I wish I still had it. I did this about 15 years ago and I think the wife sent it to Americas Funniest Animals. Havent seen it since.

Howard

I've also used this: Get some cardboard, or other stiff paper. Take duct tape and place it so there is the sticky side up (does that make sence?) Place a pyramid of empty soda cans with pennies in some on them on top of the card board but not on top of the tape. When the dog jumps up the cardboard will stick to it's feet and the cans will come crashing down all over. Usually this only takes once and the dog will not do this again.

I was wondering if you had any progress with this.

For my dog who for some reason sits on my mom's couch while we are all downstairs (she never sits on my couch) I bought her a scat mat. It is a plastic mat you can get in different sizes and it has little electric wires in it. You put it on the counter, the dog jumps up and ZAP! (It feels like the kind of static shock you get when getting out of your car)

Of course the scat mat is more expensive than Jamie's suggestion, but it will work well and your dog won't be able to see it before he jumps up.

That's why I leave all my junk food on the floor and off the counters, haha j/k

don't leave food out on the counters, put the dog in a crate - those are the obvious ideas. Myself, I don't have problems with dogs getting on the counters, in the trash or places they shouldn't be, but my cats are terrible about it. Mousetraps - NOT under towels - work great. I don't care if the traps get their little noses or feet - they learn a lesson if they get on the counters/cabinets/trash cans. Mousetraps are not strong enough to hurt the cats' nose or foot. They just surprise the heck out of them. Only pain is you have to have a lot of mousetraps, and keep re-setting them when they are sprung.

molly

Not crazy either with the mouse idea, but crating is best it keeps the dog safe and also keep stuff off the counter that the dog can reach too.I have to that (counter safe) for my 2 years old daughter, the dogs know better.

I hope you are not correcting your dog for this.
One can only resist temptation so much. If my wife leaves
a defrosting chicken on the table and one of the dog eats it she gets in trouble not the dogs. A dog is a dog a snake is a snake and a crate is a crate?????

There are a couple of problems with my 5 month old GSD that I cannot seem to correct, counter-surfing when I'm making his food is one of them. In my previous post I said "If there's nothing there, the incentive to jump up goes away." This works for him, but if he is sitting in the kitchen while I make his food, he jumps on the counter. I've tried every form of correction I know (none of which he likes) and he'll sit for a while, but just can't sit long enough through the food making process.

Figured I'd leave him in his crate while making his food, but he knows the particular sounds (opening the fridge, spoon clanging in his bowl, etc) and smells. So he howls in his crate, barks up a storm. So my question is: crate him or continue to correct? Opinions encouraged and welcome.

So he's not trustworthy whenever there's food out on the counter that I'm preparing, either his or ours. I don't let him out of his crate when I'm preparing food for us because I'm using the stove burners and he won't hesitate to jump up there - my biggest fear - and burn himself irreparably. The thought of it makes the blood drain from my head.

Sandy, is there any way you could put him outside for a few minutes or have another member of your family do a spot of training somewhere else while you're preparing his food? It sounds like an awful amount of distraction for your poor pup at the moment & you can proof him later when he's older & better behaved.

Sandy,
If your dog knows the sit or down command put him in a down position outside the kitchen and do what ever it is you do in the kitchen and every time he gets up to come see correct him and put him back where he was (started) and keep repeating that until he no longer gets up.Make sure you give him a correction when he doesn't and a reward at the end when he has done the exercise properly .I had that problem with my 11 month old and I did the same thing I would put him in a crate and he would go crazy. So I did that exercise and it works I put him in my living room(he still can see me in the kitchen) but he stays and watch. The others can walk around cause they do not jump on the counters but Bandit ,he has to watch me from a distance.By the way I practised that with short steps first, like I would put him on a downn, walk to the kitchen open the fridge pretend to prepare something on the counter and then I would walk back to him and tell him good down and brake him and give him his toy, I repeated that several times, not all together but like every hours or so. Until he got the messgae.He downs quietly and stays and he gets a reward.He is very hard headed, so I have to be patient with him.He has a solid down on the field but when food is being prepared? He's crazy