Steve Malanga
Posted : 6/14/2006 12:08:03 PM
Our pup is too young yet and so we just keep letting her out as much as possible. We ask her to 'speak' before we open the door so hopefully she will soon figure out she has to ask to be let out.
Our 2-year-old Dakotah stands at the back door quietly until we notice. If we don't notice she'll start to bark in a very low voice, almost like a muffled 'woof.'' She seems to save her loud barks for cats, the mailman and so forth.
The funny thing is, if we're all nowhere near the back door, like all in the family room, she'll still just get up and go to the back door and wait for us to notice she's not in the room with her. I guess she's trained us because now when she leaves the TV room we figure she's heading for the back door.