Baby gates-- regular or tall?

[Discussing Labradoodles & Goldendoodles]

We're bringing home our new 5mo Monday :) She is 30 lbs now and is a small standard. I'm getting a couple baby gates to block off parts of the house we aren't able to supervise her in... will regular height ones be big enough or will just just climb/jump over?

[Christy&Riley]

I've seen many people on DK say their puppies have free roam well before a year old. It took us longer to feel confident. Riley will be a year old this Sunday and she roams at night and when we are home. I'm confident she'll circle at the door if she needs to go out. We still crate when gone as I'm not quite sure what she might do knowing we aren't home. To offset the guilt of crating her while at work, and not knowing how big she would be, we bought an extra large crate. She has room to stand, stretch out and her toys are at the other end. Kind if like a studio apt. :-) Crate is also helpful when guests arrive. She is so overly excited to see people so this helps her calm down before licking them to death. I envy the DKers that have doodles who have good manners when guests arrive. I still have hope...

[Lori, Quincy & Frankie]

what I recall is that my very calm Quincy (hmmm) got nuts when the repair man was upstairs fixing whatever, and Quincy was downstairs with just the "normal size" fence blocking off the stairs to the upstairs repair person.  You could have knocked me over with a feather when I saw him leap, again with no "lead time" right over the gate and fly up the stairs to see what the repair guy was doing ....there was no stopping him.....My very calm, very nice. very obedient ALD until there was a stranger in the house that he wanted to be next to!!!! 

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

I don't think you'd be sorry if you get talk ones but shorter ones might be useless if he's a jumper, which I think they can be if they put their minds to it!

[Kyoko]

I think it depends on the dogs.... Charlie girl is a standard labradoodle, 45 lb. She has done very well in agility so she can jump. But never ever jumped over the baby gate. ( regular height ) My standard poodle does not jump the gate either ( 50 Lb) I never taught them anything special for this. They just don't jump the gate. But if you are worried, I would go with the tall one just in case....

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Most likely she will learn to honor the barriers you put up, but I would go for the higher ones if you haven't purchased yet.  Our anxious dog will actually push large pieces of furniture out of the way if he MUST get to the door to greet us, but for the most part all of our dogs honor the typical baby gate height barriers.  My daughter's dogs who are not used to barriers do not honor anything we use, and one of them is only 12 pounds!

[Marie and Hoka]

I concur that go for the taller, if it does not inconvenience you too much. I also suggest the kind with the vertical bars. Hoka can "climb" a standard gate with the crisscross pattern bars. I still prefer to step over the gate, rather than open and close it, so I keep it to the 30 inch height.
All of gem are different. The foster pup we had could jump anything, up to over 4 ft!
Our late Tinker was super tall, but wouldn't go over a gate that was a foot tall! What a good boy he was!

[Pat and Traveler]

I think it depends on the dog--helpful, huh?  :)   Trav is a medium labradoodle, and has always been very conscious of barriers.  If a barrier comes up to his chest, he won't try to get over it.  He could easily jump over it, as he can jump up onto the bed and such, but he just doesn't try.  Maybe if a squirrel ran across the room, he'd change his mind.  lol

[Jennifer & Truffle]

Not sure how this pricing stacks up against other Web sites, but here is a link to sale Doggyloot is running on Carlson extra-tall gates (I think it's one of the brands our breeder had recommended).  $55 instead of $88.

https://doggyloot.com/deals/9466-55-dollars-for-one-carlson-extra-t...

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

I agree with taller gates....one of my guys is quite a jumper.  Interestingly enough now that he's older he has stopped trying to get over the gates....but he used to enjoy "gate jumping".

[Sally S Miles]

Tall gates - no temptation to get over them, it also hinders the desire for others to lean over and reach into an area for petting. Kids can't reach over a tall gate.