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The dog got out of the yard not once but twice this morning. She is so skinny that she can get out under the deer fence. She is home and won't be going out with out a leash until we can figure out how to fix this.
The first time DH found her standing by the garage. He fixed the escape route. The second time she escaped right in front of our eyes in a different spot. DH got her in the woods by shaking the treat bottle. I am so thankful she's home.
The deer fence is tied down with hooks that screw into ground. Obviously, we need more or another fence.
Whew, I am a total wreck. More later........
I am a ball of mush......
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LDN July 18, 2014
Joan
LDN July 18, 2014
Joan
Joan,
I can't visualize what our fence looks like at the bottom, but you may need to add a twisted wire at ground level, (such as barbed wire), and then add a narrow strip of netting, and tie it to the twisted wire. This is assuming that your dog isn't a "digger". If she's inclined to dig, you may have to lay about a foot of the netting out on the ground, inside the fence, (or bury it), so that she can't dig under it. My brother had to do that with his dachshunds.
Tex
I can't visualize what our fence looks like at the bottom, but you may need to add a twisted wire at ground level, (such as barbed wire), and then add a narrow strip of netting, and tie it to the twisted wire. This is assuming that your dog isn't a "digger". If she's inclined to dig, you may have to lay about a foot of the netting out on the ground, inside the fence, (or bury it), so that she can't dig under it. My brother had to do that with his dachshunds.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Thanks, I don't think we could use barbed wire (too dangerous) but we do have to do something.
We have a lot of J hooks that screw into the ground and hold the fence down but obviously not enough.......
DH talked to the breeder to find out if the dog had a kennel cough shot she needs to get in to obedience school. He told the breeder everything was fine. I hope his nose doesn't grow.
We have a lot of J hooks that screw into the ground and hold the fence down but obviously not enough.......
DH talked to the breeder to find out if the dog had a kennel cough shot she needs to get in to obedience school. He told the breeder everything was fine. I hope his nose doesn't grow.
DISCLAIMER: I am not a doctor and don't play one on TV.
LDN July 18, 2014
Joan
LDN July 18, 2014
Joan
Perhaps I've missed something -- what kind of dog are you talking about here?
All of my dogs have been escape artists to a point.
My first dog learned at a young age to climb the chain link fence, --- over and out!! We planted fast growing bushes along the length of the fence. She never did figure out how to deal with that, or had she just gotten to old?
The next girl learned how to get her front feet place out onto the top bar of the neighbors chain link from the high point of our rock wall. Once balanced in that awkward position, then a quick rear end push, --- over and out!! We rigged up some panels of that 12" collapsible garden fencing and some piano wire from the Lilac bushes above to form sort of a fence from the sky. Looked kinda trashy -- but it did the job.
Another of my girls, the one who's photo appears above was the craftiest. She found a place in that neighbors chain link that was not quite tight at the bottom. She would ease her way between the wall and the fence to that loose point, and then lay down on her side between that rockwall and the fence and push herself backward under to chain link mesh to --- under and out!!! This was the most difficult to diagnose
as it was going on in a place where it wasn't readily visible from our yard and when I saw this tactic I coul barely believe my eyes. I went to the garden store and got small 12" stake like devises and wove them through the fence fabric and into the ground so the fence could not be stretched. Problem solved. 
My motto has become ... Where there is a will, there has got to be a way.
DOGS --- GOTTA LOVE THEM!!!
Let us know how your problem is solved.
Gayle
All of my dogs have been escape artists to a point.
My first dog learned at a young age to climb the chain link fence, --- over and out!! We planted fast growing bushes along the length of the fence. She never did figure out how to deal with that, or had she just gotten to old?
The next girl learned how to get her front feet place out onto the top bar of the neighbors chain link from the high point of our rock wall. Once balanced in that awkward position, then a quick rear end push, --- over and out!! We rigged up some panels of that 12" collapsible garden fencing and some piano wire from the Lilac bushes above to form sort of a fence from the sky. Looked kinda trashy -- but it did the job.
Another of my girls, the one who's photo appears above was the craftiest. She found a place in that neighbors chain link that was not quite tight at the bottom. She would ease her way between the wall and the fence to that loose point, and then lay down on her side between that rockwall and the fence and push herself backward under to chain link mesh to --- under and out!!! This was the most difficult to diagnose
as it was going on in a place where it wasn't readily visible from our yard and when I saw this tactic I coul barely believe my eyes. I went to the garden store and got small 12" stake like devises and wove them through the fence fabric and into the ground so the fence could not be stretched. Problem solved. My motto has become ... Where there is a will, there has got to be a way.
DOGS --- GOTTA LOVE THEM!!!
Let us know how your problem is solved.
Gayle
She is a Borzoi (Russian Wolfhound). We are probably going to put another fence (a farm type wire fence, I think) in behind the 7'6" deer fence and put it partly underground. At least that's the plan for now.
I was so totally scared we were going to have to tell the breeder she was gone the first full day home.......I guess the house and yard inspector for the breeder wasn't so great after all.
We took the dog to the humane society to get her microchip read. The inspector had said they could only tell if she was chipped but not read the chip numbers. WRONG, they had a universal reader and it worked perfectly.
I'm sad that I can't take her to obedience school because I don't know if my LC will act up. I may just have to take some meds...a waste of a year..........
I was so totally scared we were going to have to tell the breeder she was gone the first full day home.......I guess the house and yard inspector for the breeder wasn't so great after all.
We took the dog to the humane society to get her microchip read. The inspector had said they could only tell if she was chipped but not read the chip numbers. WRONG, they had a universal reader and it worked perfectly.
I'm sad that I can't take her to obedience school because I don't know if my LC will act up. I may just have to take some meds...a waste of a year..........
DISCLAIMER: I am not a doctor and don't play one on TV.
LDN July 18, 2014
Joan
LDN July 18, 2014
Joan
Joan,
Sorry, I didn't really mean that you should use a barbed wire, I meant to use twisted wire of that strength range, so that it could be stretched tight enough to hold netting wire down. You can get that wire without the barbs. We use it all the time for tying corner braces in barbed wire fences, but without the barbs, you don't get slashed up by the wire.
Gayle,
I agree - I've never met a dog that wasn't skilled at finding any and all flaws in fences.
Tex
Sorry, I didn't really mean that you should use a barbed wire, I meant to use twisted wire of that strength range, so that it could be stretched tight enough to hold netting wire down. You can get that wire without the barbs. We use it all the time for tying corner braces in barbed wire fences, but without the barbs, you don't get slashed up by the wire.
Gayle,
I agree - I've never met a dog that wasn't skilled at finding any and all flaws in fences.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.