Door Closing

[daffy-dill]

Can anyone suggest how I train my border collie to close doors? She wanders round the house opening every door but despite my efforts will not push them shut again. My house is freezing!

[Buenchico]

Well it's certainly possible ;-)

[Buenchico]

Collies can do it too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk9P6Vf4VRM

[Baldric]

Surely if your house is insulated internal doors won't make a lot of difference?

[Svejk]

^Would that work with teenagers?

[Buenchico]

It's easy to get a teenager to close doors, Svejk. You simply need to deliver a lecture to them about the importance of leaving them open ;-)

[Jackdaw33]

Just as an aside, Chico, I have noticed that with certain YouTube postings I can get sound but no picture. Your two clips: the first was sound only but the other had picture as well. Just wondering what it might be.

[daffy-dill]

Well Baldric, I live in a beautiful Victorian house, unfortunately insulation was not a priority back then.

[Buenchico]

^^^ Sorry, JD33, nothing immediately comes to mind. I've checked the file formats for those two videos and they're both .mkv. I believe that they should play using HTML5 (instead of Flash Player), so it seems possible that your browser isn't handling HTML5 properly. (Oddly though, if I play the first video above I don't see a 'pause' button but I do with the second one. The first link was posted in the main text box but the second one was posted into the dedicated 'Youtube' box. Perhaps it's a problem with the way that AB's server embeds files???)

[ummmm]

I could open the first one but not the second. I'm on the kindle.

[Jackdaw33]

I'm on a new laptop. Was OK at first but recently certain clips are sound only yet others are sound and picture. As I am no techie I am confused.

[Canary42]

Both vids work for me with sound and picture and functioning pause button.

Apple iMac, OSX, Safari.

[Old_Geezer]

I've occasionally had that Jackdaw. Always assumed the PC was having issues. Driver/resource/whatever. The above played fine on my Android phone though.

[Gizmonster]

We've got a similar problem, but with a slight difference:
We've got 2 Yorkies that go out in the garden as and when they need to, as they use a cat flap in the back door. The only problem is, we have to leave the conservatory door ajar, so they can go through the conservatory door to access the cat flap in the back door. When they come back in they have a nasty habit of leaving the conservatory door open - only problem is, it needs to be pulled shut - I wonder if you could train your dog to pull a door shut ??
Our house is quite nice and warm, but the conservatory isn't used much during winter as it's freakin' freezing ..... I always know when one of the dogs has been out as I can feel the cold air coming in ....