Just had a phone call from the dog walker to say that the dog has chewed things off kitchen worktop. 
He is 16 month old Goldie and I though we had got past this stage. AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!

Sorry, just wanted to get this off my chest.

I have an 11-year old dog who will take things off the kitchen worktop ... ;)

back to the drawing board then??!!

I, too, have an 11 year old that will steal anything from anywhere. The kitchen worktops are a great delight though. :D The only answer I ever found was not to leave the dog in the kitchen! ;)

Poor Tim! If its any consolation Morse ate a whole Battenburg cake off my worktop in a most crafty fashion yesterday and didnt even have the grace to suffer wind! And wed been practicing food refusal for classes too :D

Glazby has licked clean 2 tubs of Flora Margerine (full ones) now - we know that nothing left out is safe!!  He tried a packet of dried pasta the other day but didn't like it so instead just had fun spreading it all round the kitchen!!

:D  I had to scrape the top layer off of the Flora yesterday after it got licked when I turned my back.

My dog once ate a packet of butter, followed by a bag of sugar and then 3 packets of sweets.... she then threw it all up over the kitchen floor

Shame the sweets weren't flour.  You could have popped it in the oven and had a cake.

Awwww, you gotta love em!  :D

Ours lcked all the icing from a cake Mrs B had just made. I wanted to re-ice it and give it to my brother but she wouldn't let me - what a spoil sport!

Our old ESS once ate almost an entire black forest gateux off the dining room table-she was so ill you would have thought she'd learnt her lesson, but apparently not- a few months later she got in amongst all thr christmas pressies, unwrapped them all in order to find the one box of chocolates someone had been given unbeknown to us...  She has since died, but we learnt our lesson and now have 2 cockers-who don't have the opportunity as we don't put our presents under the tree until christmas eve as they too are incredibly inquisitive!

Sring some aluminium drink cans (empty!) together and leave a string hanging over the edge of the work top, perhaps with a treat fastened to the end.  One pull on this and the clatter of cans hitting the floor usually makes the most persistent counter surfer think twice!

Our old Patch was an expert thief.  He would jump onto the worktop and open the top cupboards if there was something in there worth having, like a chocolate cake or an open packet of biscuits.  One day we had pizza for tea so I put a spare slice on a plate and let him watch me put it in the cupboard.  Whilst the family took their meal through to the dining room I put the dogs in the garden and took my already prepared empty coke tins and lined them up across the top of the cupboard door.  I then let the dogs back into the kitchen and joined the rest of the family in the dining room.  We ate our meal in silence waiting for the crash .... but nothing happened.  When I returned to the kitchen the cupboard door was ajar, the tins were balanced precariously and the pizza was gone.

When our boxer Bruce was younger he used to steal and eat everything, he must have got bored with the kitchen because one day he made it over the bottom stair gate, up the stairs, over the top gate, opened the bathroom door, got my make up bag off the side and ate the lot, including my pill. I found him in the bathroom covered in make up and about 5 of my pills on the floor coved in dog drool which I hate to say I had to take for the next 3 days as it was a Fri night n couldnt get to the doctor untill Monday. (No way did i want to take the risk of another baby with Bruce on the loose)   :)
Lou

Double sided tape works quite well too.