baby gates
Alright everybody, we are in the market for two baby gates. We just moved in to the new place and realize it would be a lot safer to gate off certain areas while we are gone. The front door leads straight outside and we are about 1000yrds from the interstate. Just makes me too nervous to come home and see that Midas is ready to run out to us when we open the door. Yes, he does no the "wait" command and does fairly well at it. However, I have had a dog hit by a car before and lose her leg. I'm not willing to risk anything like that and hope all will be well. I like precautions, makes me feel more at ease. Anyhow, We found the cheapest gates we could find at Target and thought they would be great, they aren't. Ones too short, we need it to go up to atleast 48". The other Midas showed us that he could tear it down. Haha! So now we are returning those and need strong, sturdy, CHEAP baby gates. Has anybody had success with these things?
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Permalink Reply by Monica, Orion, and Laika on
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We recently got this gate, not exactly cheap, but it's marked down a lot on amazon. It has a pet door for cats to pass through but my pup fits through that too right now. We used to have this piece of junk plastic one that was a pain in the butt to use and always got knocked down so we found this on amazon to get it. We got this because my sister in law is pregnant and we don't want her hurdling over the gate and the door works well. We also have a wooden one so we can open the door to the room with our foster kittens so they can see us but not roam around the house very sturdy, works great, but its kind of annoying to put up and take down so you have to step over it and it's pretty much right at crotch level so that's... uncomfortable.
So that first one is a pretty good deal on amazon, it was easy to install, very sturdy, and the door is great so if you're okay with 38 bucks its pretty great and if you have the amazon premium or whatever it is, the shipping is free. If you're only gating off areas while you're gone and don't have to worry about hurdling over it, I don't see why you'd need a door so the wooden one at Target is good because you'll just take it down when you're home. We keep ours up constantly so the cats have an area free from the dogs so we needed one with a door for downstairs and keep the wooden one upstairs for the kittens.
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Pictures of our gates in action:
$25 wooden/wire Target gate locking up our kittens:
$37 metal gate with the door and cat door:
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Permalink Reply by Chris West on
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I love the cat door, that's awesome!
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Permalink Reply by Natalie, Lance &Tucker on
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I also vote for the metal walk through gate, we have one and I love it. However I didnt get ours for 37.00, it was almost 80.00!!! The one in the picture looks just like the one we have too!!
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Yeah, on amazon it's 70 but marked down to 37 or 38 so we got all excited and bought it because we had a cruddy plastic one that we had to step over and we didn't want my pregnant sister-in-law stepping over it for safety reasons and this was the cheapest one with a door we found.
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I think I need to order another one for that price!!
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Permalink Reply by Sam Tsang on
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metal gate is the way to go, I've lost 3 wooden baby gates to Miss Vienna during her teething stage :(
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True, Orion chews on the wooden part of our Target wooden/wire gate when he wants to go see the kittens and he's not even teething yet
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Permalink Reply by Karen Dadisman on
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We got really lucky with Rosie and Rocky and gates. We had the gates just leaning across the doors and one fell when one of the dogs bumped it. They were so scared, they've never bothered a gate again. We just prop them across the doors and they stay far away. Rocky won't even come close for a treat!!
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Permalink Reply by Wally, Jessica, and Olive on
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haha, we use the ironing board! We just lay it sideways, and Olive won't go near it. Something about that shriek when it opens when we need to use it for what it's actually for, lol... good thing I didn't fix the noise when the wife asked me too!
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