I'm going to be bringing my first dog home this week; it's something I've been looking forward to for a long time, but I decided to wait until I graduated and had my own income before doing so. My mom isn't the biggest fan of dogs, but we've hit a compromise regarding adoption--I'm getting a smaller dog than I originally planned to and have agreed to keep the dog outside of a sizeable portion of the house where we have new furniture (think half of the house is dog-free, half isn't), but I do get to bring a dog into her home.
I'd like to preface this next bit with the fact that I was completely ignorant and had no malicious intentions when I agreed to it. I suggested using dog gates initially, the house divides partitions cleanly with three barriers. My mom didn't want to have physical barriers change the aesthetics of the house and, more importantly, the thresholds we are planning on sectioning off are high traffic and having physical gates there would be cumbersome (ETA: we don't have doors in these thresholds that we can just keep shut either unfortunately). When she provided these counterpoints, I agreed in the moment to an electric fence as some of our friends used them successfully. While I'm not the biggest fan of the idea it was hypothetical when I agreed to it. My issue is that now the dog is real and the last thing I want to do is betray his trust, but if I turn around and say no I'm not going to use an electric fence everything could fall apart. Worst case scenario, I would have to surrender the dog back to the rescue or I would no longer be welcome home.
Does anyone have experience training dogs not to enter certain areas without the use of barriers, I've been reading up on leash training and it's definitely something I will try. I would rather have my dog on leash all the time inside than use fear and pain based training.
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