Q: Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?
A: A person lacking a handful of treats.
This is the new dog door my husband installed last night after I cried (a lot) about how broken the patio door had become (note the duct tape). At first our big fat chocolate lab was skeptical, her being big and fat and the door seeming ever so much less so. All it took was for me to fling a handful of treats through the door into the back yard. Problem solved. At least until the extra diet of treats widens her girth beyond the door's dimensions. It's rated for 100 pounds, so I figure we have a ten pound margin before we need to develop a new plan. My husband weighed her yesterday (yes, he can actually lift her into his arms like a baby and step on the bathroom scale. He is a stud.).
And so the patio door is retired as a form of human egress. I should feel sentimental, but after lifting it with both hands (not like a baby) for the past few years to get it to open, I feel only relief. And besides, I can go through the new door in my bedroom and my son can scamper though the dog door any time. He has more poundage leeway than the chocolate and is infinitely more agile. He doesn't even need the lure of a handful of treats.
A: A person lacking a handful of treats.
This is the new dog door my husband installed last night after I cried (a lot) about how broken the patio door had become (note the duct tape). At first our big fat chocolate lab was skeptical, her being big and fat and the door seeming ever so much less so. All it took was for me to fling a handful of treats through the door into the back yard. Problem solved. At least until the extra diet of treats widens her girth beyond the door's dimensions. It's rated for 100 pounds, so I figure we have a ten pound margin before we need to develop a new plan. My husband weighed her yesterday (yes, he can actually lift her into his arms like a baby and step on the bathroom scale. He is a stud.).
And so the patio door is retired as a form of human egress. I should feel sentimental, but after lifting it with both hands (not like a baby) for the past few years to get it to open, I feel only relief. And besides, I can go through the new door in my bedroom and my son can scamper though the dog door any time. He has more poundage leeway than the chocolate and is infinitely more agile. He doesn't even need the lure of a handful of treats.
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