Most dachshunds are hard headed. I’m sure my other two were just as hard headed but after having Rita, Oscar seems so much more difficult than I remember my other ones being. Of course, I was 40 years younger with the first one and 20 years younger with Speck so that may explain a lot of it.
Yesterday he kept grabbing things off the sofa. We don’t want him on the sofa for several reasons but most importantly, he will jump right up on the back of the sofa and then jump off onto the tile floor. That absolutely cannot happen! So, we put boxes on the sofa and, since he’s Oscar, he will chew on the cardboard from the floor because he loves to shred cardboard. So we have quilts and towels stacked up on the boxes and that helps him not notice there’s cardboard there. Yesterday he decided he would pull the quilts and towels off. He’s so fast (or I’m so slow). He will jump up and grab something with his teeth and once something is not stable, the whole stack of towels or quilts comes tumbling down.
We call the “container” he sleeps in and where he stays when we leave “the crate”. We call the fenced off area behind the sofa “the pen”. I want him to think “the crate” is a comfy, safe place to sleep and rest and “the pen” is for bad dogs.
I kept getting up and trying to distract him from pulling things off the sofa and I said “The Pen! You’re going to the pen!” He sat there for the longest time looking at me like he wanted to say “You would NOT do that to me.” He just stared me down but then he found something else he could play with and didn’t have to go to the pen.
Later, Rita was barking and Oscar couldn’t see what she was doing so he got up on Vince’s little side table.
Every now and then, he’ll jump off that table so if I have to go to the bathroom, I do have to put him in the pen so he can’t get on the table and follow me.
He really is into something almost constantly.
montanaclarks says
He’s like a child who has just learned to walk–into everything, you can’t turn your back on them!! That photo of Oscar is adorable!!
Jane says
Oh, but that face! He is adorable! Seeing him on that side table reminded me of the time we came home and found our little Jack Russell calmly sitting in the middle of the dining room table. She just looked at us like that was normal behavior. For her, it kind of was. Enjoy your precious little friend.
Sherry Bobak says
He’s so adorable! How could you send him to the pen with that innocent look on his face?
Nelle Coursey says
Just look at that innocent face! He is telling you he didn’t do anything wrong…..yet! I love that sweet face!
judy.blog@gmail.com says
It’s a good thing he’s so cute and that look melts my heart.