Couch Potato

Our Lucy girl sure does have the life. She is our baby and is treated that way from comfy beds on every level of the house to the flood of toys that cover the floor. She is loved by all and dolls out hugs and kisses to all who will let her. We feel very lucky that we have such a sweet, loving, happy-go-lucky puppy dog.

But there is one little problem.

She is a couch potato.

She not only glances at the TV, but she actually watches it. And reacts. If there is a dog or animal on the screen, forget about it. She goes nuts and starts jumping on the TV stand to try to get to it. And it's not just animals. She jumps for baseball, violence, loud music, the Swiffer commercials as well as that Flash Mob commercial where the guy doesn't get the text that the dance starts at 12:30. If she is upstairs and hears the PetSmart jingle, she will come racing down to attack the TV. It's an incredible site.

Here she is watching Sex and the City:


And here she is watching Toy Story:


And here she is attacking Buster on Toy Story:


We have tried everything to make her stop. We leash her up and tie her to the column in the living room. We segregate her to another room so that she can't see the TV. Hell, we even bought an air horn to scare her when she jumps. The result was me jumping out of my skin when it goes off and Lucy looking at us saying "Hey guys, did you hear that?".

We are looking for advice...has anyone one else had this problem? What did you do to curb it? We are open to any and all suggestions because if you know my husband, you know that he cringes every time her little toe nails scratch the new TV stand. We have to keep a furniture marker out to touch it up on a regular basis!

What's funny is that as I write this, she is looking at me saying, "What's the problem, Mommy? I'm just watching what you watch!" Little brat. :)