How do u teach ur cutie(s) that running out the front door is not allowed?
 

Duncan just scared me to death...

When I was trying to tell post lady that I have outgoing mails with doors open, he just run out!

He was sitting away from the door and listend to the command sit and stay, it just happened in ONE second... I rushed out to chase him. It's just horrible, the post lady ignored me telling her that I have mails and Duncan jumped around her for a little bit, Duncan was just running everywhere and it's raining hard..

He didnt have this problem before, never try to step out the front door himself, just change his habbit all in a sudden some time recently. How should I let him know he should never do this again?

That is so scarey! I'm glad that you got him back inside safely. I've installed a baby gate so that my furbabies don't even have access to the front area where the door is. They only go past the babygate if I am carrying them.

I'm not sure how to teach them not to run out the door, but I would definitely put up a baby gate until then as a precaution. They have these short 18-inch gates that we use so they're easy to step over and the dogs can't get over, but there's a door through them.

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Lesson learned here, only let it happen once. Now I always make sure Ruby is in my arms when the front door opens, even if it is just to get the mail or newspaper.

I use this trick with Uni. Each and every doorway in the house, I go first, and she follows. Before you go through the door, have him sit, you walk through, then say good boy, come on! Do it every single time. i did this for a long time when Uni was a baby. So they will eventually understand that ALL doorways they have to wait for your OK to go through. Most likely Duncan was just trying to say hi to the mail carrier. If Uni sees someone outside, then yes she will run through, but only to the person, not to go down the street. Also, if i call her back in, she will come back in.

Also work on your "stay". Have Duncan stay and you back away from him a few feet, with you facing him. Then come back to him and reward. Don't have him stay then come to you. He needs to know the difference between stay and come, and sometimes it will confuse them if you have them come to you. Keep extending the distance and time of your stay, until you know he got it. Then try doing the stay and you turn your back from him, then come back.

In the meantime while training, yes get the baby gate. :)

Excellent advice! It can seem a little overwhelming at first, but it works and it's worth it!

i used cesar milan techniques. (when he's trying to get his point across to a dog he does this shhhh sound) my dogs really respond to that. of course there's more to it, but it's pretty similar to the above post and learning the stay-sit command.
it worked pretty good, at a time i thought they'd never get the point, but right now lewie and manolo sit and just watch as the door opens.

I have taught Prissy and Jasmine to stay so they don't go out the door. This has worked well for us. Even though our yard is fenced, there are times that I don't want them to go outside.

You have already gotten some really good advice. I just want to second the work on the stay command. It is such a great command, when they know it really well.

Copper wont come for the life of me... but if I say stay he freezes instantly(so I can then walk over and pick him up of-course :rolleyes:) If food is dropped on the ground close to him and I don't want him to eat it I just use stay, it has saved him a few times. Also good if they are running off or to keep them from running out.

You can train him not to do that; but in the meantime I strongly suggest you put a gate up so that he cannot dash out.
I have gates at both doors that lead to an unsecured yard. One accident could be deadly.

Uni does this too! I don't know how she knew that stay meant stop and freeze as well b/c if we say stop or freeze she doesn't know what we want of her! If she is tapping me on the leg, and I bend down to pick her up and she backs away (which is annoying, why do you do that? :rolleyes:) I say "stay" and she stays, wags her tail, and puts her head down, like "okay...." ;)

I know they are so funny:p I can't figure out the back away thing either...

I just used baby gate when Duncan was a puppy. I dont feel good to lock him in somewhere, maybe that was kinda not smart, he's locked in the house when he's not a walk any way...

I have one already, however it was been used for keep bunny in the kichen after Duncan is house trained..

Yeah, Duncan should be in arm too that's what usually the case.

This time he just seemed being so good, so I put him down and he sat away from the door before he decided to rush out.

omg! u foresee soooo well! What is the old Chinese saying again? Something like u need to practice every day to get urself ready for one day, something like that..

Duncan just rushs out the door which ever door it is. He just likes to the first one to sneek in and out the bedroom and he also know how to push open doors..

I told him sit and stay before the incident, he did listen and did good. Duncan never dares to step out the front door before for some reason, and it all changed in a sudden for some reason. He was trying to say hi to post lady, she total neglected him, then he started to run around.. It may also because it's been storm for sevel days, he just needs to run around?
I yeld Duncan to come back or at least to me, he just turned around glanced at me then kept going.

r u a pro trainer? I'm gonna follow the steps starting from tomorrow

tnx a lot!

What is shhh technique please?

I never thought about I should also set up rules in backyard. I should do that too, Duncan is going there and stay there when I dont have time to saty there with him or he just dont go when he should..

Please make my Duncan freeze when he hears stay when ever too..

U r so rite~ deadly!

Duncan does this when running around inside, he stays and sits but when I bent over he runs again. How do deal with this?

Totally agree! Jackson typically always walks out the door AFTER me and it helps a ton. We can have the door wide open (we have sliding glass door that leads out 90 acres of farmland - so not much he can get into anyways!) and he will stay if I tell him to and not go out of the door. It takes a lot of patience and training.

I made the mistake of always using "stay" and then "come" so I don't think Jackson understood 'come' as a single command without 'stay'. We've been working on coming when called w/o being in a stay first.

My two know that as soon as I put on my shoes I am going somewhere. Most of the time it's off to work but they start getting antzy. Before I open the door I tell them to stay and I can open the door and they just look out. It works for me but they don't pay attention to my husband so we are constantly on guard

I agree good advice. My dogs are leashed when we go out, so when we go to the door to go out, they stand there waiting to be leashed, when we come in the door they stand untill I unleash them. If they were to go to the door when someone came in or the kids ran out the door and left it open some, they got a sharp NO and I removed them from the door. I started when they were tiny pups house training.. they just learned from that. Now if someone comes to the door, Tucker will go to the door but stand there, not one time has he bolted out the door. He knows he has to be on a leash to go out.However, As a safety measure, I have installed a gate that automatically shuts across my porch that stays shut all the time. :) You can never be too safe with the these little guys...

I trained my 3 to only use the BACK DOOR to go outside. It is NEVER allowed for them to go out the front door of the house for any reason. It is the same with the car~they do into the car on the back passanger side and out of the car on the driver side.

You need to incorperate this into the sit-stay and never allowing them to go out the door ahead of you. It is all consistance and training.

When I first brought Pebbles home when she was 5 months old she dashed out the back gate, front door, back door you name it. My son opened the door for the UPS man and out she went. He's was chasing her around the front yard with the neighbor trying to catch her and he was NOT happy! I knew this was so very very dangerous and began working with her immediatley.

Now they are only allowed outside from one door and I no longer have to worry about opening the gate either. They just stay right inside the gate and he can come and go without worry.

I would suggest in the beginning to use a harness and leash when you open the door. Have someone help you by coming to the door and when you open the door to let them into the house, STEP ON THE LEASH so there is no danger of her running out. Tell her to sit-stay give treat. Open the door while stepping on the leash and if she stands correct her. Make her sit again. Use this technique until you are sure that she is following your directing. Then you can move on to not stepping on the end of the leash when you open the door.

I would suggest not using the baby gate as suggested in some of the other posts. It was very effective to use this technique and there was no danger of anyone being hurt trying to climb over a gate either.

If you are able to accomplish this you will never have to worry about opening any door and having a pup that will dart out for you.

There have been far too many stories on YT to not make this a top priority in training.

I got pretty lucky with Tobie... I never trained him to not run out the door... he just kinda picked up on it. I think it's just that he won't go outside without momma because I've never let him. It happened ONE time when he was little and all I did was turn around and run back inside and hauled butt back inside too.

Pann does this when it's raining and only when it's raining. He's getting better at listening to stay but it's frightening. When people come over they don't realize the bottom panel of glass/plastic is missing from the front door (we rent our place) and close it real quick trying to stop him and he just slips right out, luckily he get to the grass and waits for me like mommy what are you doing come on! I just thank God we don't live on a busy street.

Teddy is the same way. He will be the first to run out the doorway. He get's soo anxious when we go for walks. I didn't train him well..but that's my fault. Now I'm making sure these new girls get trained well..they are in training class so I am going to teach them not to run out doors.

training is the key!

Lucky u!