My Yorkie Running outside when door opens I have a 7 month old Yorkie. Every time the door opens he runs out full speed across the street! I am terrified he is going to get hit by a car. any advice will be appreciated. thanks! Tina |
Welcome to Yorkie Talk. Baby gates! :) Train to sit and stay on command when the door is opened. Use a little rug or something designating the spot. Give the command with a hand signal. You can find videos on YouTube. Praise and reward when your pup follows the command. To be honest, I thought my boys were trained not to door dash. The other human in the house was not good at giving the stay command. Nor were guests. My Teddy got out and chased the UPS truck. I was very lucky to be returning home at the same time and saw him sprinting down our driveway. I called him to me and he came, hanging his head because he knew he was being naughty. I gave him a big hug because I didn't ever want him to be afraid to come to me. BUT, BUT, BUT, I put up baby gates that day to keep my boys away from the doors. They cannot enter the front foyer or the back hall to the garage. For me, better safe than sorry. |
Baby gates were me next step! Thank you |
Well I have had a dasher or two in my lifetime. It is stillvery good to train in the stay command. Use either sit/stay or down stay. Another option is if you have a fenced in front porch you could put a baby gate up at the top of the stairs so if they get out the front door they are not going very far or fast. Or spring for a iron grilled gate... |
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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. :rolleyes: 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. |
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Lilah is pretty good at sitting, staying and pouting when I tell her to while I walk out the house to go to work etc but she can feel when I am debating taking her or leaving her and knows when I don't mean it as much (ack!) and will go out, again that good girl will tip her head down turn tail and walk back in the house when I point and tell her to go back in but one thing that solidifies my decision to keep a baby gate at my front door still- and I do- is that when I am outside of the house and someone else goes in or out the door and she really wants to hang out with me- regardless of whether I might be weed whacking or mowing the lawn :eek: she will dash out to come find me. So...yep. A baby gate, we have one in our hallway to the other half of the house too. |
Training sit, stay, wait is a MUST. I have a gate on my front porch. Any time I open my front door to water planters, throw out trash, get the newspaper Cody dashes, pushes me out of the way to be the first one out because he knows that pesky squirrel is just sitting out there waiting for him lol, I do allow him, invite him to go out, BUT, when someone comes to the door, I put him in the SIT n STAY command, it kills him because he wants to be the greater lol but he gets to excited when company comes, when that gate opens I fear he will dash out of it, so he HAS to sit and stay inside the house. Gating off your porch is ideal, but training sit, stay, wait is a MUST for obedience. |
Luckily I live in an apartment. Mine get really excited when one comes to the door. Now they will run into the foyer but will come back to me on command. That was not always the case. Our stairwell doors are always left open and one time they went down the stairs I had to go to each floor trying to find them. |
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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. |
Piper had tendency to dash, too. And she, too, ran full-tilt for street. These little ones are lightening fast, smart enough to look for and calculate opportunity; and are completely deaf to their names, no, stop, etc., when they go! Just watch your little one VERY CAREFULLY ALL OF THE TIME and listen to the advice of our wise and experienced members; non better! |
Use baby gates Train "stay" at all applicable doors - use a long leash and tie him to a point where he can reach up to the door entrance. Train him to stay while leaving the door open and walking around him. Then, tell him to stay while you're outside the door. Do this daily with train & treats and he'll learn that staying on the inside of the door is a great thing! Note that you need to do this separately with ALL doors. At a new place, the doors are all different! It's also not a bad idea to always walk through all doorways before your dog. If he always likes to bypass you - it's rude! :p Train him to follow you for his safety :) |
Same here! That is one of my problem before, like the other said train him is one of the best solution you need to do or else you may go for a training program to teach him and improve hes behavior. |
1 Attachment(s) Mine are trained not to run out the door but I don't want to risk it...they (excluding Mimi) have a very high prey drive, so if they see a crow strolling by (they really do! LOL) or a cat, I know they'll go after them. Attachment 409828 We have a small animal x-pen covering the front door entrance. It's 15" high, so we can easily step over it. When it's walkies time, I just swing it open & they go through. |
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