Many owners of cats and dogs complain that their pets steal food from a table. Some reconcile to such behavior of the favourite, but actually such tricks need to be stopped. How to disaccustom an animal to steal from a table?
If you decided to get a pet, it will present to you many joyful minutes. The main thing – from the first day of stay in your house to be engaged in his education, otherwise not to avoid disappointments. One of the most widespread problems is that the animal steals food from a table. Why it occurs and how to fight against it?
The reasons for which the animal steals food from a table
If you do not want your cat or a dog to steal tidbits from a table, then never treat an animal during the meal. Otherwise it quickly will understand that owners on a table always have something much more tasty, than in its bowl, and will not fail to use it. Besides, do not leave food on a table when you leave the house – do not tempt an animal and do not provoke to steal emergence of an addiction in it from a table.
How to disaccustom an animal to theft of food
If at your cat or a dog the habit to elicit food during a meal of owners and to be enough the pieces which fell from a table was already created, it is necessary to get rid of it. Try to throw specially on a floor tidbits and when the animal directs to them, splash it the newspaper or sprinkle water from a spray. Thus at your pet the relationship of cause and effect will quickly enough be created, and it will cease to be interested in the fact that it is on a table.
By the same principle also scaring away of an animal by means of a tin box works with coins inside. If you see that your pet shows interest in the food which is on a table or fallen to a floor, then stir up this box or throw it towards forbidden delicacy. Animals are frightened loud sounds, and your pet will quickly acquire that the forbidden behavior is followed by an unpleasant and frightening sound; soon he will stop trying to steal food at your presence. It was necessary only to fix a lesson and to let an animal know that the absence of the owner under review does not mean that it is possible to steal food from a table. For this purpose leave on the edge of a table appetizingly smelling delicacy – for example, a piece of meat – and tie to it a thin thread a tin jar with coins inside. When the animal grabs a tidbit, the jar will fall and will ring out – it will be for you a signal to come into the room and to abuse the pet. After the precedent repeats several times, it will acquire that to take food from a table is forbidden and fraught with a loud ring and censure of the owner.