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02-06-2014, 07:26 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: Hobby Farm, Manitoba, Canada
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| Help! Ozzy wants to dash out the front door. So I have had my yorkie for almost a year and I am so attatched to him so this worries me. He wants to take off out the front door on me. This is my first yorkie so I don't know if this is something they like to do, I have been working with him to stay but he is so fiesty that just when I think he has got it he races out the door. It is freezing right now so he doesn't go far but when it is warmer, well it scares me to think of something happening to him. So my question is are yorkie's never to be really trusted or keep working on the stay command.
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02-06-2014, 07:41 AM | #2 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Merritt Island,FL
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| My Ziva can never be trusted to not dive out an open door. Abby on the other hand will never step out unless her leash is on. I bought freestanding wooden gates for my front hallway and consider it one of my best investments in Ziva's life. The gates can be annoying at times but worth the trouble. |
02-06-2014, 07:45 AM | #3 |
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| I am not a good trainer, so I can just offer preventative advice. My Huey knows to not go out the basement door, and we enter and exit that way most of the time. He doesn't try to get out, because that door is not leading to anything "interesting". The front door is used for deliveries, visitors, etc, so that door is the one that Huey wants to dash out of any time it is open. My solution for this, since I know I can't trust him, is that anytime that door has to be opened, I put him in a closed room or shut him onto the deck until I can close the door again. If there is someone waiting to come in or drop off a package, they just have to wait. I have sidelight windows, so I just gesture to whoever it is to hang on, and they can see the barking beast and understand. I have tried to train him with "no" and "sit", but that particular door has too high of an "interest value" and he will run every time. With these preventative measures in place, he has not gotten out of the house unleashed in over 3 years. Protecting Huey is much more important than whatever is on the other side of that door. Period.
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02-06-2014, 07:58 AM | #4 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Northern VA
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| I saw this product a while back... It's bit expensive but if you can afford it or if you're a DIY type of person, perhaps you can make something similar? Retract-A-Gate - Retractable Safety Gate, Retractable Baby Gate, or Retractable Pet Gate. An easy to use wide safety gate for indoors or outdoors and certified for use at the top of stairs. |
02-06-2014, 08:03 AM | #5 | |
Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas
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My home is "fenced and crossed fenced"!! To get out the front door, my dogs have to go through at least two gates from any direction. And in the event I have repairmen in the house, I add a free standing gate across the foyer, blocking off the front door....I consider this a matter of life and death for any of my Yorkies, and I do not trust them to obey any training they have had, over the natural instinct to give chase to some darting, scurring little fuzzy creature, like a cat or squirrel! | |
02-06-2014, 08:34 AM | #6 |
Donating YT 4000 Club Member | My neighbor has a standard baby gate on the outside of her front door to keep her dog inside. She can still open the door and talk to people,but there's no fear of her dog running out the front door if she (or her 5 year old) opens the door.
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02-06-2014, 09:01 AM | #7 |
Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas
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| This is a great idea!!!....Be prepared though....I did try this and my HOA went nuts, even though the gate was wooden, very nice, and you could not even hardly see it there in front of my front door which was the same type/color wood! By far my favorite solution to the problem! |
02-06-2014, 09:15 AM | #8 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: Hobby Farm, Manitoba, Canada
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| Wow, thanks for all the helpfull comments and ideas. I am realizing that my family will have to get on board with me and just know that we can't let anything happen to him. I think for the first while they thought I was nuts and overprotective but if this is a yorkie trait then I will use some of these ideas.
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02-06-2014, 09:24 AM | #9 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: Hobby Farm, Manitoba, Canada
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| I was just on the Cardinal Gate site and they have some great gates for high traffic areas and a special one for decks. I have had people over and accidently let him out, this will be a great idea. Thanks Yorkie pals!
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02-06-2014, 09:27 AM | #10 |
Action Jackson ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Maryland
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| There's a few good videos on youtube about this: Gates are a great added safety feature, but I really think a dog should be TRAINED not to door dash #1. We can have our sliding glass door open and Jackson will not go out of it until he is told. Is there a chance he could see something and run out? Of course there is, so we obviously avoid any doors being left open and I'm always checking to make sure he's in the house. But training really paid off. The other day, I realized that a back sliding glass door was open just enough to where he could've gotten out. It must have been open for over an hour, my stepdad had been getting firewood, and came in thru a different door. At that point, I was so thankful that Jackson knows not to go outdoors without me as we began working on it as a pup. We don't have the kind of house that makes it feasible to put gates on every door. In my one backroom, we literally have 3 sliding doors at all different corners, we have a main front door, a side porch door, and a back porch door lol. So our house would look quite ridiculous with that many gates.
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02-06-2014, 09:34 AM | #11 | |
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02-06-2014, 10:20 AM | #12 | |
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02-06-2014, 12:45 PM | #13 | |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: Hobby Farm, Manitoba, Canada
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02-06-2014, 01:24 PM | #14 |
Donating YT 4000 Club Member | HOA stands for homeowners association. Lots of rules and covenants about what you can and can't do with your property. In theory, they are in place to help preserve property values. In reality, they are a giant pain in the wazoo. As for my neighbor, she did get fined. She fought it because the covenants said no permanent alteration to the structure could be made without prior approval. She takes it down every couple of days for a few hours and then puts it back up. The HOA continued to try and fine her and tried to amend the covenants...unfortunately for them, the covenants can't be changed without a majority approval. And since the majority of households here have either a pet or a small child that we would do anything to prevent from being injured, the board didn't get too far.
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02-06-2014, 01:58 PM | #15 | |
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