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03-19-2010, 08:28 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: MI, USA
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| Door training Hey everyone! It's been a while since I have logged onto this site. Things got pretty busy for me around here, but Owen is doing great. I wanted to ask everyone's opinion on something. In August I will be moving into a town house with three of my friends and it is on a generally busy road. Owen has run out of the door a couple times since I've had him in my apartment this year and it makes me nervous about what may happen if he runs out the front door of my townhouse. I'm just unsure of what precautions I should take and what I can do about it. Any tips/suggestions/training suggestions? Thanks so much! Hope you all and your puppies are doing wonderful
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03-19-2010, 08:44 AM | #2 |
YT Addict Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Canada
Posts: 468
| If possible put up a gate, so Owen can't get to the door. Or a fence outside the door. Start training, before you move, to not bolt, at the door. I sweep backwards with my foot when I go to the door,and say "Back, back, back", when the puppy's are very young. By the time they leave me, they understand this (to a degree ) I do this at ALL of my doors, including the one they go out to potty. The only door they are allowed out, on there own power (walking) is their potty door. I litrally pick them up, and set them outside, any other door. They "know" they can't go out those doors, and wait for me. I do this when visiting too, so if I am out, I worry less. Is it 100%? Never, but it works very well, for us. When you take him out to potty, now, do you leash him, and let him run through the door? If you do, you must stop this now. Have him wait for you, to give the ok. So that is my suggestion... Good luck!
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03-19-2010, 08:47 AM | #3 |
YT Addict Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: PA & FL
Posts: 403
| Look for a retractable gate that you can attach to the door jam or wall and then to the door. As the door opens, the gate will open across the entrance so that you can talk to whoever is there, but the dog cannot get out. I have seen these, but cannot remember where. |
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