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OT - Doggie Doors
Remember we were talking about training dogs or cats to go through pet
flaps? Well damned if I haven't discovered the easiest way of doing it! Keep the flappy thing tied up for about a week making sure that doggy/cat knows that through the hole is the ONLY way of getting in and out. Then invite people over for dinner one glorious night and have dinner outside on the deck. Close the flap on the pet door and put your dog inside. Within 2 minutes dog will be outside. Worked with us, now we can't stop him! -- Sharon From Melbourne Australia (Queen of Down Under) http://www.geocities.com/shazrules/index.html Member of the Houston 2004 Party Animals |
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Glad it worked so well Sharon. Sure wish we
could use one of those but we have inside only cats. This dog we have now will stare at the door to go out but won't go without a lot of prompting. She has lots of odd habits we are working on. She is improving so that is good. A doggy door sure would be nice. Taria Sharon Harper wrote: Remember we were talking about training dogs or cats to go through pet flaps? Well damned if I haven't discovered the easiest way of doing it! Keep the flappy thing tied up for about a week making sure that doggy/cat knows that through the hole is the ONLY way of getting in and out. Then invite people over for dinner one glorious night and have dinner outside on the deck. Close the flap on the pet door and put your dog inside. Within 2 minutes dog will be outside. Worked with us, now we can't stop him! -- Sharon From Melbourne Australia (Queen of Down Under) http://www.geocities.com/shazrules/index.html Member of the Houston 2004 Party Animals |
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Thanks Mary. I've seen those. Daisy is a golden retriever and
too big. She has some really weird habits we are trying to get over. She was about 8 months when we brought her home and has been here a little over 2 months. I understand it takes 3-6 months to actually get past the break in time with a rescue dog. Hope the cats and I can last that long! Taria Tia Mary-remove nekoluvr to reply wrote: From: Taria Sure wish we could use one of those but we have inside only cats. This dog we have now will stare at the door to go out but won't go without a lot of prompting. She has lots of odd habits we are working on. She is improving so that is good. A doggy door sure would be nice. Have you thought about getting one of the electronic-magnetic pet doors? That's what we have and it's wonderful! The major downside is that it IS expensive compared to a regular pet door. Also, they are for small dogs only -- we have a 20# Lhasa Apso and she is about as big as the door can handle. DH and I travel a lot and we would keep the dog in the basement (kitties got to stay in the house) where we had installed a regular type pet door so that she could get out in the yard to go potty. Apparently, she would stand out there and bark all night because she wanted to be inside in the house, not the basement. The neighbors started bad mouthing us around the neighborhood instead of coming to us and telling us the dog was being a P.I.T.A.!! That's when I told DH it was time to bite the bullet and spend the money on the fancy-schmancy pet door. Besides, if the dog had to go potty during the night, she would wake ME up (never DH) and I had to go downstairs to let her out and then wait until she finished her business!! Anyway, this type of pet door has a battery in it. It comes with a special magnetic thingie you put on the collar so that when the dog gets right up on the door, the magnet in the collar releases the door latch and the dog can go through the door. If there is no magnet on the collar (or the battery dies) the door won't open! Originally, the door was made to have the latch on the outside so that strays or wild critters couldn't sneak into your home. We put the latch on the inside so that only the dog can go out -- the kitties are still restricted to the house! Fortunately, with the dog in and out all the time, any wild critters are not interested in coming into our home -- LOL! If you might be interested in this, I can find the info for the link and send it to you. IIRC, the cost with shipping, extra battery, etc. was somewhere around $80.00. Like I said, worth every penny to us -- me especially -- LOLOL! There is an electronic door made but they cost BIG bucks -- like $250 or so! They are truly electronic and need to be plugged into the power source -- no batteries. This type has the door roll up and the electromagnetic type we have has a regular flap. CiaoMeow ^;;^ . PAX, Tia Mary ^;;^ Queen of Kitties Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their WHISKERS!! Nothing is complete without a few cat hairs! |
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