I don’t have a counter-surfing dog but my cats make your girl sound like an angel. These two have opened metal tins, torn through cardboard boxes, pried open a cracked (and still hot) oven door, etc. The only solution I’ve found is to keep absolutely nothing out. Everything goes behind a pantry door (tied shut), in the fridge, or in cabinets (tied shut). I don’t enjoy it but day to day it is easier to live like this then stress that they’ve gotten into something dangerous.
Scat mat surrounding the kitchen perimeter or entrance so she is no longer allowed in the kitchen (ever-even when you are in there, make it very black and white) , she goes everywhere with you, OR, you teach her to accept and be OK in a crate (as her “safe place” instead of your armchair).
I’ve never had small dogs and have rarely had any dogs that would qualify as obedience-ready, LOL! Most have been Alaskan Malamutes, notorious thieves. They’ll steal anything including couch cushions, drapes right off of the curtain rods, etc. But especially anything from a counter top! (out of the sink, from the fridge…anything edible)
I got very used to not leaving edibles out anywhere the dogs could get them, however teaching the rest of the family was harder than teaching the dogs! So I came up with a solution that worked for us for ages.
I went to Home Depot and found a garden border fence I liked.
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I sawed off the bottom stakes. I bought 2 small window tension rods in black. (that fit 18", the standard height from counter to bottom of upper cabinets) 4 screw in pipe brackets.
I glued a strip of felt to the bottom of the garden border, screwed 2 brackets into the outside edge of each end of the border and slid the tension rods through them. Then fit the rods between counter and upper cabinet bottoms on a section of the counter. I could then just slide edibles behind that and the dogs couldn’t grab anything any more. 
The family was quick to learn to use that, it was convenient and easy and we weren’t constantly running out of bread, LOL! And it looked nice, too.
You can do the same with a small-dog pet gate panel.
Muzzle?
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Dobes are smart, you have to be sneaky. I trained mine that table stuff was verboten early. I’d leave some tasty morsel on the table edge and leave the room. I’d watch via a reflection in the door. The moment a snatch was attempted, I came in and smacked her with a fly swatter. A radio shock collar just made it easier on me. I’ve thought of a web cam too.
Sounds like your dobe has progressed beyond a quick snatch and graduated to pillage and plunder. :eek:[/QUOTE]
A shock collar is very good for behavior like this. Set up a tempting scenario and walk out of sight. I don’t have this problem, but if I put a collar on one of my dogs he instantly becomes a SAINT in every way. Counter surfing is nasty!!
Mousetraps. Easy fix.
http://denisefenzipetdogs.com/
the most recent blog is about managing dogs while putting training in place. Substitute counter surfing for reactivity.
Well, I would say the easiest solution for this is a tall baby gate barring access to the kitchen. Get a good tall one with a walk through that you can secure firmly. Boom, done.
Annie’s antics may prove fatal. I came home Monday to find she’d gotten into peanut butter cups and another dog’s medication (not beef flavored, or anything like that). She seemed fine Monday evening, then crashed some time in the night. She’s been at the vet’s since yesterday morning. She can’t stand, she’s been on IV fluids. The vet can’t figure out what the toxin is and what it’s affecting. Her bloodwork all looked okay, but she’s not getting any better.
Please say a prayer, or a jingle, or something, for my bad dog who I love.
StG
Mousetraps - helped somewhat with our greyhounds - those neeedle-noses are hardwired to steal. Don’t worry - nothing ever happened to hurt one, and we placed the traps so they snapped away from the edge of the counter.
We also got trained - keeping all food at the back of the counter (after the roast beef landed on the floor!)
Meant to add that I hope she is getting better. I’m a dog lover and when my dogs or horses are ill, I am too.
Well, the news isn’t good. The vet says her organs are all working fine, but he thinks her brain is shutting down. He saw no signs of alertness today. He was basically saying in good conscience he couldn’t continue to treat her and run up a bill when he thought it was hopeless, and he could euthanize her or I could take her home and see if being in familiar surroundings brought her out of it. But as I was sitting on the floor next to her, she put her head in my lap, and when I put canned food in her mouth, she ate it. And while I was sitting with her a tech came and got a dog out of a cage and she picked her head up and watched. That was more than he’d seen all day. He’s going to keep her over night and have a tech feed her with a syringe tomorrow and see how she does.
StG
I’m so sorry, StG 
I hope she pulls through.
Really, very, deeply sorry. Hoping for the best for your dog.
Annie drank two bowls of water today and they were able to get her to stand. The vet is now “cautiously optimistic”. Hopefully things are turning around!
StG
I will keep your good (bad) girl in my thoughts and have Meg the Cattle Dog light up her Bentley to alert other ACDs to send good, healing thoughts too. 24 hours is not long for her system to expel the meds and the chocolate. Keep encouraging her StG, love will sometimes pull them through.
I brought Annie home. She walked out under her own steam, came home, went to her chair (I gave her a boost) and curled up. I fed dinner and she cleaned her bowl. She has a host of meds to take, but she seems so improved it’s like a miracle. The vet was amazed. Lord love him, he told me he woke up at 3:00 am thinking about her, and how maybe she needed some Vit. B. I love my vet.
StG
Fantastic news! It is indeed a miracle. Very glad to see this update.
So glad to hear Annie’s doing better - sending good Dobie vibes for continued recovery!
I hope Annie continues to do better.
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