We use them to keep She-Ra out of the kitchen, where I'm cooking and don't really need an assistant, and our one bathroom which has no door, where there are medicines and chokable items.
Other than that she's got the run of the house.
I never use babygates, but I do block the door to the living room (only room with carpet) during house breaking.
When I first got EL D he had a reputation so I confined him to one room at a time until he could be trusted. The only place now where I use a baby gate is the guest bedroom. However, I found one that has translucent plexiglass instead of the wood or plastic crossbars. He would either climb over or chew through the regular kind. He can't really see through the plexiglass so it's just like a wall to him.
We did not use one until we got the puppy. We gradually allowed her more access as she got better at potty training, but still put one up at the bottom of the stairs when it rains because occaisionally all 3 will sneak up and leave us a little present if we are not watchign them constantly.
We thought we didn't need gates until we came home one day to find the sofa arm shredded to bits! Random act of boredom, but I can't trust them any more alone with the furniture when we aren't home (and by trust, I mean can't afford new furniture!:o ). However, since Sophie can easily jump one gate we have to stack two, one on top of the other! Whew! Nobody ever said having a basenji isn't hard work;) .
I have a baby gate on hand but only use it if a foster B is having adjustment issues.
One shelter pull guy I had for a little bit would not tolerate my boys but was okay with Ellie. I put my three on one side of the gate and went into my room to spend one-on-one time with the foster. Well, not for long. :rolleyes: Her Imperial Highness crawled her sweet chubbiness right over that gate to be with me and dispense occassional attitude adjustments to the foster. Turns out this allegedly neutered boy was not neutered at all. After his tidbits were removed, he went on to live in a multiple B home without incident.
After his tidbits were removed, ā¦....
I like that delicate phrase! I'm going to have to adopt it. LOL
Pat
we only use them when its wet out so they dont get the carpet dirty thats all i dont use them anywhere else they have full roam to my houseā¦.but since having b's i have become a very very clean and tidy person...lol...im sure everyone can relate.
Oh, yes. Clean and tidy-never leave anything down, around, out or about. I have baby gates to let people come into the house without getting bombarded-but Sugar will jump over in one graceful move.
I love baby gates..we have an old 70's style house, with little box rooms..
The gates work perfectly if we need to keep dogs from "things" we are doing.
They don't seem to mind it as they can see and smell what is going on in the other room.
I do have one that blocks the hallway to the spare bedrooms (the master bed and a room she has access to is on another side of the house), my parents stay with us in the winter and they are notorious to leave stuff lying around such as sunglasses, purses, shoes, etc the more expensive they are the more Mia thinks they are delicious, she has expensive taste lol. So I found it easier to use the gate to protect those rooms than to make sure they pick up after themselves lol.
we had one when we only had rocky.. and it blocked the steps going upstairs because the couple that lives with us has the two upstairs bedrooms (we have the 2 bedrooms downstairs to ourselves) but when we got the puppy we got an additional one that would block off the kitchen and the living room. It is propped open all day. I close it at night so i know that they aren't in the living room pottying or tearing things up. when we first got Mia she was so tiny she squeezed through the bars.. thank goodness shes fattened up ! lol
We have had success with baby gates. I was shocked that Dash didn't try to jump it. Until I walked over it. He cleared it in a second and was right by my side. I kind of stopped and was surprised but he looked so cute and just kind of looked at me like.."but mom, someone is at the door, I can't let you go alone, it could be a bad person or a giant piece of cheeseā¦"
"but mom, someone is at the door, I can't let you go alone, it could be a bad person or a giant piece of cheeseā¦"
hahahahahahhaa:D
lmao Dash that was hilarious! and it's totally what they are thinking lol
My brother used to use the typical lattice style at his house but the first time I brought EL D over he cleared it in a single hop! I use one for the guest bedroom but it has plexicglass instead of wood or plastic.
thats the kind we have.. a white and a black. they are extra tall so its hard for them to jump.
After his tidbits were removed, he went on to live in a multiple B home without incident.
In China they call it having their peaches picked. The last time I arranged this procedure for someone several years ago the vet had the woman hold the dog on her lap while he did the procedure!! Good thing it was a small dogā¦...
but mom, someone is at the door, I can't let you go alone, it could be a bad person or a giant piece of cheeseā¦"
HAHAHAHAHA. Okay my coworker just looked at me like I am crazy because I was laughing out loud :p Too funny!
We dont' have any baby gates for Dallas but we live in an apartment where the bedroom doors remain shut & the rest is so open that there is no where a baby gate could even go if we wanted one!
Check out these gates, hoo boy ā¦
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