 I can relate!
When we got Gage, we let him out along with Gabby in order to work on outside potty training. We live way back off the road but we are on a dead end street, and we are also surrounded by woods. Gage would always get out the gate before we could stop him and forget stopping when we'd yell at him (made him run faster in the opposite direction). We started closing the gate (once we are all home for the day) and he is now at a point where even if the gate is open, he won't go out of it. Each time he goes to the gate, I tell him "backyard" (that's how we trained Gabby to not go in the front yard). It's taken us about 3 months of really working with him on it and it's finally paying off. Like someone else suggested, if your backyard is not fenced, you may want to consider doing that to contain your little one where you want. Best of luck! |