How to Keep a Pet off Your Furniture When You Are Not at Home

Pets sometimes bite the leather couch, pull out cushion stuffing or shed fur all over the furniture. You can shoo your pet away whenever you're home but it gets right onto your furniture once you leave. Your pet finds that without you, it can enjoy using the furniture. If you want to keep it off your furniture, change the environment so that it can never enjoy the furniture when you're away.

Things You'll Need

  • Pet repellent spray
  • Empty soda cans
  • Coins
  • String
  • Electronic pet repellent
  • Pet gate
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Instructions

    • 1

      Spray the furniture with a pet repellent to prevent your pet from licking or biting. Such a repellent usually contains an ingredient that makes it taste unpleasant.

    • 2

      Alter your pet's favorite piece of furniture so it becomes uncomfortable. For example, place a chair upside down on the sofa or lay boxes all over the bed.

    • 3

      Place a homemade trap to surprise your pet when it tries to use the furniture. For example, build a stack of empty soda cans on the back of a chair so that they will fall when your pet jumps onto the chair.

    • 4

      Put a book or a remote on a chair and tie it to a soda can that contains coins. When your pet tries to move the book or remote to make room for itself, the can will fall and make a loud noise.

    • 5

      Use a commercial electronic pet repellent device on your pet's favorite piece of furniture. Such devices recognize when your pet comes onto the furniture and make it leave. One pad covers the furniture and sounds a shrieking alarm when it detects your pet pet coming onto it. Another mat releases a weak electrical impulse when your pet makes contact with it.

    • 6

      Install a gate across the entrance to the rooms with the furniture you want to protect. Only allow your pet in when someone can supervise it and keep it off the furniture.