The wonders of a doggie door.

[keri1973]

Originally Posted by JeanieK

Oh the poor thing. He must have thought, "well the stupid woman, I had her trained and now she has relapsed." "I'll have to get on People talk and see if anyone else has had this problem with their people." LOL

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[keri1973]

Originally Posted by KELLY353

oh yes I miss my doggie door. Hubby is building a new fence so it's off limits right now, it makes it much easier. On the other hand I dont like them going out there without me. I live in the country and I am so afraid I am going be busy in the house doing something and then something is going to happen. But I do love the doggie door.

i have a screened in porch that he goes out on. he cant go any further than that. i keep my pad out there and he runs out to potty and runs back in.

[keri1973]

and i also have a baby gate up where the screen door is so he cant get out. i love it because i don't feel nervous about him going out there even when i'm not home.

[chachi]

I wish we had a doggie door. We have security storm door so I cant put one on it because of the wrought iron

[Yorkiedaze]

You can train a puppy to use a doggie door in just a few minutes, but it takes two people. One inside with treats and one outside with treats. YOu take turns gently pushing the pup thru. then the other person praises like crazy and gives a "tiny" treat. Back and forth like this for about 6 to 8 times, then a few hours later repeat. That's usually all it takes.
However, I would never let them outside unatended, unless you have a cement run with chain link fence on the sides and top. Too many things can happen to them.

[milomlo]

That is how I trained Cody but so far it has not worked with Izzy. I did tape it open today as someone suggested and she did come inside one time. :-)

[LIL MIS' MAGIC]

We love our doggie door..it has done wonders for potty training!! We had our new little male trained in about a week with the doggie door, he loves being able to go in and out. The babies have a little fence in area with concrete and grass for potty and then a gate to the big yard where they can play when we are out there with them.

It was really easy to train them, we taped it up for a couple of days. Then we put up a towel there to get them used to going through something and then a week later we put the flap down and they were ready to go on their own. I can't imagine not having a doggie door now!!

[YorkieMom55]

Originally Posted by JeanieK

The parti girls have only been here about 10 days, and they aren't even 12 weeks old yet, and they already know to go outside to poop. I have seen them run out just to poop and come back in. We're still working on peeing, that's hit and miss.

It won't be long and they'll be doing less miss and more hit's.
Those are smart girls.