The first thing you need to know about door dashing is that the dog probably needs exercise and that’s why they run outside in the first place.
The second thing you need to know is if you punish them for coming back to you when they finally do, they’re going to be more and more reluctant to come back.
Door dashing is scary because your dog can get hit in a split second. It is a behavior that needs to be stopped immediately. Immediately. Because any one time it happens, it could be the end of your dog and then you’ll be sad and insist that the dog shouldn’t have ran out when you just didn’t take the time to fix the situation. Dogs don’t know not to do things, but people do. And it’s a person’s job to teach the dog what it can and cannot do. I rarely give my dogs the opportunity to rush out before me, for one thing, and that is a pack behavior leader situation. They do not walk outside before I do, so there is no time for them to dash through the door. However, if you haven’t gotten your dog into the habit of waiting for you to walk outside first, or your dog is simply a puppy doing puppy things, you need to stop door dashing.
How do you stop it? Easy – teach them the “come” command.
First – do not use come if they do not know it. If you use it and they don’t know it, they won’t come and you are teaching your dog to simply ignore you.
Second – if you say come; they have no other option but to come. If you say it and they don’t come, then you are once again reinforcing the behavior of ignoring you.
Third – how to actually teach this command. It is best to get a long leash, 30 ft or so, and attach it to your dog’s collar. Start in your house before you move outside with this, but make it clear that if you say come, the dog is absolutely obligated to come. When you say it, give them a second to respond and then start reeling them in, still reward them as if they did it on their own.
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