Murphsmom wrote:
Sounds like training the dog to wait for you would be the cheapest (and safest) solution. It's a dominance thing. She thinks she's the leader of your pack. The only drawback we found when we trained Ollie about who gets to go out the door first (or in) is that now he won't go out unless we go out first. LOL! It only took about three days after we adopted him for him to get the idea.
She's eight months old and the dog walks with me in Homedepot without a leash, always on my right side and never even sniffs anyone in the store unless I tell her it's ok.
I just want to prevent any injury. Kind of like putting those plastic things in your outlets so your kid doesn't stick a fork in there. You can train the kid not to but when your not looking,,, who knows. The door could even blow closed on her as she jumped up.