So today I mowed my lawn for the very first time! It was fun- I did a good job and I mostly enjoyed it I left the dogs in the house while I mowed for safety reasons. You know whippets- they do not like to be on the other side of a door. They stared out at me through the sliding glass doors and threw temper tantrums. Lark licked the glass ??? Lex wailed. Riley threw himself at the door and howled. Grandpa watched in amusement. So I finished mowing and tried to go back in and.... the sliding glass door was locked. Riley must have pushed the lock down when he was jumping on the door

I had to go to my neighbors house- also tenants of my landlord - and ask them to call my landlord to come let me in. HOW EMBARRASSING!!! I tried to explain what happened but he did not seem amused. He actually looked at me like I was . I'm pretty sure he and the neighbors now have affirmed the fact that I am, indeed, the crazy dog lady next door

As soon as he let me back in ( after lecturing the whippets of course) I ran to home depot to have a set made to hide in the backyard shed.

Serves you right for locking everyone up inside!

I'm glad you were able to get back in your home without too much drama.

How embarressing!

Notice I am laughing though....glad it worked out okay. I have done things like that before so I know how you feel. But I have as yet to be locked out of the house by my PETS!

Well,I HAVE been locked out-by an Airedale! When I lived in Pa. my mother and I had gone to the pool,and Moe must have jumped on the screen door-we climbed in the window! Glad we were on the 1st floor! AND that the screens came out easily!

I locked myself out at night looking for a dog that someone else owned and had gotten free. I had to borrow a neighbors phone to call DH at work to come home and unlock the front door. Not only embarassing but he lost time from work.

I haven't been locked out by a dog, but at my previous apartment, I needed to swipe a fob key to get in and I would frequently run out the door without it (had to go down 5 floors to take Sigi out and you don't want to be too slow with a small puppy!). Unless I also remembered my cell phone or it was during business hours, I was locked out. The building management didn't even get around to putting our name on the buzzer list during the whole time we were there because you couldn't buzz people in and every time there was a power flicker, the list got wiped out anyhow. I had to either wait for my hubby to realize I had been gone too long or beg a complete stranger for the use of a phone or go into a local business to use the phone (this wasn't an option usually because everything closed at 6pm!)

Excuse me for laughing, but picturing the situation, it is kind of funny - you outside with the lawn mower, and your dogs inside looking out at you!

That was a good idea to have an extra key made and hide it somewhere on the property. It is no fun being locked out. I think we have all had that exasperating experience at one time or another.

That's funny. I'm sure at the time you were tired and felt silly asking your landlord to let you in to your house! But it's still funny.

When my Toby was a little puppy still he locked me out of my car!

I had the car warmed up so I took Toby out and put him in the car, but I still needed to scrape the ice off the car. While I was doing that he was hopping all over the place and locked me out! The house was already locked and my keys were in the car LoL! Luckily I had my cell phone in my pocket so I called my hubby and he was able to let me in. In the mean time Toby was freaking out and I was freezing!

All of your stories are cracking me up I LOVE them! Glad to know I'm not the only one

Did Riley look like this when you tried to get back in?