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Remember when my dogs ran away for a little bit?
Original post here.
Well, we figured out how they got out. THEY'RE CLIMBING THE FENCE. WTF?!
We were outside last night hanging out, and I look over, and see Muprhy climbing the freaking fence! And i'm like "OMG WTF?!?!" and the closer he got to the top, the more he weighted it down so Parker could jump over it. Freaking animals!
Re: Remember when my dogs ran away for a little bit?
Ugh. That sucks. How in the world can you possibly combat that other than being outside with them all the time?
Back in my single days I had a shih tzu and I used to keep him gated in the kitchen by two baby gates. He was afraid of thunder and lightning and I came home several times to find him in the kitchen sink, or sometimes hiding under my bed. I had no idea how he was doing it. One night, during an especially bad thunderstorm, I watched him run across the kitchen floor and literally launch himself off the ground and into the sink, then he pawed at the kitchen window and tried to get out.
Another time I found him in the bathroom sink and he had pawed at the mirror so hard that it had smashed the mirror on the medicine cabinet - there was glass and bloody pawprints everywhere.
Moral of the story - those little guys are springy, and they'll go wherever the hell they want to. Thank goodness my current pup is so bottom heavy she wouldn't be able to get over a fence if I left a ladder there.
Would you consider putting up a run for them so they could be outside but connected to something?
He's actually climbing the fence, just like a human climbs a ladder.
I think we're going to replace the current fence with a shitton of chicken wire (so their feet can fit through the fence). It's a hard spot to fix though. It's right where the back fence and side fence meet and theres about a foot worth of open area.
I couldn't believe my eyes when it happened.
We make the rockin' world go 'round.
My parent's cat would do this, so they built this wooden overhang into their yard - maybe 2 feet, and have grown a pretty ivy-type viney plant over it, so it looks very elegant and intentional, when really its a short ceiling of sort to keep her in. Would that be an option for you?? Prob add up, but worth it if you plan on staying in your home for a long time.
ETA Pic: It looks sorta like this, only facing in the yard, and along the whole length.
That isn't a bad idea. There are bushes and crap back there already... but we could probably cut the chicken wire so it could create sort of the same thing, and then anchor the top of it to the back and side fences (kind of like a baseball backstop).... hmmm...
We make the rockin' world go 'round.
Scout
Chocolate Blog!
The first night we had Parker (we got him as a puppy) we gated him (with baby gates) in the kitchen. He whined for soo long, and then just stopped. Didn't taper off, just cold turkey stopped. We feared that he was wedged btwn the fridge and cabinet or somehow killed himself, so we snuck out to see him. He managed to get out of the kitchen and was snuggled up asleep next to a blanket that was on the floor.
It was so cute and mind boggling at the same time. To this day we have no idea how the hell he got out.
We make the rockin' world go 'round.
Scout did that too, but with his crate.
On my way out the door to go to work, I'd lock him in his crate, run upstairs to get something I had forgotten from the bathroom, hear him bark and bark, then no barking at all, then suddenly see him in the mirror, standing behind me, wagging his tail all happy to see me again. I'd go downstairs and his crate would still be locked shut.
Frickin' Houdini-dog.
Scout
Chocolate Blog!
max can do a standing jump and get over our fence its AMAZING. dogs are pretty amazing at what they can do especially if they are determinded.
he used to love to hop t he fence and wander intoour neighbors yard but the kicker was he'd never jump BACK wed always have to go and get him nad its mortifying when he'd go up on there deck and just look into their sliding glass doors in the morning.
the time he jumped out of their yard onto the road we knew it needed to stop and the animal took years off my life that day
ken kinda built this contraption with plywood so he CAN'T get over it now. its not prety but gets the job done