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04-16-2013, 10:01 AM | #1 |
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| Opinions on Doggy Doors?? I am thinking about getting one. I have to wait a few months cause Pixi is still too little but I really want to stop using potty pads and have these girls go outside. I have a big gated yard. The fence needs to be repaired which is another reason I have to wait. I will make sure there is no ways out. What is your opinion of doggy doors? In other words, do you think it is safe to let little dogs like these outside unattended at times?
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04-16-2013, 10:10 AM | #2 | |
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I have a 6 foot fence all the way around my yard, no way for them to get out, but I am still out there with them.
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04-16-2013, 10:14 AM | #3 |
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| Also, IMO, I don't agree that dogs should be left unattended outside or have that free access. There are just too many horror stories. But what solidified it for me was the neighborhood cats and even raccoons that were coming into my folks' house to eat their cat food. And they live in a busy city!
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04-16-2013, 10:20 AM | #4 |
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| Okay, my opinion - Doggy doors are good for bigger dogs. Not for high dollar small dogs like Yorkies. Why? Predator animals and predator people. Too risky. They are one of the top stolen animals right now and they are constantly being scoped by hawks, owls, and coyotes. When I lived in the country and had a bigger dog, we had a doggy door and it was awesome. So, doggy doors have their place. I'm not against them in general. Just with certain dogs - especially my Yorkie.
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04-16-2013, 10:22 AM | #5 |
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| I have to agree I would not let my yorkie out alone but if I had a bigger dog I wouldn't mind
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04-16-2013, 10:31 AM | #6 |
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| Absolutely agree with everything said so far...but would add that bigger doggie doors will admit bigger intruders. The best doggie doors I have seen...but have not used...are the electronic kind that they wear a collor for. You can set the door to allow them access in one or both directions or not at all, but wild critters and even humans cannot just push them open easily to come inside uninvited.
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04-16-2013, 10:41 AM | #7 |
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| We have a doggy door- and I love it and so does Peanut!! However when he walks outside his doggy door he is inside a chain linked doggy run. Also DH installed a chain link on the top so it is all enclosed. Peanut loves it, he has enough room to potty and to sun bathe and I don’t have to worry. Granted I still keep an eye when he is sun bathing, but I feel comfortable knowing he is safe- I will say his doggy door is closed at night, and during the day when we are not home. The only time it is open is when we are home.
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04-16-2013, 10:41 AM | #8 |
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| I wouldn't use one for a dog you don't want outside unobserved. A Yorkie is usually at risk outside from predators of all kinds - animal and human. People will take them right out of the yard and so well birds of prey and other large animals. They can find ways to escape the yard, etc., get into all kinds of mischief when you aren't watching. Also, with most of the non-coded doors that you dog activates with a device on his collar, anything small enough can crawl through that door - field rats, possum, cats, stray dogs, lizards and other critters. I'm too afraid of the uninvited to use one and afraid to have my Yorkie outside whenever he chooses. If I wasn't home and there were a rabid cat out in the back yard, he'd be right out that doggie door!
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04-16-2013, 10:47 AM | #9 | |
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04-16-2013, 10:49 AM | #10 |
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| Oooooh I think you should! Peanut loves his little area, and I don’t have to be out there with him LOL, Before we had it he would make me sit out there with while he sun bathed!! LOL Little Stinker.
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04-16-2013, 11:01 AM | #11 |
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| My Yorkie is 16 pounds and to big for a bird of pray so it works great for us but with smaller yorkies I would not do it unless you had the doggy door going to a gated kennel like thing with a some kind of top or your dogs may become a hawks dinner. We have lots of windows so I am able to watch her when she is out there but most of the time she just loves laying on the deck in the sun.
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04-16-2013, 11:05 AM | #12 | |
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04-16-2013, 11:13 AM | #13 | |
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04-16-2013, 11:47 AM | #14 | |
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The only critter’s we have had come in through the doggy door was a bird, which I 100% blame on Peanut! He should have heard that little rascal come in and went in guard mode!! However I was home from work sick and I was sleeping and he was passed out next to me!! LOL He was rather fun getting out of our house! LOL We also had an alligator lizard and a really long hideous centipede!!!
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04-16-2013, 12:34 PM | #15 | |
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This is what I wanted for my kitties...the kind that was programmable.
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