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Originally Posted by SWOwner  Attachment 410488Well, yesterday we gave the "bribe" process a chance. Charlie loves popcorn! The wife gets those 100 calories per bags and when she gets one - ole Charlie goes nuts! He runs up and down his couch steps waiting for the wife to open up the bag. The wife will prep a piece and feed it to Charlie - he loves them. The wife eats most of it though.  So, the wife got into the back seat of our car ( bag hidden). When Charlie starting going nuts - the wife opened up the bag in front of him - no reaction - kept screaming. She tried to give him a popcorn - he ignored her offer and kept screaming. We pulled into a gas station and after a few minutes Charlie finally stops and then decides to jump onto the popcorn. The wife gives him a few and then hides the bag again. We pull out of the gas station get a ways up the road - get ready to turn and Charlie goes into his screaming mode ignoring his popcorn. Another possible solution bites the dust!  |
I tried the food bribing route as well. Nope, doesn't work because NOW Beanie thinks IF she barks more, she gets a cookie. So she will bark at something/anything and then spin around to look at me to give her a freakin cookie. The only thing that this has accomplished is that I now have to make her lose weight (per my vet) as she is too heavy for her frame because she has luxating patellas, which I think are starting to bother her.
Plus bouncing around in her little car seat bucket is NOT helping her legs. OMG, I swear I am at my wit's end with this creature!!