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Dogs and New Construction Don’t Mix
I have discovered that going through construction with dogs around is not good.
On every wall that was freshly spackled you can find a tail mark or a nose mark. With Babys’ tail we call it a whip. When she gets excited it just whips back and forth. (sometimes I can see why they crop tails 
, only kidding). Just as the worker put it on the wall so nice and neat, there goes Babys’ tail. Yep, she left a tail mark. hmmm do I say something so its not so hard for him when he sands…Nope.
Marina just loves to be surrounded by things and she is now totally out of her element with nothing in the room but 2 chairs and a couple of lights. So now she has resorted to laying as close to the wall as she can. Hmmmm can you say fur spackle. I think it can be considered a new technique. She especially loves this one corner. I doubt it will ever be right. Her fur is so very long that, every time she gets it in her fur, I have learned to wait until it dries to get it out.
Worse yet I forgot to move their dog beds and they were plopped with spackle too. OF COURSE they have to lay in it too before I get a chance to even notice it much less clean it up.
What is there to do?
Keeping Your Dog Off the Couch
With pets, establishing boundaries from an early age is absolutely essential. If you consider a behavior unacceptable, it must be established as such. What constitutes unacceptable behavior, however, varies from family to family. While almost everyone can agree that biting is never allowed, some families are more lenient about chewing personal possessions or letting the dog onto the furniture. This issue of letting a dog on human furniture is a particularly divisive issue.
Some people, after all, are particularly concerned with keeping the house clean. And if that’s the case, you need to teach your dog from the very beginning that getting on the couches or the bed is simply not allowed. These kinds of boundaries should only be imposed, however, if there is an equally comfortable place for the dog to rest. Dogs don’t get on the furniture because they are bad or like to misbehave. They climb on furniture because it’s comfortable! As such, look into any number of dog couches for your pet. These comfortable couches make it much more likely that your dog will heed your commands to stay off your furniture, especially since they will have it all to themselves.