Time for my annual effort to communicate with the dogs:

[hedgehog]

"It's too cold outside for you to sit on the porch with the door to the house open."

This is a hard concept to get across. They can sit on the unheated covered porch, but they also want to have the door wide open while they do it. They can scratch the door open unless I use the dead bolt, and the dead bolt is a pain in the neck because we use that door a lot.

[hobbit709]

1. Dog door. That's what I use to keep the AC in during summer.

[hedgehog]

2. They have a door door to an attached shed which has a dog door

to an outside pen, but they want to sit out on the porch and bark at squirrels on the bird feeder! The door to the porch has a storm door, so i don't think a dog door is practical.

[Motown_Johnny]

3. move the bird feeder

and maybe they will lose interest in that spot

[hedgehog]

4. But then I can't watch the bird feeder ferom my work station!

[Motown_Johnny]

5. Then block the dog's line of sight to the bird feeder

If that is the reason they like to sit there, addressing the cause is the most direct way to deal with it.