At the moment she stays inside alot due to the heat and she is black so she gets really hot. Also my mother has gotten trinity on a bad routine where she lets and wants to let trinity out just about every hour and then she gripps when trintiy uses the restroom in the house and shes not understanding what I was telling her. I keep telling my mother that if you keep letting trinity out that often she will think she will always be let out that often and will not learn to hold it. Also once I go away to job core from 8:30am to about 6pm there will be no one at the house so I figured it would be better to get a doggy door.

Yea thats what I was thinking but my mother is making it out to be this big problem and I didn't see the problem so I figured I would ask ya'll and if ya'll saw a problem.

Yea I have a backyard but like I said in my first post I can't leave her outside cause shes black and it gets hot here. I mean this is texas.

The kennels would be nice but we have no where to put them. I did try to talk my mother in to converting the garge into a giant kennl. Have chain link fence on the inside of the garge but still have it to where you can raise and lower the garge door. And just put trinity in there cause that way its really easy to clean up after her if she does have an accedent. Also other animals wouldn't come in. They don't even come into our yard because of trinity.

I was talking about this lastnight with michael..the only worry i had is that a burglar could climb through it as it would have to be one big doggy door. Also i feel alot happier knowing harvey is contained in a kennel .so if anyone came in the garden  i.e kids, etc then Harvey could have contact with them.. Harvey is 100% non-aggresive but its better for me to be safer than sorry. I could never see him hurt anyone . his bark is enough to put people off from entering but i always here these stories of perfectly pleasant family dogs mauling someone and i dont want to be part of that statistic just my opinion if it was me.

I thought about that but our garge is located on the front of our house so we would have to extend the fence in order to do that. And we defently don't have the moeny for that. If it was a wooden fence that would be easy but we have chain link fence so we would probably have to pay someone to come out and extend the yard for us. Most people don't even try to pet trinity. Every since we got her the kids from the junior high that is right up the street from me who use to walk through the ally to get home don't any more because they are scared of her. She hates strangers. She will not bite them but she will bark and growl and chase them so burglars aren't really a big deal to me. I did think about putting her in the crate that we got for her when I first got her but she has gotten so big that she doesn't fit in it anymore. I've looking for another crate but its hard to find one. When I first got trinity I went to every pet store in town looking for the biggest crate and when I found it I bought it. I told them what kind of dog I had and they said she would fit fine but shes gotten so big that when she is in it she can't raise her head, can't lay down, and can't turn around. Basicly she can't move. i have been thinking about maybe doing the doggy door and kennel think together. Such as maybe find a place either in the back yard or somewhere in the surrounding area around my house where I can put a doggy door but instead of it going into saw the back yard, have it lead into a kennel. Don't ya'll think that would work?

I don't have a privacy fence I said I had a chain link fence.

I actually hear what you are saying my little cousins crawled through my uncles cat door before it took us forever to find her. She followed the cat out. It actullay after we found her seemed kind of funny. LOL

I would love that type but we don't have a sliding glass door.