Tragedy Averted and Lesson Learned!
Yesterday we had to go out of town for a bit. Instead of keeping Barley in the crate for an ungodly period of time, we left him in the mudroom with a heaping pan of water, some food, and access to the outside (6 ft. fenced-in) yard. We only planned on being gone about 8 hrs. We've done this before, with no problems.
Well, Barley LOVES me. He will do anything to be with me. Since I was not letting him in the house, he decided I needed to be found some other way. He DUG UNDER the fence to get his massive 60 lb (at 4 months) body out and started the search.
Fortunately, our neighbors found him in their yard and figured out that this was not a situation we would probably desire. They tied him up, left him some water, and left us a note. The neighbor on the other side checked up on him regularly.
We returned to the dog in the driveway and the note. As I jumped out of the moving car, I had all the "could-have-happeneds" spurring me on. The sinking feeling in my tummy was reminiscent of the best roller-coaster ride I have ever been on, minus all the fun.
Barley's fine. Owner is not so fine and still shaky. Got up early on Sun. to go buy breakfast bread for the neighbors. Barley helped deliver it.
Well, Barley LOVES me. He will do anything to be with me. Since I was not letting him in the house, he decided I needed to be found some other way. He DUG UNDER the fence to get his massive 60 lb (at 4 months) body out and started the search.
Fortunately, our neighbors found him in their yard and figured out that this was not a situation we would probably desire. They tied him up, left him some water, and left us a note. The neighbor on the other side checked up on him regularly.
We returned to the dog in the driveway and the note. As I jumped out of the moving car, I had all the "could-have-happeneds" spurring me on. The sinking feeling in my tummy was reminiscent of the best roller-coaster ride I have ever been on, minus all the fun.
Barley's fine. Owner is not so fine and still shaky. Got up early on Sun. to go buy breakfast bread for the neighbors. Barley helped deliver it.
posted by Madzillah at 7:08 AM
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We went through an uncountable pile of cages, runs and hooks before we could secure the escape artist, Warf, and he was only 90 lbs. full grown.
The winner was 6" eyebolts and 50 feet of nylon covered woven steel cable, an 10 foot length of more cable with 4" swivel snap hooks on each end and a nylon collar with steel fastenings, NOT plastic. We had to go to a harness because Warf's head was shaped like a seal's, smaller than his neck. He learned to back out of the collar.
You will find 6 ft. is too small an area for a young, active animal. The run gives them more romp room. Add some real beef hip bones, a soft ball and a water pan anchored inside a tire and they will entertainthemselves and can't dump the water, either.
Have fun, girly!
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