Who here uses doggie doors?

[Sterling]

I'm just curious as to who here uses those doggie doors which attach to your door and has a little flap so your dog can go in and out of the house at will. I have always been afraid to use them for fear that some unwanted creature other than my dog (animal or human) will crawl thru there. What are the benefits and would you use one?

 

[Robin1]

I would use one in a heart beat if I had a way to use it. IF you are worried about other creatures coming in, they have one that your dog wears a certain collar and the flap will only release to the animal wearing it.

As for people coming in. If your dog is big enough to need a big door, I wouldn't think someone would want to go through and find out.

Here's a hint for you though. You don't need as big a door as they tell you. Just put the doggie door higher up on your door so your dog doesn't have to duck. Just make sure your dog can step through it comfortably. They also come with a solid door that slides in behind it that you can lock.

Robin

 

[runamuk]

I'm just curious as to who here uses those doggie doors which attach to your door and has a little flap so your dog can go in and out of the house at will. I have always been afraid to use them for fear that some unwanted creature other than my dog (animal or human) will crawl thru there. What are the benefits and would you use one?

:bgrin :bgrin :bgrin SORRY JUST HAD TO LAUGH....I think your dogs like mine basically just leaving the dang door open is the only good option..... :bgrin :bgrin ....and I can just picture my mini's sheep and the dang goat using the dog door :new_shocked: :new_shocked: since they are almost

: all smaller than my biggest dog

 

[tuffsmom]

My grandparents have a doggie door.

My grandfather got up early one morning (crazy man gets up at like 4 a.m.), only to have a bullsnake bite him 3 times on the foot! :new_shocked: We were just thankful it wasn't a rattlesnake!

The snake, obviously came through the doggie door, as it was laying about 5 feet infront of it. Needless to say, they no longer have the doggie door.

 

[keeperofthehorses]

We had one when we lived in suburbia. Loved it. I vaguely remember sleeping all night without interruption.

Now, every morning at 4AM when the cats decide to start the 'I wanna come in, no I wanna go out, on second thought in...' nonsense I wish I had one. But we get skunks on the back porch frequently in the summer, so can't do it. My mom has one, and found the neighbors ferret nosing around in her living room one morning.

 

[ChrystalPaths]

:new_shocked: With my luck here I'd get raccoons, possums and skunks oh my :new_shocked: and I'd bet the dogs would still scratch the door.

 

[Farmhand]

We use one on the garage for our cats that stay by the house. They use it to sleep or stay when it is bad weather. Have had it about 14 years, never any unwanted guests or problems.

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[Hosscrazy]

When I bought my house, it came with a built-in doggie door. I don't use it for 2 reasons: I think my dog would be too freaked out by climbing through the opening, and I also have indoor kitties. One of my kitties would be fine, but the other one would probably end up following my dog outside!!!

Liz R.

 

[tifflunn]

:lol: I have to laugh if you are putting a doggie door in for Lakota -that is going to take up 1/3 of your door! :lol: I want pictures! :bgrin Tiffany

 

[Wee Mite Miniatures]

I have one and used to love it. It goes out into a big fenced in yard. In 6 years I never had a problem with it. A year ago I ended up with one of my sons cats. A NUT. She has always been an inside cat but she has gone out the dog door on me. With the coyotes here I do not want her out. We had a neighbors cat taken right in our drive way.

 

[mininik]

My dad has a dog door for his Maine Coon CAT, T.C. He's old, neutered and declawed. More dog like than cat, though, using the dog door and comes when called. He would never think of jumping the fence and drinks from the pool. Only once has there been an uninvited guest and it was a stray who must have followed T.C. into the house.

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I wish I had one here for my two doggies...

 

[Horsefeathers]

We had doggy doors here at my grandmothers... the cats love them... don't have a dog currently, but hopefully will after we get settled out on our land.

Chris

 

[Sterling]

:bgrin Oh no Tiff.....I'm not planning to put one up, I was just curious as to who here had them. In the past I had "thought" about it waaayyy before I got Lakota...it was especially for a cat that we had. But like Liz and Wee Mite, I have a cat that does'nt go out...he's not street smart so he stays inside. I was just thinking about some stories some of my farmer friends had told me about them and wanted to know if anyone experienced anything as well.

 

[tifflunn]

Now you have me thinking too about these doors and the country- do people get unexpected visitors?

 

[runamuk]

OHHHH I was so picturing a dog door for lakota where you just cut off the bottom of the door and added a flap :bgrin :bgrin :bgrin

OK my years in a pet shop.......

customer..."do you have any kind of cat door that won't let..skunks, opossums, and squirrels in?" why yes we do the cat must wear a collar with a magnet device that allows the flap to open......

I sold a whole lot of those doors :bgrin apparently getting up to get ready to work and finding a skunk in the kitchen isn't cool :new_shocked: :bgrin

One of the best was a regular customer who bought one and raved about it to her neighbor...who came in a month later unbeknownst to us they bought the same "color" system so their cats still could go eat at each others buffet's...that one was pretty cute.....

strangest thing I ever heard of coming in a cat door...hmmmm.....snakes, squirrels, opossums, skunks, oh a raccoon who went years before getting busted, frogs, neighbor cats, one person had a neighbor dog that used to let itself in........

I am afraid of dog doors because my kids would decide to use it then next thing I know we'd have sheep etc...in the house...not to mention a pack of kids :new_shocked: :new_shocked: :new_shocked:

 

[Sterling]

OHHHH I was so picturing a dog door for lakota where you just cut off the bottom of the door and added a flap :bgrin :bgrin :bgrin

:new_rofl: :new_multi: :bgrin :aktion033:

 

[hhpminis]

We have one for our dogs but at night they are kenneled so we have a metal cover that slides over ours to keep any unwanted guests out. During the day we have never had a problem with anything coming in.

 

[Miniv]

We have one for our dogs but at night they are kenneled so we have a metal cover that slides over ours to keep any unwanted guests out. During the day we have never had a problem with anything coming in.

That's the ticket!

: Lock it up at night!

MA

 

[Bluerocket]

I had one when I lived in Georgia -- it was the perfect size for cats and corgi's -- however too small for the mastiff --- It was one of those that you can put in a sliding glass door (plastic insert) -- one day I came home and it was raining -- and the mastiff had tried to comeinside (instead of staying under the carport in her dog house -- a lovely one -- and basically knocked down the whole thing --- fortunately I had vinyl floors -- or what a mess!! we also had a goat for 2 hours (yes, I returned it immediately) and the doggie door was the first thing the goat found!

I have had skunks and racoons try it out as well --- soooooo -- no more doggie doors for me!

JJay

 

[chandab]

When I was in CO a friend had the style that fits in the sliding door track for her lab, miniature schnauzer and bichon. It just went to the back yard, so not unwanted guests.

I was watching America's funniest animals the other night and they showed a fawn coming in through a little doggy door, cutest thing I ever saw.