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Default Doggie doors represent new opportunities

On Tue, 12 May 2009 13:37:02 -0700, Oren wrote:

On Tue, 12 May 2009 16:12:00 -0400, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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"HeyBub" wrote in message
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If your toddler crawls through it and drowns in an adjacent bog. You can
sue the manufacturer (or installer) of the doggie door for not warning
you.

"More than a hundred children have died or been seriously injured in the
last decade after squeezing through tiny pet doors and getting into
swimming pools or other dangerous places, new research has found. "

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Am...7561260&page=1




"a Florida lawyer suing a pet door manufacturer for the family of two-year
old Matthew Ranfone."

Say what? Where were the parents when their two-year old was doing all this?


Watching American Idol ?

Use an electronic collar if you have pets, children, pets doors and a
pool. They door will only open as the animal approaches.


That's not failsafe either. It won't take the kid that long to
realize he can follow the dog out.

It keeps raccoons, bob cats, stray opossums and the neighbor's cats
out of the feed bowl.


Video on ABC to night of burglars getting in through the doggy door.
Robbed the house 3 times until they set up a camera.