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Originally Posted by Maximo  While training is very important, I decided to put up barriers to prevent accidents. My boys were trained to stay at the door. However, a certain human forgot to give the stay command and Teddy followed his impulse to jump out and chase the UPS truck down the street.
We put up babygates to keep the doggies from the doors. |
This is a matter of life and death....you may not get a do over! THIS is the one instance when I will take a thin little neighborhood newspaper, rolled up, and I will loudly slap that newspaper on MY LEG first, to startle the pup and stop him from going any further. If he persists in this behavior, and since I do NOT trust "training" when that predator drive kicks in and pup sees a squirrel in the yard, I WILL take the newspaper, hold it down alongside my leg, and when pup starts to bolt out the door, I bring that newspaper down IN FRONT OF PUP, LOUDLY AND FIRMLY YELL "NO"!!!!, AND HE THEN RUNS INTO THE NEWSPAPER, AND STOPS DEAD IN HIS TRACKS! He "thinks" he has been swatted..... If necessary, I will swat the pup in this instance, as this is NOT something I will allow or accept. I have to say, I avoid the swats by putting up baby gates throughout my home, totally keeping my pups away from any and all exits!
Nothing else warrants swats as far as I am concerned, except the "bolt out the door" stunt....that can result in DEATH!!!!