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Chose this gate because we have a yellow lab and we want to make sure that he cannot access some areas of the house.

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We got this to block off part of the downstairs from dogs, so the extra tall gate is great. It is about an 8' opening so this was one of few products that would cover that much space. Even if there were other products I would buy this one. The entire gate is held well into the wall, which I was not expecting with the 8' space. Installation was also very easy, and it looks much better than the folding dog gate we had in place previously. Check out the dreambaby website they have a great calculator to show exactly which extensions you need to order for a given space.

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We had searched and searched for a solution for keeping our cats from coming upstairs. The pet gates we found were all designed for dogs and weren't tall enough for cats who like to jump. We were about to settle on a rather expensive solution that I wasn't totally happy with when I found this gate. I wasn't sure it was tall enough, or that the bars were close enough together to keep the cats from squeezing through, but we decided to give it a try. We are very happy we did. It is an attractive gate, easy to open and close (if installed properly), and our cats don't even think twice about jumping over it. They also can't squeeze through, and one of our cats is a runt and pretty thin. We are using both of the extensions that came with the gate. Just to be on the safe side, we built a wooden step the same height as the bottom step of our stairway (so basically, we are using the wooden step to extend our bottom step out twice its normal width), and we mounted this gate on top of the wooden step. That way, the gate is even taller on the side the cats are on, making it harder to jump, and we avoided installing the bottom of the gate on our baseboards, which we didn't want to damage. We haven't yet made the gate permanent by screwing in the four little mounting cups that hold the legs in place. We're waiting to see if it will stay well enough in place with just the tension against the wall. We periodically have to readjust the position of the gate, because as the door swings closed over and over again, the gate eventually gets jostled a little out of place. We're waiting to see if this is a big enough problem to be worth putting four permanent holes in our wall. So far it hasn't been a big deal, but we've only had it up for a week (and had to re-adjust it twice).

update (5/13/13): We started having a lot of trouble with the gate legs not staying in place, so we bit the bullet and screwed the mounting cups into the walls, and now the gate is held firmly in place. Still very happy with it.

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This gate is great. It is sturdy and good looking too. I have 4 dogs ranging in size from 70 pounds down to a 5 pound yorkie. The bars are close enough to keep the little guy in (approx. 2.5 inch space). I got the extra tall so the bigger dog could not jump over as she has done in the past with the shorter gates. This gate is working out great and was not difficult to install.

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I got the extra tall thinking my dogs wouldn't jump it but I was wrong. So it can only provide discouragement from other rooms but if you have jumpers they can get over it if motivated. I will say the are very sturdy and tolerate with them standing up with paws on top without budging. It will work top keep them from going upstairs to bother the cats because they would have to jump over it from the stairs to a short landing.