[iwebkat]

OK - here is my second issue. Using of a doggie door.

My 1 year old Tera is quite finicky. Her new "brother", Koda, is a rough and tumble boy. They are both small yorkies. Tera weighs about 3 3/4#, whereas Koda is growing, but is only 2.5# at 4 months. I think they will both be between 3 1/2 to 4# when grown (according to the yorkie growth charts).

When we bought Koda, he was already used to a doggie door. We decided to replace our full glass door with a storm door complete with doggie door built into the bottom. Koda took to it, and runs in and out constantly. Sometimes he just likes to go out and run around. (We have a smaller section fenced off because we have a pretty large back yard. We want them in the smaller enclosed area.)

Now Tera is another thing. I have tried and tried to get her to go through the door. If you hold the flap open, she will tentatively go through the door. I've tried luring her through with a treat, but this usually doesn't work unless I have the flap partially open. Koda will go back out and back in to try to encourage her to use it, but no, she doesn't. (Not even with the treats that she loves.) She will just sit there and cry for you to open the flap.

I don't want to ruin the flap by taping it up, but think I'm going to have to do that for awhile to allow her to go through the opening. If I can just get her to push through instead of tentatively tapping on it, and then the magnet closing again.

Any suggestions on this one?

Sorry to ask two questions at once, but these two things are really bugging me right now. Thanks in advance for any help that is offered.