So... apparently there was a mouse in the bottom cabinet of my outdoor gas grill. While I'm outside with Greta, she goes over to investigate. She somehow scared the mouse out of the grill and onto the patio, chased it, and caught it! Now she won't leave the grill alone.

If I stand next to it and tell her "NO" she will move away, but as soon as I move to the other side of the yard, she's back over there shoving the grill with her nose or paws trying to get more mice to come out (I'm guessing). I'm sure chasing and catching that one was tremendously exciting. The odds of there being any more are highly unlikely at this point...

Do I need to put a prong on her for a while and give her a correction to emphasize my point? or just be persistent in telling her NO? I'm afraid she's going to push the grill over and get hurt. Haven't run into a situation yet where just telling her no didn't work. When we train and exercise in the morning she will focus on me and leave it alone, but if I sit on the patio to read she eventually goes back over there. What a ridiculous problem lol.

To keep Harry's nose away from the treat cupboard, I wiped a bunch of Vicks vapo rub onto the cupboard door. They hate the smell, now I just leave an open Vicks container on the open shelf part, and he won't go near it!

I like it!

Keep a close eye on it for a while just in case the dog gets used to the smell.

I had a field and a small woods behind my old house.

EVERY one of the half dozen different terrier breeds I've owned when running them in the field and woods behind the house would IMMEDIATELY run to the very spot where they first kicked or spotted a critter.

Some still would do this yrs after that first happening but, being in a field or woods I paid it no mind.

Maybe just the crazy terriers or hunting dogs do this. Who knows.

We have a lot of small bats around here. Some of them sleep between the tiles; The Pits are crazy about them and have already caught many, I don't understand how, because bats are normally much quicker and have that marvellous system of echolocation.

Unfortunately I can't use your great trick, Becky, as In the night the pits ar not supervised and I can't wipe the whole area with Vivk vapo rub, lol..Can any one of you think of another possibility how to protect the bats? They are so useful for dispersing seeds, polinating plants and reducing insects. Or will I simply have to live with the fact "nature is nature"?

For that i would use a remote collar. Harry has been trained with it to leave rabbits, squirrels and birds alone. I let him scare off ravens tho, since they annoy me .
I am currently working on getting him to bark when he sees motion at my rear window, as it is low enough to be accessible to bears if the bear board doesn't work.
But when it comes to anything else small, he is to ignore them, watch them quietly if he wants, but never to give chase.
Thanks to that, geese can walk anywhere, and he only startles if they take off from the ditch.
I would also wash the scent of mouse from the grill as they pee everywhere, which can get the nose working!

The problem is, with a remote I'd have to be somewhere near them.But at night I want to sleep.During the day the bats don't fly.We need the Pits to be lpse at night because of burglers. Thanks anyway, Becky.