh, now I am nosy about where you live. Sounds fab

You're welcome anytime Usual.

Not fruit shoots no ,but he loved to drink your tea if you left your cup anywhere he could reach

I want a tea drinking dog

LadyBeagle, I think you are living in my dog's dream house.

Many a time I left my cup on the coffee table to come back to an empty cup and a dog with a guilty look in his eye

Just train the dog not to pull. It is so bloody easy. I perhaps came across a bit OTT and nasty. Was not the intention. Although, I cannot STAND seeing dog owners who allow their dogs to pull when it is perhaps one of the easiest things to teach a dog.

When he pulls, you walk. Teaches him = I pull, she/he walks. Dog is training you.

Err TakeMe, weren't you the only person to mention pulling?

Nope sorry, Lady said he pulls

'Pulls' suddenly looks like a really wrong word, when typed