"benick" wrote in news:Wu-dnetQMoDOr_zXnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@neonova.net:
My dog came and told me she wanted to go out. She'd just come over and stare at me and I knew what she wanted. Of course, I'd ask, "do you want to go out?". If she ran to the back door, that was my answer and I let her out. Sometimes if I slept late, she'd come over and stare at me until I woke up.
On a few occasions I didn't want her running outside, such as when some jerk came to the door. She was very pretty and didn't scare people in person. But she had a big boy-dog bark that sounded ferocious. She'd run to the door and scare the heck out of people on the other side.
IMHO the doggie doors are a PIA.