John Popp
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With the advise of others here, and leash training Chongo it was suggested to never allow him to make passage to the great outdoors without being held. While he will certainly make all kinds of efforts to get through other doors with all his sneakiness, the only way he thinks he gets to the outside is under my arm and with a leash attached. He still sneaks his way into the basement when the door is open, but never to the exterior doors despite dragging me a leash suggesting he wants to go out.
First jaunts into the great outdoors are bound to be a little intimidating giving him a little bit of pause before wandering out, and by the time he really wants to be outside you've trained him to know that he gets outside only with a leash attached and being carried through the door. Obviously they're smart enough to know that all doors don't have the same things behind them, and just because they want to be sneaky around interior doors doesn't suggest they'll apply their same strategy to the exterior ones.
Not suggesting that the squirt bottle technique shouldn't be applied, just that you can have a two fronted plan on keeping him safe.
