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It's really great Gus knew the way home just for the reason you stated.

As much as I really hate walking Cody around my community because of lose dogs, dogs dashing out of homes when door is opened, staked dogs at front of houses, I force myself to do the walk for that very reason. Cody is a door dasher, my fault, I allowed him to dash out onto the gated front deck when I first rescued him. Then realized how dangerous that was when someone came to my door and did not close that gate.

I had trained Cody to sit, stay and wait but never used it when we went to sit at the front of the house. Now he sits and waits to be invited to come out but, that is not to say he would never dash at the open door. So he must get to know his way home if he ever got out of the house.