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[Grim Portent]

Is there any way you can put the figurines out of reach of the dog? Or just not let him in the room.

Space is rather limited for me. I've been doing the whole hobby for about 15 years at this point, and have always had a habit of sprawling multiple projects out across the room, and while older models were fine being shoved in a shoebox with some bubblewrap when I needed to put them out of the way the more recent stuff needs a more delicate touch and bigger containers, which gets expensive fast. On top of that my room is also where I store all of my other stuff and some of the supplies for my own pets.

I have a set of shelves in the garage, but they're mostly occupied by spare reptile/fish stuff like quarantine tanks and travel tubs. Not enough space for me to set up boxes with foam or magnetic trays to store things in. Somewhere upwards of 90% of everything I own is in the one room.


As for keeping him out, that works until it doesn't. I spend most of my time in the room, and remembering to close the door everytime I go to the bathroom or to get a drink isn't easy. Every now and then I relax, forget to close it properly (it has a door spring that I bought to close it behind me for this exact reason, but it doesn't actually shut it anymore for some reason,) and then I come back to find the dog has taken the chance to go poke around. Usually doesn't result in anything being damaged, but when it does it's always something valuable and impossible to fix.

I almost never used to keep my door shut, it was always open for the cat and the tortoise to wander in and out as they wanted, now it's shut near constantly.

[Dunamisdeos]

Almost my entire family (like 50+ people) were exposed to Covid. Our great-uncle who hosts Thanksgiving is quite elderly and everyone made it because he's hosted thanksgiving for the last literal 50 years and we're worried about his health.

He tested for Covid after thanksgiving

Me and my wife and kid were not there because we could still be contagious for our own little plague, ironically.

[King Zultan]

I don't think I've ever held such animosity towards any living thing as I do towards him. I seriously would have preferred a god damn crocodile over the wretch.

Have you ever thought about getting rid of it, like taking it to a shelter or out somewhere and leaving it behind?

[dragdeler]

Reverse shock collar? I think they're trash, but how else are you gonna make the dog irrationally afraid of the room? If you train it, it would stay out if you're there, but if you're not the reference person for the dog, training it might prove difficult, and I wouldn't expect it to respect you in your absence.

[Kagus]

Round here the issue would be the climate more than anything, though I doubt they're legal here without a license. Scotland isn't a good place for crocodiles most of the year

I mean, you say that, buuuut...

Spoiler: Alamosa Gator Park, Colorado (click to show/hide)

[scriver]

Those are clearly logs

[dragdeler]

Fuck cars fuck drivers... We allmost hit another deer... I go "shit what the word for " GWEHUHEe... managed to have a whole thought ans a scream before he hit the break.... And then as allways when I respond to a dangerous situation with the appropriate urgency, they go "why you yelling I saw it don't yell"


YEAH THAT'S WHY I MANAGED TO DO A WHOLE NOISE BEFORE YOU MOVED YOUR FOOT 5cm IT WASN't AS IF I WAS ALLREADY INSTINCTIVELY PUSHING DOWN MY RIGHT FOOT BEFORE I MANAGED TO EXPRESS MYSELF

[heydude6]

Reverse shock collar?

I sincerely endorse this method. There are shock collars that come with sensors that trigger when a dog crosses a certain line. If you set the doorway to your room to be that line, then the dog won’t be able to remain inside without experiencing the shocks. It worked very well for the dogs of my mom’s friend

[Magmacube_tr]

I feel dysphoric. Not any particular type of dysphoria - I just feel unsure about everything. These feelings been here for about a week now.

I was never the most stable person. Am I finally starting to go off the deep end?

[hector13]

Ayyy animal cruelty is awesome.

Better to punish the animal than learn to adapt our own behaviour to prevent it doing the shit we don’t like.

[dragdeler]

That's why I said I think they're trash, but I fail to see how he gonna solve this with positive reinforcement, short of becoming the new super dog daddy and allways stimulating the dog to the max, which like, who'd do that for a dog they don't like. Now you might argue well if you get to know the dog you'll like him etc... But seems to me it's not "his" dog and he never wanted it.


Putting your shit out of reach is an option until you have too much of it. Some rooms just aren't pet friendly.


edit: Oh right. Sry. Fix the godamn spring on the door.

[hector13]

Closing the door manually is also an option in this instance, unless the dog can phase through objects.

I just don’t understand some people’s jump to “oh just abuse the dog” as the next logical step from “a dog in my house behaves differently from how I want it to”.

[dragdeler]

When we dogsit, which happens super rarely it is inconceivable that I'd let it in here unsupervised.

But man, if you're asking me to allways remember little details like that, EVERYTIME, EVERYDAY, because if not there will be punishement (to the dog the difficult to access room must be extremly enticing)... maaan you might as well ask for the moon.


Seriously tho, 35$ figurine... The spring will pay for itself, fix it.*

*edit again, see I can't allways keep track of all the details: if the dog learns to open doors, you deal with that in due time, until then the solution is obvious

**redit: unless a spring might hurt other pets


ugh shutting up is allways the best course of action

[MrRoboto75]

unless the dog can phase through objects.

Help my puppy learned how to backwards long jump up the stairs I can't catch him.

[Frumple]

Ayyy animal cruelty is awesome.

Better to punish the animal than learn to adapt our own behaviour to prevent it doing the shit we don’t like.

The better "shock" collars nowadays just use noise instead of actual electricity. Works pretty well, not nearly as much cruelty, gives an immediacy to reaction that's both important for training and often difficult to impossible for a human to stay on top of.

Cases like what's being discussed, it's not just a "shit we don't like" -- figurines can easily choke or physically tear up the digestive system of a dog if parts of them are swallowed, so if physically removing the chance of consumption isn't reasonable (and it sounds like it isn't more than has already been tried, in this case), then training the dog to stop doing it is more or less what you have to do. Ideally, they'd have more space to store stuff, or a better condition door that closed properly, or any dozen other things, but lacking that your best bet probably is to just... train the dog to stop.