Staffies and BBQ'S

Morning all. The weather has put paid to having a BBQ today, but we are wondering how you keep your pooch safe without banishing him/her from the event.

The only way we can think of (cos Sophie isn't sensible enough yet) is to put the BBQ itself in a separate area outside the garage (through a side gate) so she has absolutely no access to it whatsoever.

We couldn't trust she wouldn't attempt to jump up at it, particularly if there were meaty teats on it and the last thing in the world we would want is an accident.

Any advice would be appreciated as she is obviously part of the family and would be distraught if kept inside.

We will obviously be cooking her her own chicken portion as due to her diet she is banned from all else

How do you lot cope or are all your staffies impeccably behaved and totally sensible.

When we have barbies, we just make sure the dogs are never left alone, there's always someone there to ensure they don't get too close, if they do get up and try to approach the BBQ, they get told 'away'

I'm sure she would be OK near it with regards to the heat, she wouldn't let herself get burned, but then again a nice juicy steak ummmmm..........................

Probably best kept away.

My girls get banned from about 4/5 feet within the bbq's range. TBH they aren't stupid, once they realise its hot they wont try and stick their noses in it.

Wish it was BBQ weather here! Enjoy

Ledger wont go anywhere close to smoke during the olympic torch run with all the street bbqs I had to keep crossing to the other side of the road with him so no problems keeping him away from a BBQ also if anything sizzles on the cooker (even bacon) he runs and sits in another room

If Suki is outside while we are cooking both of us are outside as well just to be safe

Pixee knows when cooking, she is to stay away. I taught her, when I cook, she can stay in the kitchen but on her mat, and my work area is out of bounds. We had two BBQs, to which hubby does the cooking, we put her mat outside, and she knew, food, cooking to stay away and yet she was still part of the event. When we eat, she will lie on her mat and wait patient for scrabs.

Tilly is little miss sensible so no problems there but we haven't had one since we got Tommy

Did you guys manage to have a BBQ? Its really warm here but has rained on and off all day x

Trouble doesnt go to close cos of heat , but i always stay in between him and the bbq as i dont want any fat spitting onto him ......just keep an eye and dont leave the bbq unattended

We're lucky, we have the barbecue in a part of the garden that can be closed off (bit difficult to explain), and we put up a gate between us & Dempsey. He can still see us (and get the odd bit of meat) but he stays safely away from the barbecue etc.

The weather let us down but I hope we can have one towards the middle of next week. Will let you know how we get on ><

Harv just ignores it when we've had one