How to Childproof a Drawer

by Lucy Atkinson

Well, the first things you’ll need are a drill set, some safety goggles, a welder …
Nah, just kidding! Actually, we have an even easier, more multi-purposed solution to the worries of keeping your kids out of drawers that you don’t want them to have access to. Sheer genius … and I think we might, strangely enough, be the first people on the web to market this new brand of child-lock! It will be great value-adding for our antiques customers, we think, to be able to purchase their child locks in the same place as their gorgeous antique knobs. Now we only have to investigate the SPCA licence for keeping the child locks, and figure out what to feed the child locks, and maybe teach them to guard as well (against door knob burglars ;-)

Seriously though, I think the end of the movie which was cut off may have been the toddler trying to open the drawer by putting his fingers on the top or side of it, rather than on the handle, and then screaming and crying for the next ten minutes after he had his fingers slammed in the drawer… and the poor old dog wondering what he did wrong!

It looks like this dog owner might also have seen our post on how to stop dogs and cats from scratching at doors, and antique door knobs. You can imagine the dog just popping up its paw to close the drawer, it would work just as effectively. However, it looks like the owner has used our handy hints on preventing dog claw scratches by teaching the dog to use its nice soft (although perhaps somewhat slimy…) nose!
Door knobs

          

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