Angelboddy Posted June 19, 2003 Posted June 19, 2003 O.k, I am soooo mad :evil: This will be a second time that she has smashed in our back screen doors screen. I don't know how to get her to stop jumping at it. When she wants in, she jumps up and down and barks. But some times she falls into it. This is getting so fusterating...... Does anyone have this problem with their dog/dogs? And does anyone have any suggestions? Quote
sheltielover Posted June 19, 2003 Posted June 19, 2003 When I first got Honey, I lived at home with my parents. She LOVED to run through the screen door! Well, when hubby and I bought our house we invested in a dog door that is made for sliding glass doors. It's been wonderful!! The girls have all the freedom the want to go in and out (they are worse then kids running in and out sometimes :roll: ) and we have piece of mind that they won't destroy the screen door! Quote
Angelboddy Posted June 19, 2003 Author Posted June 19, 2003 We are currently renting our home, so we can't get something like that. I would love to be able to, Nostalgia always wants in and out. She knows how to open the screen door to go out, but she just can't get it. Quote
sheltielover Posted June 19, 2003 Posted June 19, 2003 I don't think you would have to own your home to use the dog door. All we do is pull the sliding door open, insert the door (it is the whole height of the sliding door....the top is plexiglass, the bottom half is the dog door) then you pull the sliding door closed up against the dog door. If I can find a pic of it I will post it...... Quote
sheltielover Posted June 19, 2003 Posted June 19, 2003 Ok, here is what we have: They do come in different sizes.....we love it!!! Now I don't have to worry about when the girls need to go out to potty. They just go out and do their thing. Quote
Angelboddy Posted June 19, 2003 Author Posted June 19, 2003 I don't think that would work on a screen door. That looks like the sliding kind of screen door. I don't have that type. Quote
Angelboddy Posted June 19, 2003 Author Posted June 19, 2003 Do you have any other good ideas? Would you like to chat? Quote
gooeydog Posted June 19, 2003 Posted June 19, 2003 Two things that I can think of are: 1: put her into avoidance. Make something unpleasant happen every time she goes up to the door and barks/carries on. That can be getting squirted from an upstairs window, having a loud sound go off, or you scolding her (some dogs might actually see this as a reward though, so you have to be careful). I used this on Goo after she went through my window... I taped one of those alarms people carry (I guess in case they're mugged or something), with the string/pin that can be pulled out to make it go off, to the curtain, then tied the string to an eyehook in the wall. Everytime she got up in the window, she moved the curtain, and the alarm would go off. I'd hear it and come in to chew her out about it. I felt horrible about yelling at her so much at the time, but it only took 4 or 5 times before she was completely avoiding the window. For Goo, the unpleasant thing was me coming in to yell at her, it worked for us because she's really soft and sensitive to me, so my being so mad at her was among the worst punishments possible for her. The alarm was only there so that I could hear her getting in the window, and was taken down as soon as she had learned to stay down. One thing to be careful about if you do this is timing the "punishment" so that she knows it's for barking/carrying on, NOT for just coming up to the door. You don't want her to be so scared that she's afraid to walk up to/through the doorway, either. 2: The other way would be to just make her sit everytime before she comes in, or maybe to make her ring a bell instead to let you know. She can't sit and jump up at the same time, so if sitting gets her in, she should completely stop jumping. If you're worried you won't see her sitting there, put in a doorbell and teach her to use it, or just a string that leads to a normal bell inside. If it were my dog, I'd try to use the second way first, and only try the first one if all else failed, as it's not hard to mess up and confuse the dog or create worse problems. Now after realizing what type of screen door you were talking about, if you can't get her to stop jumping, you could also just go buy a window grate and put it on the outside of the door. That would keep her from ripping the screen. Quote
behle Posted June 19, 2003 Posted June 19, 2003 Can you put a metal guard over the screen mesh? Something that is expanded aluminum so you can still get the breeze and see out but that she can't crash through? Quote
sheltielover Posted June 19, 2003 Posted June 19, 2003 Angel I would love to chat but hubby will be home soon..... :( and i guess i should spend time with him, huh...LOL we can chat tomorrow?!? i'll keep my AIM open tomorrow and we can chat!!!!! Quote
Angelboddy Posted June 19, 2003 Author Posted June 19, 2003 behle napisał(a):Can you put a metal guard over the screen mesh? Something that is expanded aluminum so you can still get the breeze and see out but that she can't crash through? I'm not sure about the guard thing. I guess i can look into it and cheak at home depots. And thanks for everyone that has given me advice. gooeydog, I think I will try the displine thing first. Nostalgia really dislikes being displined. I feel so bad for doing it. I have never had to displine her much. I just need to catch her in the act. Because when i start walking over to the kitchen where the door is, she stops right away. Sheltielover, I will keep my aim open tomarrow to. I will be looking forward to chating with you. We've got a lot we can talk about. Quote
courtnek Posted June 20, 2003 Posted June 20, 2003 there is a screen cage you can get at Home improvement stores. It's metal, and it looks like a heavy metal screen with wide holes, so the air can come in through the regular screen. it attaches right to the door and stays there. you put it on the outside of the door. The dog cannot break through it and cannot reach the screen. My lab did the same thing, that's how I came across the screen cage. Quote
Angelboddy Posted June 20, 2003 Author Posted June 20, 2003 courtnek napisał(a):there is a screen cage you can get at Home improvement stores. It's metal, and it looks like a heavy metal screen with wide holes, so the air can come in through the regular screen. it attaches right to the door and stays there. you put it on the outside of the door. The dog cannot break through it and cannot reach the screen. My lab did the same thing, that's how I came across the screen cage. Thanks courtnek, i'll have to look in on that. Any idea of what the price range might be? Quote
courtnek Posted June 20, 2003 Posted June 20, 2003 It's been installed for 5 years. At the time, it was about $35.00 Quote
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