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(37,453 posts)rurallib
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(9,527 posts)Granted the dogs never tried to go through the glass, but they did try to go through the screen repeatedly.
Leith
(7,813 posts)That almost killed Della Reese.
Danascot
(4,694 posts)sliding glass doors (or any door with glass in it) should be made with safety glass, usually tempered glass. Tempered glass shatters into pebble-like fragments that are not very sharp. The glass in this clip looks like ordinary glass which shatters into long, thin knife-like fragments that can be extremely sharp. You can slow the clip down and see it more clearly. You can check your doors by looking for etched lettering in a corner that will identify it as safety glass. If it isn't there it's likely ordinary glass.
Here's a picture of shattered safety glass for comparison. You can see there are no long fragments.
True Dough
(17,321 posts)In a situation like this, you want to ensure the dog wasn't cut to pieces. That's a good thing!
In a case like the tempered glass in our patio table that a strong gust of wind overturned one night while we were upstairs in bed, it was a nightmare to clean up the thousands of tiny fragments of glass that were all over the deck floor, down between the floorboards and in the nearby grass! A little shard of tempered glass can still cut a bare foot (or a dog's paw) so it was painstaking to comb through the grass removing the damn stuff!