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Originally Posted by Maximo   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. |
Oh I know the dropped leashes very well. I was showing Magic when he was a puppy and somehow the scamp, sinewed out of his show collar - did some magic up and over its head it went - I was left standing in the ring with no dog by myside. He had decided he just must meet the spectators. They were not thrilled! LOL. I am surely red with embarassment when I left the ring to go get him back. Thankfully the judge did not DQ us. We finished in first place despite that.