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Jack is Nimble, Clever, and Quick

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COMMENT 314986	2012-09-01 02:42 PM
Poor energetic dogs, incarcerated in back yards, usually all day, with nothing to do. This dog could run five miles per day and not turn a hair, I'll bet. He's not getting enough attention or exercise. There is a mesh topping you can put all along the top of your fence. My friends have it to keep in their cats, and it works great. It hangs over at an angle, into your yard, and so cannot be jumped over. Digging under means chicken wire needed. My advice is to put that dog into a daily dog camp, where he can interact with other dogs and also not be BORED to death, stuck in a backyard, day after day.
COMMENT 314998	2012-09-01 03:15 PM
Perhaps getting him a live in playmate. I always had better luck with more than one dog. They do like companionship.
COMMENT 315006	2012-09-01 04:08 PM
Our big dogs always did this, the Labby so he could get to the garbage cans, yummy, and the Malamute just 'cos he could. The Chow we don't know why because he was too uppity to tell us what he did on his days off; but he sure came back in a sweat early one morning with a Coyote hot on his tail. He never left again. We built higher fences, safe for the dogs and preserved our good relations with our neighbours. We exercised them too. The dogs, not the neighbours.
COMMENT 314986	2012-09-01 07:06 PM
One good way to train a dog out of wandering off, is to lie in wait, catch the dog walking out of your yard. Let the dog get only a short way from your house, and be ready with the leash. Snap the lead onto the dog's collar, fast-walk dog home, with an angry attitude. You don't need to say much, just a few words and disapproving demeanor. Immediately put dog on time-out in small enclosed room. Leave dog for 20 minutes. Bring dog out. No words, no caresses. Do this at least three times, and lengthen time-out by 10 minutes each incident. The dog will soon get the message. This may not work with every dog, but I trained two rescue dogs, one a huge Malamute/wolf mix, to stay home, using this method.
COMMENT 315059	2012-09-01 08:22 PM
It is pointless to expect this dog to not leave your yard since he has both ability and motivation. It is a matter of time before he is: hit by a car and injured or killed, injured or injures another animal (cat, other dog, and yes even small children to and from school) and/or ends up impounded. You are being an irresponsible owner. Figure out a way to contain your dog when you are not directly supervising him. And don't whine about being able to afford it/like how it looks, etc.
COMMENT 315006	2012-09-02 07:15 AM
59 Exactly. Any other action would be like pulling an elephant through a mail box. If one loves a pet - secure it. If not, someone or something else will.
COMMENT 315172P	2012-09-02 09:52 AM
We had the same problem. We put in an electronic dog fence and the dog wears a sensor on his collar. Works great. Dog learns the area he can go in and not get buzzed. Once we forgot to change the batteries so there was no buzz--and the dog had learned the boundries so well he stayed in anyway!
COMMENT 315560	2012-09-03 12:24 PM
"Electronic fences" work quite well with some dogs, especially in combination with other forms of motivation and training. Higher fences tend to work with small to medium dogs, but beware of digging! Staple chicken wire to the bottom of the fence and deeply bury the bottom edge. Also, there are legal limits on how high a fence can be in most urban residential areas (usually six feet for back yards) and practical limits as well. A dog that can clear an 8 foot fence can jump onto the roof of a single story house and then the game is over. You ain't seen nothing until you've seen a frisky Great Dane vault onto the roof a 3500 sq ft ranch house in a graceful running jump and then casually hop off of the other side and go sauntering away.

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