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<blockquote data-quote="aco175" data-source="post: 9851592" data-attributes="member: 27385">My dog likes to scratch at the door when it sees the other neighbor's dog outside.&nbsp; If I get up to put on his leash he is going outside.&nbsp; Last week it was below 0 degrees and we had 2 feet of snow.&nbsp; It managed.&nbsp; I was more attentive to having the dog come back in though.&nbsp; First thing we did with the dog was keep it crated at night.&nbsp; It came from a rescue from the south somewhere so it had never been out of a crate.&nbsp; I did not want it in my room at night or in my bed so we keep up with the crating and now it just goes in the crate sometime around 7pm.&nbsp; The initial few accidents needed a collar drag over to the pile and stern talking to before dragging it to the door to make it go out.&nbsp; We also gave it a treat when it went out, but it learned to just go out and turn around to want to come back in at first.&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]428801[/ATTACH]I was going to post the one from Groucho Marx about outside a dog a book is man's best friend, inside a dog it is too dark to read.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aco175, post: 9851592, member: 27385"] My dog likes to scratch at the door when it sees the other neighbor's dog outside. If I get up to put on his leash he is going outside. Last week it was below 0 degrees and we had 2 feet of snow. It managed. I was more attentive to having the dog come back in though. First thing we did with the dog was keep it crated at night. It came from a rescue from the south somewhere so it had never been out of a crate. I did not want it in my room at night or in my bed so we keep up with the crating and now it just goes in the crate sometime around 7pm. The initial few accidents needed a collar drag over to the pile and stern talking to before dragging it to the door to make it go out. We also gave it a treat when it went out, but it learned to just go out and turn around to want to come back in at first. [ATTACH type="full" width="348px" size="500x672"]428801[/ATTACH] I was going to post the one from Groucho Marx about outside a dog a book is man's best friend, inside a dog it is too dark to read. [/QUOTE]

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