Door Scratching
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| I can't say I know how to stop the scratching but you migt be able to cover the bottom half of the door with a pice of plexi glass. My beagle Barney put holes in our door from scratching on it to go out.You also might put in a doggie door if you have a fenced yard. Good Luck let me know if you solve this problem. |
| walter scratches to get let out of rooms so we left his leash and choke chain on and everytime he jumped up we would tug on it so he wouldnt get the chance. then i would have him sit and go down and stay then open the door so he realized that doingnice things gets the door open. maybe if you can somehow get him to scratch the door in front of you you can try this, otherwise im also anxious to hear other suggestions |
| I don't think this will work for you because it seems obvious and you've most likely done it. But...the 5mth old that i just got would scratch to come in, I would let her in and after a couple of days of that I decided bad idea. So, when she would do it, I'd say NO QUIET, wait when she was quiet I'd let her in.
No she doesn't bother with scratching, she just lays there patiently waiting. I usually don't leave her out there for long, because mine won't tiptoe she heads straight for mud and puddles. |
| Thanks for all the advice so far....
Does anyone have a full glass door (not a storm door - actual insulated door) - I was curious if dogs can scratch the glass? I'm wondering if that's an idea? |
| We have a glass back door. My other dog scrathed it all up along the bottom. We have a stormdoor on the front now, and Abbi will lay with her nose pressed against it all day long. I do not think glass doors will help.
Abbi barks to come in. I say quiet. Wait until she's been quiet, and then let her in. She will not say anything when she wants out though. I tried making her speak, but she will only do it when I make her. She thinks I have telepathy, she just sits by the door and stares at me if I am down there. Weird. As for the scratching. You will have to get your 2 kids, husband and your self all prepped for a weekend of nothing but watching Big Ben. The minute he starts scratching tell him no. Leave him out side, telling him to speak. When he speaks, open the door and let him in. If he doesn't speak and you want to let him in you can, but you will only be teaching him not to scratch the door. I was told to put a bell by the door and teach them to ring the bell with peanutbutter and praise and constant watching and prodding. Persistence will win the day. Guess I should follow my own advice! Better go make her speak to go out. |
| agingright
I thought what you said about your dog being telepathic was so funny.My 8 year old mix breed does the same thing she looks at me with this intence gaze when she wants to go out. I read in a book called "catch your dog doing something right " by Krista Cantrell. She sugested using a special toy for teaching a dog to go out. The toy is only used for potty time.This way the dog learns to bring you this toy when he has to go out.I have never tried this but it sounds like it might work. |
| Big Ben sits by the door to go out and waits in silence as well. I'm glad the scratching issue is on the outside of the door! If Ben has to wait too long for us to notice him sitting at the back door he'll take a stroll around the family room or kitchen and the head right back to the door - he's wanting to catch our eye! I really think this is what made potty training so difficult for all of us, when you don't have a signal it's "time to go" the result isn't pretty! With the way our current house is configured it has made a world of difference....you can see him waiting from several rooms. |
| With it raining off and on, Abbi has been reluctant to go out without me. I just tried to get her to bark and go out, and she would have nothing to do with it. She hid under the table and gave me this pitiful look of hers.
I walked her this morning. I will walk her again. It is good for me to walk, but I wish she would just learn to go out, do her pottying, and come back. Every once in a while it works out. I have an 8 year old who "forgets" to flush constantly. I keep wondering if this is a universal issue. The pottying habits of our young and pets! I have put up signs for the 8 year old. She loves them and it has made a difference. But Abbi, I don't know. I am usually a real innovative trainer, but getting her to pick up a toy to go potty on cue? She does pick up toys and head for the door when she wants to play, maybe there is some way to work it in? It's still a visual signal though. I would rather she gave a little bark or something. If I am upstairs she puts her head in my lap to get me to let her out. Why cann't she do that when I am downstairs? |
agingright wrote: I was told to put a bell by the door and teach them to ring the bell with peanutbutter and praise and constant watching and prodding.
Persistence will win the day. Guess I should follow my own advice! Better go make her speak to go out. I read that too... Maybe it will work for the Door Scratching. Shanti barks when he wants to come in, but not for potty... and also, he won't go out to the back patio without me... |
Pisco goes to the back patio by himself....if he sees me, he looks at me for a long time and then goes outside always looking at me ...even in full action. 
but usually he goes by himself Vero. |
| Too funny about the telepathy thing!!! Our Bassett is strange that way. Whether it is water she wants, going outside or just wanting me to follow her.... she stares at me so intently, like she is sending me a message through brain waves!! The only time she barks is when playing with Pithy, and the only time she wines is to get on the bed with us!!!
Amanda |
Pithy wrote: Too funny about the telepathy thing!!! Our Bassett is strange that way. Whether it is water she wants, going outside or just wanting me to follow her.... she stares at me so intently, like she is sending me a message through brain waves!! Amanda
Shanti does the same but with his ball. When he wants to play just stares at his ball.  And he can do that for 15 min...
That when he wants "something" from the ball, but when he wants something from me, sometimes he place his head on my lap staring at me... |
Quote: Too funny about the telepathy thing!!! Our Bassett is strange that way. Whether it is water she wants, going outside or just wanting me to follow her.... she stares at me so intently, like she is sending me a message through brain waves!! The only time she barks is when playing with Pithy, and the only time she wines is to get on the bed with us!!!
Amanda, my sister has basset hounds and the other night her younger one, Mos, i wanted to get on the couch - but it was already occupied by my sister and her other basset. So Mosi went over to the TV Cabinet - and shut the door - so when my sister got up to re-open it - he jumped in her spot! They are smarter than they look! 
Kristen |
| Kristin,
Thanks for sharing that story!! It is too funny, and too true! Sometimes I think the problem with my bassett is that she is TOO smart!! They definitely can reason beyond the realm of other dogs. When Pithy, my OES, has a bone and Opine, my Bassett, wants that bone.... she will go to the door and pretend she wants to go outside, when I let her out, naturally Pithy follows, and before Pithy gets the chance, Opine turns around, runs upstairs and grabs the bone!!! It is good to know that this is common among Bassetts!
Amanda |
| My dog is a female Springer Spaniel, she is 11 now, we have never had any trouble from her, she never barked until recently and that is when she has been alone all day, and has got exited from us being home, she has quite a large dog shed insulated outside, she had a large area to play and roam around all day when we are at work, luckily I work from home quiet alot so I call home at dinner and am with her, but she had started doing pecular things like, at night she never wanted to sleep at night, never wanted to go out to pee if it was raining but would jump up and down if you got out her lead. With the weather when it rains and I am at work all day, she has stood iin it all day and is ringing when we get home?? Anyway, sometimes when we turn tv off, she will either go straight to the back door to go out and wont come back in just goes to her shed, or more often now, she wont move off the floor, we have to drag her to get her to the kitchen to her bed, my husband has also had to carry her to the kitchen on a few occasions she just looks at you or she tries to get underneath the sofa... I dont want her to sleep upstairs on the landing as she will ruin the carpet.. When we put her in the kitchen, we can get around 3 hours sleep then, she scratches the door, we come down let her out she goes the toilet comes back in, then an hour later same thing happens??? We have now started to leave the door open and put an obsticle in way of the stairs, but we have wooden floor and we can hear her walking round during the night, then she has managed to jump the obsticle, she is a very good dog normally, I am hoping it just old age... oh and the digging, she has dug to holes in the garden like the size of her body, which I presume she must lie in when we are not in,, someone has told me that she is preparing for when she dies.. how upsetting is that..? |
YES - there is a new product out that prevents dogs from scratching on doors. It works on either side of the door and is easy to install and remove. We love ours... Check out http://www.TheClawGuard.com on ebay and amazon too.  |
| Thanks for posting that foster! Here's another idea, although I haven't done this myself for several years. When my previous girl, Shaggy, became aged and with old age affirmities...limited eyesight and deafness, she often searched for the door to go out. I hang a string with bells, from the curtain rod above our sliding glass doors, so that her body would rub against the bells and it was my signal she needed to go out. She could still hear that sound as well and would walk back and forth so she could jingle the bells. |
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