99% of having a dog is spent saying no you were just outside.

[Duncanpup]

Then you open the door and let them out again.

[MiHale]

1. Or....no, you just ate...

Sometimes same result

[2naSalit]

2. They only came in to see...

If you were going to join them outside!

[Irish_Dem]

3. Or NO it is not time your dinner now.

You have to wait.
But you feed them anyway.

[WestMichRad]

4. With our cat, too

If a door is being opened, he wants to pass thru it. Even if he was just out there 30 seconds ago.

It makes entertaining something as mundane as bringing in the groceries!

[joetubes]

5. Dog door

But in a dog door!

[MurrayDelph]

9. Do you mean

a dog, rat, and raccoon door?

[ChazInAz]

6. I have three cats.

Ulthar Ynxpaht, Miss Katonic Neferkiti and The Grey Mouser, all littermates, the former two black and the latter a floofmonster grey tabby. I go through this all day, with Ulthar being the ringmaster, deciding that he wants treats and the others following along.

[Clouds Passing]

7. Dog doors are lifesavers 😀

[OldBaldy1701E]

8. But, I will not let them back in until dinner time.

Hey, you wanted out again, now you can stay there.

(They did not care, they preferred to be outside anyway.)

Gods, I miss them both so much every day.

https://i.postimg.cc/25yChPLL/temp-Image-Pry-Vu-E.avif

[Duncanpup]

10. ❤️

[MurrayDelph]

11. I tried that,

but then I remembered the consequences of not letting them out

One of my dogs is a mostly-blind, mostly-deaf, mostly-incontinent 14-year-old dachshund who has Cushing's Disease. Any morning I didn't wake up to carpet bombs is a win.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Not Here

I don't just let Vincent out. I go with him.
So, no means no unless I'm sure he actually needs to do something.
Besides, he gets to run at the dog park once or twice a day, so it's not like he's stuck in the house all the time.

[UTUSN]

13. That, and these other profundities (just about my only deep conversations) :

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* Wanna go outside?

* I don't *want* to get up, let me sleep!

* You need a bath

* Yes, we're going in the car - (all heck breaks loose)

* Buh-bye! I'm going bye-bye! - (when he can't go, immediate depression and walking away)

* Truck! - (mail carrier or recycling)

* Why didn't you drink when I was gone? - (When I've dumped the water dish coming back to the car in 5 minutes, him licking the empty dish)

* You didn't have to get up. - (him following me to the loo)

* What, I don't know what you want. - (Staring at me)

* You gotta *wait*!