April 2, 2009 8:01 pm

My Favorite Dog-Resistant Trash Can

One of my good friends is getting married this summer and though her wedding registry is filled with all sorts of cool gift ideas from fun, unique stores, I am buying her a trash can. She and her husband-to-be share their small home with their dog. And their dog loves the trash. Especially the bathroom trash, which is just gross–the same reason it’s revered by dogs world-over.



Unable to stuff their trash can away into a cabinet (it is a small house) they do their best to shut the bathroom door. A failure to do this results in much disarray, and I feel I am doing their relationship a favor by buying them a special trash can for their wedding. My favorite kind, which we received from my aunt and uncle for our wedding, is the Simplehuman variety, where the lid fits flat into the top rim, leaving no lip for noses to lift. There is a foot push-down pedal at the bottom which opens the lid so there is the extra bonus of being able to throw away two handfuls of trash at the same time! While discussing this with an owner the other day (we started off talking about her dog’s diarrhea which she blamed on trash-can access), I was toting the heftiness of our trashcan. It is metal with a heavy plastic removable liner and it is just as narrow on top as it is on the bottom so maybe it is less likely to be pushed over (her dog’s raiding method). And though the normal kitchen-sized trash can can cost over 0, so do trips to the vet for diarrhea treatment… 



There may be other brands out there that do the same good job at protecting our trash and our pets from each other but the Simplehuman is pretty easy to find online.



–Dr. Olson
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Dr. Olson practices small animal medicine in Denver, CO and is a regular contributor to Wag Reflex.



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