I moved the “regular” trash can to the bathroom. My doberman is a twisted minded dog, he likes to try out everything. And he has a passion for my trash can. He removes the cap and takes out all kinds of stuffs and takes it in the room to show me. Like some crazy cat who takes the mouse he cached to the owner…
To avoid this, obviously I moved the trash can, to the bathroom, where he doesn’t have access all the time. Except when I don’t lock the door, he opens the door and maybe checks the trash can. Lately he is not that interested in what I throw out, but still, the old trash can must stay there.
But in the kitchen I need a trash can, its pain to go with every small piece of junk to the bathroom. So I decided to get a new trash can, a smaller one, with a flip-flap, and see whats happening.
I take the can home, put it to the right place and in less than 10 minutes he was inspecting the trash can with his head INSIDE. This was a very good opportunity to “fix” the issue 
I started yelling like crazy, making very angry noise I usually don’t make, that my boyfriend got scared instantly. He couldn’t imagine what is wrong with me. Of course the dog went away from the trash can, he was looking at me, like wtf just happened… and well since that moment he didn’t touched the new trash can. After this I had to explain to my boyfriend what was all this about
That I thought if I can catch him right at the beginning, and he gets a bad experience touching the new trash can, he will remember and not touch it again. It was exactly the way he stopped mutilating my flowers. He was biting one of the flowers in the pot, when accidentally he managed to make the pot fall down. In a second he realized if he touches the flower, it will make a huge crash bum bang, and never touched any of them since.
