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so basically he's a yard dog? sounds like he's bored. Are you talking about electric fencing like for cattle? or invisible fencing? If you're having to consider electric voltage fencing or chaining him up all day - maybe why have a dog? Invisible fencing - a dog with enough drive and/or pain tolerance can blast right through it. Plus they have to wear a shock collar that could get caught on the other regular fencing or on something else.
It's that easy for him to jump a four foot fence? I didn't think it would be. Maybe I need to reevaluate my containment measures. I really don't want to use a shock collar but I'm getting a little desperate. I hate to chain him up and it seems that a shock collar would be the better solution. At least with the collar it would be his choice whether or not to get shocked. With chaining him up nobody is happy. I don't know. Any ideas on what it would take to train him to stay in the yard? I just don't have a lot of hours to invest in training.
Hey Erik and Dobe and Torp, you know better than I, certainly. May I offer observations of my city neighbor's evolution with his two Dobies. For a couple years his pooch rested quietly on the back patio chained and happily bored. Then with a new younger dobie added he tried a buried electric / frequency shock collar perimeter which held them in nicely - for six months or so. We saw the dogs wander the neighborhood peacefully there after. Being timely dogs, they returned to their patio or porch by 5:15 every weekday while people returned at 5:30 or so. Finally, I saw their escapes. With a tense grimace and a cocked head they would bolt and launch themselves high and fast paws tucked tight through that pain generating force field only to land with a shake and a skip to be off on the days adventures. Neighbor Chuck (Charles to you and me) never did believe me until I left photos on his door anonymously. I hope those dogs take good care of Chuck.
It's that easy for him to jump a four foot fence? I didn't think it would be. Maybe I need to reevaluate my containment measures. I really don't want to use a shock collar but I'm getting a little desperate. I hate to chain him up and it seems that a shock collar would be the better solution. At least with the collar it would be his choice whether or not to get shocked. With chaining him up nobody is happy. I don't know. Any ideas on what it would take to train him to stay in the yard? I just don't have a lot of hours to invest in training.
We installed Invisible Fence when we lived in town. It successfully contained our hard headed, never saw a road he didn't want to go down, Siberian Husky. It is "adjustable" to provide the length/amount of "warning tone" your dog needs to remember what's coming if he continues forward. They must be trained on the system over a few weeks, but that is an easy process. He bolted through it once early on and then sat and wondered how he would get back in the yard. As he aged, he figured out that he could drain the battery by moving out to where it gave the warning tone but didn't shock him. Once he got the battery drained, he left We adjusted the warning tone to give him just a second or two before shocking him and that ended that. You can strategically install your underground wire to keep the dog where you want him in the yard. For example, we ran ours so he could use the pet door (on the side of the garage) at will and run in the side and back yard. He could not get into the front yard unless we opened the overhead garage door and let him out the front. We ran the wire about half way across the front yard so he couldn't get down by the sidewalk where people might be walking their dogs. In short, it worked very well, and he was a handful to keep contained. On the downside, it doesn't prevent other dogs, animals, or people from approaching him in his yard. It also requires that he wear a pronged collar when he is outside. For us, it beat chaining him up outside. We would have preferred a tall privacy fence but the local ordinances wouldn't allow it. Have it installed correctly, understand how it works, and train the dog properly. Then you can enjoy seeing your dog freer than most city dogs can be in their own yard.
suggestion for sealing the fence off better.... will take some work but dig down a little and bury chicken wire fence and run it up and attach it to the bottom of the chain link fence... the underground part runs inward so when poochy digs, he hits chicken wire. Or, line the bottom edge of the fence with pressure treated wood of some sort to form a barrier along the bottom. But yeah, 4 feet - he may figure out soon enough he can get over that. Training wise - you could do the invisible fence and collar and use that to train his boundary. Dogs love routines - if he knew he had play time and dinner time same time everyday.. might be motivation for him to accept your training of boundaries and stick around. Is your dog intact or neutered? some males get wander lust when they smell females in heat.
I spent an hour cleaning up a crate diarrhea explosion this morning. Stupid dog just had to eat that dead field mouse and wash it down with deer poo.