Mylo has been a little more daring, and a pain in the butt. He has been running out the front door when people come over to visit or the odd time when we come home or leave.
Before it wasnt too bad cause he would listen or at least not go further than two houses down but now he's bolting across the street and everything else. AUGGHHH.
So Ive resolved to fix this problem.
These are my ideas.
1) Put a gate on our stoop, or even just plywood so he would stay on the stoop and not go far if he did get out.
2) Put up a door to the basement and when people come over they use the side door. We'd close the door and keep Mylo from jumping on people until they are inside and he also cant escape.
3) Train him to sit when people come to the door and inside, he can move when given permission too.
Right now Im working on number 3. Training Mylo. Its going to take a bit. I bought a cheap mat from the dollar store where Im teaching him right now that its his "spot". We cant call it a mat because he knows the mat is the mat in the front hall and that when he comes from inside he sits on the mat and gets cleaned off, so we call it his "Spot".
Right now Im just getting him used to going to his Spot when he's told. Then we will gradually train him to go to his spot when people come and knock on our door. I will probably still put up a piece of plywood on our stoop so that as we are training him if he does get out he can only go on the stoop and then back in the house.
Lets hope the training goes well. He is way too crazy when people come over that it will be a lot of training and practicing.
