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Originally Posted by gemy  Well I have had a dasher or two in my lifetime. It is stillvery good to train in the stay command. Use either sit/stay or down stay. Another option is if you have a fenced in front porch you could put a baby gate up at the top of the stairs so if they get out the front door they are not going very far or fast. Or spring for a iron grilled gate... |
Even with baby gates and other backup, keep training for stay, down, stop, and so on.
We have xpens lining our deck. One day while I was blowing leaves off the deck and had the pens pushed aside, my dad opened the door and out came the dogs.
I also had the yard gate open. Max started doing a beeline for the open gate.
I yelled "Stop, down Max!" I nearly fell on top of him because I didn't expect him to obey. All of our training inside had paid off.
We've also had a couple incidents of dropped leashes in busy street areas.