My Dog Ruins My Sex Life. Cesar Millan to the Rescue – ryan

My overall general plan included mindfully walking Chester, getting him used to social distancing in another room and on the floor when I was in bed just hanging and then finally folding a small blanket to identify as “his space” on my bed. The first few times I tried restricting my dog to another room, he really wasn’t having it, and he barked.

“Just remember that when a dog is being told to do something, and especially if they don’t know how to do it yet, this sounds like whining and crying and all of that stuff. These are ways to manipulate the human to give in, right now!” Millan explains. I put on headphones and practiced enforcing the limit for ten minutes then 15, and finally Chester quieted down.  Next I practiced restricting him to a folded blanket at the foot of the bed, and rewarded him treats when he stayed there.

After a month of these small interventions, Chester seems pretty chill with hanging out in the other room or on the foot of the bed when my boyfriend and I are up to our own mating ritual (as Millan jokingly called it). No word yet on any boyfriend jealousy after sex, when I am lavishing praise and a doggie treat on my chihuahua for being “such a good boy.”