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Would you let a neighbor hook on to your fence? Dogs.
It's legal here. My only possible objection is that their pitbull is "vocal" and I reeeally don't want our dogs barking at each other through the slats. In my mind, the extra layer of fencing will cut down on that. Yes/no? Then again, our dogs live with DH and they only visit here occasionally.
I'm also not sure how much I care since we're moving next spring and they're finishing undergrad (his mom came over to ask lol), so surely they'll be moving and taking their pitbull with them soon too. We're keeping the house after we leave as a vacation house.
Re: Would you let a neighbor hook on to your fence? Dogs.
Our neighbor let us hook onto their fence. We got a matching fence done by the same installer, and I think it looks better than any other option. We could've chosen to do our own separate fence, but why create a maintenance problem of maintaining (mowing?) a narrow stripe between the fences. A few houses in our neighborhood have the stripe and I think it looks funny.
Our dog is totally not a barker. Our neighbor's dogs (a bulldog and a german shepherd) are barkers, and bark at Doggie D whenever he's out there. Extra space between the fences would not deter the barking set. The only thing that would, would be if we'd put a privacy fence instead of picket, so they couldn't see each other.
Long story short, I wouldn't do parallel fences in your circumstances. It doesn't sound like your dogs (or their dogs) will be there long/often enough for it to be a major issue, and it's cheaper to install and easier to maintain if you don't do parallel fences.
I've never lived anywhere where the fences were NOT all connected, so I have a hard time imagining what it would be like to have 2 layers of fencing like that.
I don't think the extra fencing would cut down on the dogs barking at each other, either. Unfortunately I don't know of anything that will stop them barking at each other, short of training your dogs not to respond, which is probably more trouble than it's worth.
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Probably so. It'd be a pain for us to maintain inbetween (and I know that most of my current neighbors do the bare minimum to maintain yards -- they rent so they don't give two sh!ts about the yard).
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Exactly. I didn't even realize people did two layers of fence. I don't think that would be up to code around here.
And take it from someone who thought a new fence would help the dogs get along...it doesn't. It didn't do a.damn.thing.
IKR? It must be why there are so few fences in America. Who'd want to foot 100% of the bill for a fence that your neighbour will also benefit from, and have to have it on your land, not the property line, and have to have the ugly side facing you the whole way around.
Around here it is always just one fence dividing two properties so I'm having a hard time imagining having back to back fences. Both our current and our past house were fenced in, and we just shared any maintenance that needed to be done.
I also am not sure having a double fence would minimize barking unless you had a decent space between the two. Hopefully the dogs would get used to each other and the barking would be minimal after awhile?
Shared fences are pretty uncommon here, so I guess I've confused you all
Yes, there'd be a strip of land. We chose not to hook onto our neighbor's fence when we built ours. There's about a 3' gap and nothing grows there because of the shade cast by two 6' tall privacy fences. Even if it did, the community has professional lawn care and they're responsible for weed whacking anything that pops up. We back to the woodline, so they don't have to get their mowers to the back, so it's no inconvenience to them.
The more I think about it, the more hesitant I am because of the dog's aggressiveness. I have no doubt she'd stand up and put her full weight on the fence all the time...and if our dogs are out there (and I let my cat out back there all the time), she might throw herself against it. I paid for $50/gal SW stain on the fence too, I don't want her scratching at the boards. Since we won't be here, I won't be able to see that the fence is being taken care of. I think it's better for our investment to not let them hook on.
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My parents and their neighbors had two fence lines like what you're describing and it did absolutely nothing to stop the barking between the dogs. Some dogs bark, some don't. An attentive owner will go farther than adding a fence line IMO.
What makes you think the dog is aggressive?
Yes, but only because my BIL has the fence to fence look and the grass in between is all funky.
Barking dogs unfortunately are not deterred by fences. We have a similar problem with our neighbor's dogs and our dog and it doesn't matter, they're just poorly trained outside dogs who bark at everything.
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