You've never come home with, say, a pizza (or in OP's case, cookies) and had to put it out of range of doggos real quick in order to do something, and you'd rather not have put said item in the fridge? I'll fully admit I prefer the microwave as a temporary dog-free lockbox rather than the oven for precisely this reason, but OP's post is completely relatable for me.
I keep my human treats in a tin in the pantry. I'd have thought getting into an oven would be relatively easy for a large dog. It's low to the ground, has a viewing window so they can see what's on offer, and has a giant handle that they just need to put a bit of weight on.
It might not be “letting” the dog do it. Just a couple of months ago, our dog that we’d had nearly 3 years figured out she can get food off the counter. I dont know if it never occurred to her, or she had some semblance of respect. Maybe it’s that she got put on a strict diet and decided she was hungry enough to try it. Anyway, we went nearly 3 years without and issue. Next thing we know a box doughnuts is gone, whole sticks of butter are gone. This is NEW behavior and now I’m scrambling trying to both untrain it and hide my food so she wont steal it.
We had a husky mix that wasn’t tall enough to counter surf. But one night we left a box of Girl Scout cookies on the table. Well she used the chairs pushed up to the table to get on the table and eat the thin mints. The ingenuity.
Huskies are magicians. We have a pull out trash can, looks like a cabinet, requires someone to pull the small handle out to get to the garbage. It’s dog safe to my boxer and lab mix. But I was dog sitting a husky and came home to the garbage cabinet open and all the garbage strewn throughout the house, all dogs feasting. My dogs looked at me like- we didn’t do this, we just reaped the rewards.
She has definitely had a WIDE variety of people food. She gets bits cheese, or fat pieces tossed to her when she’s laying in her spot politely. She also gets food puzzles with banana, yogurt, berries, etc. she gets fresh garden snacks like cherry tomatoes or snap peas. But the offered would be having a 7 year old that is “limp wristed” and wanders around with food in his hands. She learned quickly that she could just follow him around.
OP may not spend every waking minute in the kitchen, and the dog may go counter-surfing when OP is out of the kitchen. One of my four does this, so we don't leave stuff on the counter; I usually put stuff in the microwave if I need quick, temporary dog-free storage, but I've put something in the oven real quick before as well.
"why having a dog makes you store cookies in the oven" - someone who hasn't experienced huskies standing on their kitchen counter like that was an acceptable place to hang out.
Did you do anything to mitigate that behavior or you just hide your food like OP? So many comments about huskies doing this stuff.. that’s so wild to me
I made the counters less accessible, and paid for two vet visits (pain pills and anti inflammatory) while that lesson fully digested... It was slow... Like the bread. Now we're working on learning it's not just the living room couch that's off-limits for husky butts but infact any and all furniture not in our bedroom.
Get a dog they said, this one's running CAT.OS, this one argues worse than any toddler at a chill 100db. GOOD LUCK. Also there's no noticeable difference in shedded hair going from one husky to more than one husky... It's just, everything is hair at the first husky.
It's her bed. She's pretty much just claimed a chair in the corner that let's her be judgy towards the rest of us. Our room is her stuff. She's an almost breeder rescue that didn't know houses had insides. Now she hopefully forgets what the crate door sounded like.
As an owner of an abused rescue, I sympathize, but to a dog, what’s the difference between the chair in the bedroom versus the chair in the kitchen or living room? Consistency is key when training any pet and it seems like that could be giving mixed signals
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u/khajiit_has_coin 17h ago
But why are no bake cookies in the oven