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Hello! How is the best way to teach the young ones not to run out the front door. I am going to have a heart attack if he does it again. He is almost 6 months old and wants to go out the front door with me. His older brother doesn't do it any more but it took awhile to get him to quit. Any advice?

Can you teach your little one the "stay" command? My little girl constantly wants to go out the door but before I open it, I tell her to sit and then stay. She does it unwillingly but it keeps her from bolting out the door. Now if someone else opened the door...that's a different story. I would try the sit and stay command before you open the door. Hopefully some others will have some good advice.

Oh my goodness...I am having the same problem. 2 days ago Gizmo did it and went further than before. Some man thought he had himself a Yorkie and came running out of his door before he saw me running after Gizmo. (Picture that...me running :eek: ) I would like to know the answer to that as well.

Child safety gates are a god send - we use them all the time.

We use the gates too, my fur babies don't listen to me, just like my 2 legged ones

I can get him to sit and stay lasts for about 3 seconds.

Good advise :D . I've dealt with the "bolting out the door" also and this command came in handy. It could be a danger to our furbabies running out when not allowed. The most basic commands can save their little life!

I have the same problem. We open the door and there Gucci goes. Luckyly we live in an Apt. Im teaching her the sit and stay command. SO far she listens to the stay command at least for 10 sec, but she refuses to sit. Even with treats. I guess I have a very stubborn Yorkie. :rolleyes:

You could also try putting him on a leash and holding him inside until you tell him its ok to go out. Maybe have one person walk out and the other hold the leash and dog. Or if you are alone prop the door open and hold the leash yourself. Try teaching him not to go out unless you say its ok. This way in case someone else goes out and doesn't tell him to stay he still knows not to go out b/c noone has said its ok. Also I might try teaching him to walk out the door intead of run even when you tell him its ok to go out. Again keep him on the leash and make him walk not run out. After these you can go outside and work on teaching him to go inside when you tell him to. This would be nice when he does get out.
My big dogs know when I say "in your pin" to head to their fence, however they bolt out any chance they get and do it running full speed ahead. I had taught one to stay in his pin until I said he could get out. He's rebeling now and doesn't listen to much but it was nice while it lasted.
Anyway whatever you choose good luck and keep trying you'll get it soon enough.

I suggest using your dogs intelligence to your advantage. In my experience there are a couple ways to deal with this. I find that sit stay can often take a couple weeks to learn. The fastest method can actully be made into a type of game for the yorkie. Now since the yorkie is a smaller dog and his nose is already practicaly at the floor I recommened sitting or kneeling when doing this. Alright, put your dog on a leash and collar, it's preferable to have a neck collar. Please try to avoid any type of restriant collars as those can be avoided. I ask for a regular neck collar over a halter due to quicker reaction time. Anyway. Have a nice amount of bitesized treats for your dog, make it something special, something they will want to work for.

Now Sit with your dog at the door you want to train him to not cross and give him a treat or two so he knows just how good the stuff in your hand is. Make sure he sees it. Now after his attention is focused on that food toss it across the doorway.
Now make sure your dog has line to make his own choices, more then likely he will walk towards the treat and try to eat it. As he walk toward that treatand approchs the threshold give him a little tug back as hes about to step over and outside, he should start to process this after a couple atempts stop and as soon as he looks at you, give him a treat.
Toss anouther treat across the threashold and repeat this process see if instead of going after that treat he instead will look to you. Do this a couple times until this occurs every time he shows no intrest in the treat across the doorstep and looks to you for approval give him a treat.
eventualy you will be able to throw a treat across and he will look to you to see if it.
This is a good way to condion them to watch you when you are going out, and instead of focusing on the otherside of the door they are focusing on you.

PZ GUnstar, Thank you so much for the advise.

Wow...I'd of never thought of that! :rolleyes: Good advice and its something I will certainly remember to try.
Thanks so much! :D Melissa :aimeeyork

Thanks everyone for the advice. I needed it bad.

I live in NJ and I have several doors to go outside. Gucci sits by my front entrace and watches the activities outside, She is very smart, I open the door to see if she will run out so far so good. She knows that when we go bye bye I put her collar and lease on. The same with my sliders in my kitchen that go to the outside deck. I take her outside on deck without lease but she runs back inside. My husband says she probably associates going outside with lease and collar on. I wouldnt give her 100 percent trust, but these yorkies are very intelligent..

I totally agree with leash training. It has worked on so many things for us.