i've given this post lots of thought. i think i may have found a solution. Assuming you live in house with more than one room, i'd install some doggy doors within the house, especially on the roooms your dog frequents the most or go for broke and install one on every doorway in the house. A simple baby gate, plywood or sturdy cardboard with a doggy door cut out should suffice. Also if the dog knows your in the room that may give it some extra courage to go thru. Please keep us in the loop so we're not kept in suspense when the thread is eventually locked...
Pet door
My dog 2 1/2 female chihuahua has just leant to walk through a pet door but only when I lift the door open or the door is lifted by the tape. It’s been 3 weeks so I’d like to take a next step and I want her to open the door herself.
She’s not food/toy motivated so I don’t know how to train her from here.
One day, I left home for 3 hours without her. I got home found her outside soaking wet shaking. (It’s winter here and was pouring rain!) I checked a home security camera and saw she ran outside to look for me as soon as I left. Then she didn’t know how to get back in so she was by the pet door looking inside from there for the whole time I was out.
I tried it 2 days later and left her home alone n spied on her through the camera - she got out through her door but just doesn't go back in. She looked she was scared n didn’t know what to do.
So yes she knows how to get outside but doesn’t know how to get back inside.
Now, every time she needs/wants to go outside, I still open her door. (She goes out through her door by herself only when she is alone at home) Leave her outside until she comes back to her door and waits for me to open. So I don’t see the point of the pet door.
How do I train her?
She’s not food/toy motivated so I don’t know how to train her from here.
One day, I left home for 3 hours without her. I got home found her outside soaking wet shaking. (It’s winter here and was pouring rain!) I checked a home security camera and saw she ran outside to look for me as soon as I left. Then she didn’t know how to get back in so she was by the pet door looking inside from there for the whole time I was out.
I tried it 2 days later and left her home alone n spied on her through the camera - she got out through her door but just doesn't go back in. She looked she was scared n didn’t know what to do.
So yes she knows how to get outside but doesn’t know how to get back inside.
Now, every time she needs/wants to go outside, I still open her door. (She goes out through her door by herself only when she is alone at home) Leave her outside until she comes back to her door and waits for me to open. So I don’t see the point of the pet door.
How do I train her?
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