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Keeping pets off your new furniture is not an easy task, as any one with experience in the mater will confirm. For some reason, pets love to lie on your beds, sit on your couch and even hide in your wardrobes. It would be fine if they just sat nicely and were clean, but as we know this is often not true of pets. Instead they claw at your bedding, chew up your couch and get mud all over your lovely white-wardrobes. There are methods for stopping this happening however, lets take a look at three of the most successful.

Training. It is only by making sure your pets are trained well that you will ensure they keep off your expensive living room and bedroom furniture. If you are lucky enough to be able to provide training from a young age then your pets will be more receptive to new training when they are older as well. If you can teach them that the furniture is not their plaything, but instead for their owners to use, that is great. However, many people do let their pets on certain pieces of furniture, in which case your pets should know which ones they are allowed on, and which are forbidden.

Pet deterrents. If you forgot to train your pets when they were young and now they just wont pay attention to you, you might need more direct action. You can buy different types of pet repellent spays and powders that they can’t stand the smell of. These tend to have quite citrusy smells that are pleasant to humans but are too much for animals with sensitive smell.

Discipline. If you have trained your pet then they will respond better to discipline, but any animal will learn if you go about it the right way. This doesn’t mean that you should hit your pets every time they jump on the chair or bedside cabinets, but instead be consistent with how you react when they do. Don’t tell them off one day and then turn a blind eye the next as this will just confuse. Use loud short noises to tell them no, and praise them when they don’t jump up.