To Christine Code: WHAT A GREAT IDEA!!!! This sounds like the most inexpensive yet sure-to- work way to keep them from hopping over!!! For YEARS I've been wrestling with how to keep them from hopping over the baby gate - inexpensively, that is. I plan to try this today and will let you know the outcome. (See, you *can* teach an ol' dog new tricks!) Debbie Riccio [Posted in FML issue 1467]