Nikko does this to me all the time too... and we don't have a fenced-in yard so we have to put the leash on him and walk him out. It definitely becomes very time consuming, and horribly aggravating. I'm considering going to the Home Depot and buying some of that temporary fencing, the plastic stuff, and some stakes. We'd still supervise him, but maybe at least we could do it through a window, or at least we wouldn't have to do the whole leash routine every five minutes.
I have no real advice, I'm sorry. The only thing I've really noticed is that he doesn't try to ring the bell or get outside when he's alseep, lol. So our best solution at this point is to completely wear him out. We do super long walks, invite the neighbor dog over to play, and today I'm going to go look at a potential doggie daycare place. Someday, I hope to have a place where we can install a doggie door that leads out into our beautiful big fenced-in backyard. But until then.... :-)
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