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  • Determined to get that good stuff inside.:D

    I built a table in my laundry room, which is off my kitchen back in 94 and put the garbage can up high to keep my previous 2 Bs out of it and still works today with Buddy.


    You can see up on the table near the vacuum cleaner attachments.

  • I use a trash compactor… they have yet been able to open it....

  • LOL but what about in your bathroom and bedroom Pat, surely you don't have compactors there… though lol that's an idea.

  • Trash compactor for me too! wonderful invention that. was probably invented by a basenji owner. Bath room trash is on the tank and I don't put the lid down.

  • Bathroom trash is small metal can with step-op pedal for the lid. It only slows Nicky down a tiny bit, but she can score a q-tip once in a while.
    Kitchen trash just has domed lid with swinging door, but ALL edible trash goes directly into the outside trash. If I am cooking, I keep a bowl or baggie with the edible trash, then when I am finished I take it out. Anything remotely appealing will be on the living room floor, so only washed containers, onion peelings, broccoli stems, etc goes into the kitchen trash!

  • I have the same Rubbermaid garbage can. I am lucky. My bs don't know what treasures lie within!

    Now, the bathroom trash….well, let's just say it's always empty as we never use it!!!! it's just there for show! Anything that goes in there will be instantly shredded/ripped up/ingested....

  • LOL vickilb here either… paper and empty containers can go in bathroom, no tissues no qtips. My husband says ... and it's here why?

  • My kitchen trash is in a child locked cupboard, my bathroom door stays shut!

  • This is odd but worked for Jaycee my daughter chased Jaycee with trash can everytime she got into it she did it about three or four times like a game but on Thursday we took big trash can out by road for pickup and Jaycee was outside well like o no the kitchen trash has a big brother and I do not care for it. No more problems but Jayden well nothing works with him trash is trash and it is mine if I can get to it.

    Rita Jean

  • I leave my trash in the under-sink cabinet - and Gossy hasn't shown an interest in opening that cabinet (she does others). But then all vegetable scraps go in the compost and meat scraps go in the outside trash - which she doesn't have access to.

  • LOL Debra….I really LIKE that sturdy wooden one. I actually never thought of getting a heavy can with a reinforced lid- that is a good idea. In theory, of course....I think when you have 4 dogs working together it's the equivalent of one dog who has thumbs. I've always just put the can up high somewhere whenever I leave the house & I leave the dogs loose inside. It only took a couple times of "forgetting" before it became habit!

    For several years, our bathroom trash can resided permanently on top of the toilet tank. This isn't exactly a Martha Stewart household- we're not much on decorating I guess...LOL It didn't take long before we were 100% used to seeing it there and didn't think twice about it. But, when we had the occasional visitor, the question never failed to come up- "Why is the trash can on top of the toilet?" Some folks were understandably uncomfortable with it, too (of course I'd try to make sure it was empty before having guests, LOL)

    So I took measures to help clear up anybody's confusion & show there was a good reason for it being there. The trash can was just a cheap, plastic white one- cost about $3. I took permanent markers & drew a cartoon of a Basenji with a roll of toilet paper in his mouth. Then I drew a red circle/slash around it (like a no smoking symbol). And I wrote something like "NO BASENJI TOILET PAPER FETISHES ALLOWED".

    It made an interesting conversation piece....and often resulted in friends wanting to see the "paper fetish" in action- so I'd wad up a paper towel and put it on the floor, so they could watch Jibini methodically shred it into tiny pieces, LOL. Never failed to amaze people who'd never experienced a Basenji before. One of the many reasons I love Basenjis, they're ideal "party entertainment" dogs ;)

  • @Woofless:

    I took permanent markers & drew a cartoon of a Basenji with a roll of toilet paper in his mouth. Then I drew a red circle/slash around it (like a no smoking symbol). And I wrote something like "NO BASENJI TOILET PAPER FETISHES ALLOWED".

    It made an interesting conversation piece….and often resulted in friends wanting to see the "paper fetish" in action- so I'd wad up a paper towel and put it on the floor, so they could watch Jibini methodically shred it into tiny pieces, LOL. Never failed to amaze people who'd never experienced a Basenji before. One of the many reasons I love Basenjis, they're ideal "party entertainment" dogs ;)

    ROFLMAO that is priceless.

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