<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><DIV>I never had 5 droolers guarding the dog door but Tucker (ATB) Ruby Doo and Abby Gale </DIV>
<DIV>use to do this constantly. Tucker would actually lay with his head on the floor or would </DIV>
<DIV>block the door from the outside. Poor Sadie Maye took the brunt of the "punishment" </DIV>
<DIV>and was afraid to go in or out. Commands fell on deaf ears as this became a game.</DIV>
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<DIV>My solution was two fold. Since the door is under a window, I put Cuddles cage table there. </DIV>
<DIV>It backed them up 2 1/2 ft giving the one coming through the door room to escape back out.</DIV>
<DIV>Then for a while I would go out with Sadie and because their door is double flapped and a x-large door, </DIV>
<DIV>I would be the one that pushed the flaps from the side. If someone charged through the door </DIV>
<DIV>I sprayed them with my the Mega pump action water gun. If they didn't charge and played </DIV>
<DIV>the "let's wait until the head appears" I would get down and come through the door. </DIV>
<DIV>Imagine the suprise when they were running full tilt to toward the door lipper flaps up, menacing stare </DIV>
<DIV>and the grrrrrrrr and meeting Rambo mom protecting the baby with the water gun blasting. </DIV>
<DIV>After about a week, though started to change their attitude and stopped guarding the door, if I </DIV>
<DIV>heard them start I just yelled "I'm gonna get the squirt gun!" Everyone backed off and knew I meant </DIV>
<DIV>business. Eventually they just stopped caring who was going in our out.</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><U>Ratings by this MomSlave</U></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><U>Cons:</U></STRONG> Mom had to crawl through the dog door. I had to clean up the mess afterwards. Placed on "bad slave" list. Pouting kidz.</DIV>
<DIV><U><STRONG>Pros:</STRONG></U> They learned to quit guarding. Sadie could come in the house without being pounded on.</DIV>
<DIV>Kitchen floor was cleaned more frequently.</DIV>
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<DIV>Drools to all in need,</DIV>
<DIV>Karen and The Dog House Gang (We showed her. If we needin to pound on sumbody we juss wate in da</DIV>
<DIV>libbing rum now.bwahahahaha)</DIV>
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