French doors and dog-proofing!

GhostDog_2

Has anyone got any good ideas how we could prevent our mad dog (!!) coming into the lounge when the patio doors are open and we're not there to say "No" :mad: He is welcome to come in when we're around but he is a leg-cocker and chewer!!!! :rolleyes:

The doors open outwards.
It needs to be a firm barrier that he won't chew through or knock over.:rolleyes:

Ideally it'd be lightweight and easy to put to one side if we didn't want to use it.

I had thought maybe a large kid's fireguard.....can anyone suggest anything better and please tell me how to find it?

kethry

you don't say how wide your french doors are but i wonder if you could get a kids stairgate to fit? we've often wondered about getting one for our back door for the times when we want the door open (hot weather) but don't want the dog in the garden (its wet underfoot - and we have laminate flooring) - the rest of the time she's free to come and go as she wants.

maybe keeping an eye out on freecycle would be productive?

keth
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Debt_Free_Chick

A stair guard? Something like this? Depends on how big the dog is and whether s/he is able and likely to jump over it

kethry

was idly leafing through tesco direct's new mammoth catalogue tonight and saw this, thought of you. Its a bit expensive, but if you have a wide space to cover that normal stairgates won't stretch to.. then it might be the answer.

HTH

keth
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alanobrien

A folding / expandable fireguard is another option worth looking at.

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.200-0555.aspx
Note its the same price in Argos.

GhostDog_2

alanobrien wrote: »

A folding / expandable fireguard is another option worth looking at.

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.200-0555.aspx
Note its the same price in Argos.

Thanks Alan,
This seems to be the most economical option :beer:

Beamish

What about a clothes horse which opens out, we use ours to stop the dogs coming in when I've washed the kitchen floor!

Beem

oldMcDonald

On our backdoor, which is too wide for stairgates, I use the side of an old cot. It is easy to move when we want to shut the door and cost nothing (I actually grabbed it off a skip! (did ask first )

Other than that, a fireguard would seem like a good idea, however the one we used to use round the fire was a pain to unclip from the wall.

hollydays

This probably wont work for you,but it works for us (as our dog has short legs and is lazy)-we use an extending shower rail ie just an extending pole which locks into place.our dog doesnt try to limbo under it and is not athletic enough to bound over it.

LisaT186

Hope your dogs nothing like ours! We had a doggie gate (a child stair gate but a little higher from Argos) which she found a challenge to jump and unfortunately now usually manages on the first go. So then we had to start putting a normal child stair gate above that! One door two gates one above the other - and she tries to push it over / undo it!