Teaching your dog to respect thresholds is CRUCIAL in preventing them from getting lost.
On Saturday night, my mother called me because her newly adopted dog had bolted out the front door when someone came by.
He ran from Overbrook onto the westbound lane of the 417 and went down the highway eastbound, got off on St Laurent, continued to dodge cars until someone caught him and brought him safely home.
There are many ways to prevent this but teaching your dog to respect thresholds and not go through them without you or your explicit permission can save their life.
Thresholds include but are not limited to all doorways- crate, car/hatch, patio, front door etc.
My mom will be getting a baby gate to put at the bottom of her stairs to ensure he doesn’t make it up to the door again. But we will also be working through our threshold training. It’s better to rely on the dogs training and thought process than human reliability in my opinion!
Mistakes happen. Make your dog accountable.
I tried to include the other videos of this exercise but it would let me include more than one.
Kai began his stay by scratching at the crate door and trying to rush out. His owners requested we work on his impulse control so this is the number one exercise we do- we also do this at our dog door to the yard for both going out and coming in.
Book writing underway! 📖 it’s coming along nicely- I’m so excited for you all to get your hands on it!
Bug helped my write this morning for two hours while we waited at the ford dealer for my oil change/maintenance. 🚗
Hopping into the weekend like..
