Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Locked Out
By the dog!!! Today was our day to pick up milk and when a member of our group arrived for her order, we went outside to help carry the cooler, to chat (me) and to play (the boys). We left Duke in the house, but when we turned to go in, the door was locked ...and it's NOT a self locking door- it's a dead bolt! We're not sure whether or not he turned the lock by jumping on it or with his mouth but it was like a scene from The Far Side. He's a sneaky one, he is! On occasion, when we are out in the garage, the door from the house mysteriously opens and a canine face peers through. Now, if we could only catch him in the act and capture it on camera, we could be on AFV or at least You Tube.
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Sounds like a case of generalized learning to me. If he can open the door between the house and garage, he has obviously figured out that turning a knob on a door gives him access to a place where the humans are, which is where he wants to be because that's where the action is, and who wants to be left out of the action, for Pete's (or, in this case, Duke's) sake.
Assuming that the deadbolt also has a knob, even one of a different shape, he probably decided that the fun place to be would be outside joining in the chat or playing with the boys. Solution: turn a knob! it'll get me where I'd rather be!
It is a knob and I think it happened exactly as you describe. Maybe he tried the doorknob, which is harder to turn than the one to the garage, and when that didn't work he managed to turn the deadbolt just enough to engage the lock. Still didn't work how he'd have liked it to- LOL!
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