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Dangers of the Doggie Door

By Ellen and Rachel on May 20, 2009

doggie-door-freinds-986Have a doggie-door? Well, please watch out. If it’s big enough for your Golden Retriever to crawl through, it’s big enough for your two or three year old to navigate through as well. Close to 100 children have died as a result of leaving the house through these openings without their parents knowledge. And if you have a swimming pool, it’s even riskier. So please, either get rid of it, or be extremely careful.

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Ellen and Rachel are two old friends and “expert” mamas—one a pediatrician and one a family therapist—with fifty years of parenting experience between them.

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