We've had a problem with Zeke getting out of the backyard. He's been able to push his way under the gate and make it out into the outside world. Zeke doesn't do much...he just sniffs around and then goes to the front door of the house and barks to be let in. However, he could take off.
Since then I've felt like a prison camp commandant and Zeke is my escape artist. My first solution was to add more chicken wire. Nope. Didn't work. Zeke slinked under the chicken wire. Second solution was to put some logs on the ground in front of the gate. No joy. Zeke still pushed his way through. Third solution was to lean a wheelbarrow up against the gate to block his way. Zeke still found a way through. Finally, I took a piece of plywood and attached it to the gate, completely blocking his way. This seems to have worked. However, Zeke hasn't given up. He has taken to digging under the fence! Zeke has never had any kind of digging or go-to-ground instinct up until this point. Luckily, he's not making much progress with his escape tunnel and we can usually catch him in the act, which results in him being sent back inside.
Zora, on the other hand, has no desire to escape, preferring either to go back in the house, or stay outside with any hoomans.
Hey Zeke, dis is Porky Pie....if I start digging in my backyard, and you keep digging...Maybe in a few years, we can hab one big tunnel! Oh wait....dat would onwy work if I libed down under huh? Nebermind..I'll hab to fink of somefing else. :thinik:
If he is digging at the fence you can get re-barb and sink them along the fence line if you are really ambitious you can put a concrete curb along the fence.You can also dig down about three or four feet put chicken wire down cover it back up with dirt.At the gate you might put a large log in front of the gate and just roll it back and forth would be a pain after while though.
My AM Staffordshire terrier use to jump the fence before we put up a privacy fence.We went to a hardware store bought a heavy chain paddlelocked it to a small tire,then put her in a harness so she could not hang her self paddle locked the chain to the harness.We tried the regular dog snaps on the chain she would roll on the back until they opened hence the padlocks.
We now have a 6 ft all steel panel fence down both sides with a cement curb down both sides then the cement yard where they make cement blocks is behind us, they put up a 6ft cement wall.
Hope your boy does not decide to go after a critter or something good luck in finding away to keep him in.
Papbouv
our escapologous was Angus and he was duhhhhhhhhhh enough to show you how he done it, fortunatley it was only into garden beds. My sister dug the chicken wire in about 6 inches no mean feat when you are doing it around a three acre lot.
Roberta
Oliver here way to go brother, mum says I'm to lazy to try it if I cannot barge my way out I just sit.
A concrete curb under the gate might work--excellent suggestion! That might thwart him unless your erstwhile Charles Bronson (the tunnel maker in The Great Escape) manages to dig underneath.
That is one reason why I have concrete around the entire backyard fence. It is 6" deep into ground, and 2" above the soil line, and only 1/2" from the fence, and about 4" wide, so there isn't really any way to get close enough to the fence to dig under it. Then I have extended the porch at the side patio on the west garage door to the backyard, so that is goes under the gate for another foot. In the front yard, when I had the flowerbeds enclosed by the same concrete border, it is right in front of the fence to the east of my house, so no one would dig out there, either.
Quote from: papbouv on October 22, 2007, 09:41:35 PM
If he is digging at the fence you can get re-barb and sink them along the fence line if you are really ambitious you can put a concrete curb along the fence.You can also dig down about three or four feet put chicken wire down cover it back up with dirt.At the gate you might put a large log in front of the gate and just roll it back and forth would be a pain after while though.
My AM Staffordshire terrier use to jump the fence before we put up a privacy fence.We went to a hardware store bought a heavy chain paddlelocked it to a small tire,then put her in a harness so she could not hang her self paddle locked the chain to the harness.We tried the regular dog snaps on the chain she would roll on the back until they opened hence the padlocks.
We now have a 6 ft all steel panel fence down both sides with a cement curb down both sides then the cement yard where they make cement blocks is behind us, they put up a 6ft cement wall.
Hope your boy does not decide to go after a critter or something good luck in finding away to keep him in.
Papbouv
Re-barb???
Re-barb is the metal type rods put in before running cement in all construction it is a rod usually looks rusty in places when you built your house you most likely used some.They come in long sections you can cut them into 12-16 inches take a hammer and drive the re-barb stakes in around the fence line. When the dogs dig they run into a rod and cannot get though depending on the size of the dog determines the spacing of the rods.Hard for me to explain since my hubby is not here to ask how to explain it better he is a wielder would know how to explain it better.I can ask him after he gets home from work if this does not explain it.
Papbouv
Quote from: papbouv on October 23, 2007, 09:55:29 AM
Re-barb is the metal type rods put in before running cement in all construction it is a rod usually looks rusty in places when you built your house you most likely used some. Papbouv
LOL, you mean rebar. To re-barb makes it sound like you are advocating barbed wire (and it is barbed or bard wire, not bob wire as some are wont to call it. It gets it name from the metal barbs that are twisted into the wire).
Quote from: Jeri on October 23, 2007, 11:34:26 AM
LOL, you mean rebar. To re-barb makes it sound like you are advocating barbed wire (and it is barbed or bard wire, not bob wire as some are wont to call it. It gets it name from the metal barbs that are twisted into the wire).
If you have chain link, you can get aluminum tent pegs that can hook to the chain link and you can hammer them into the ground and hook the fence. I did it with Guinness and it worked very well.
Karen :heart:
Zeke!!!! Was ist los?
I Know nuzzing!
It's a split rail fence with rectangular wire mesh and chicken wire. Along most of the length, the wire mesh or the chicken wire easily blocks his way as we can secure it to the ground. At the gates, you dont have any reinforcement at the bottom because the gate has to swing. Zeke has no problem punching through the wire mesh. Once we put in the plywood, his only way out was to resort to digging. Fortunately, Zeke appears to be a slow digger. Combined with the very high concentration of clay in Maryland soil, digging is a very slow proposition, so there is plenty of time to pick up on his escape attempt.
I'm not stressed to the point where I would drop rebar into the soil. He could end up hurting himself on the rebar.
Zeke is digging in a west/southwesterly direction, so it sounds like he's not going to make it Porky's way.
Have ya tried the "wall of sprinkler" ? It's the only way we kept Loki from the neighbor's tomatoes in the old house. "Gee, WHY does it always rain THERE?" :thinik: