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One of the most important factors in positive training, is to be able use good management technques, and this can be especially true with a puppy, or a difficult older dog. Safety gates can contain dogs without isolating them from the family group, or from other pets in the household. Dogs who are safety contained do not get to practise the very things that we don't want them to. Dogs who chase the family cat, or who jump up visitors are at least prevented from practising their techniques, whilst behaviour modification takes place. As we know, training and behaviour modification takes time and it takes much practise. Don't let your dog practise his own techniques in the meantime!
- Safety gates can help with the following:
- Controlling an untrained dogs who may be destructive or not housetrained.
- Control when you have more than one dog, or when you are introducing a new dog or puppy to the house. Dogs can interact with, and generally habituate to the presence and scent of a new dog.
- Controlling interactions between dogs and cats, giving the cat an escape route.
- Control between children and dogs. The gate helps prevent children over exciting a dog and prevents too much attention being paid to the dog. This in turn gives the dog an escape route from the children.
- Control when visitors call, without isolating the dog from visitors.
- Safely contains a dog when you are unable to supervise or when you are busy cooking a meal or doing anything when it's difficult to have your dog underfoot.
- A helpful addition to a crate, providing security and safety.
- Containment of a dog without closing the door on him, enabling him to be "in contact" with the rest of the family whilst you can observe his activities.
- Helps prevent an untrained dog from escaping from the house, getting lost, or causing an accident. This is particularly useful when there are children in a busy household who may not be vigilant regarding the dog's security.
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