Your Dog Deserves a Door All His Own
We're like a lot of pet owners: our dogs pretty much run our lives. You can tell it as soon as we move into your neighborhood, 'cause the first two things we do are put up a fence so the dogs stay safe in their yard, and then give them a doggy door so they can come inside when it's too hot, cold, windy, or wet outdoors. No kidding: those pooches are pampered. When we moved into the great (formerly) white elephant on the edge of the prairie, I had to install two doors: one was an aluminum-frame model through the steel door into the barn, the second was through the solid-core door leading into the basement from the back yard. That second one was an off-brand from Home Depot with a fiberboard flap cover and cheap plastic "screws." It lasted less than two years before our blonde Lab pulled the flaps out of the frame.