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. |