Neo, all I have to say is I got your number buddy....... I hope, one sec for pics of the fine fencing job .....

I did the gate too cause he looked like he had been digging there.

Next project..... Holes!!!!!





The boys having fun while I am hard at work

hey if the redneck way works, Use it. HAHA

Aint that the truth! It would cost too much to redo the whole fence the way I want it. So I have to make do with what I can afford. Chicken Wire = 9$, Wire Cutters = 6$ Stakes = 10$, safety of having your dog not weaving in and out of cars = priceless!

i<3neo wrote:

Chicken Wire = 9$, Wire Cutters = 6$ Stakes = 10$, safety of having your dog not weaving in and out of cars = priceless!

i love it!


hey if it works use it! i have chicken wire all over the back yard trying to keep them out of my garden, now they just hop over it, i might take it down in the summer and see if they kill all my plants....

Neo kills my plants by peeing on them. I really need to get h fixed. Its been crazy here and I keep putting it off.

If that doesn't work, Jill - trench down a few inches, put the chicken wire in there, and then fill with quickcrete. Stops them from digging up the chicken wire! They have thicker chicken wire, too - the stuff with the squares. Good luck!

Ill try that next. We rent s its hard to do it right. Hopefully this holds for a bit. He was sitting by one of the spots I fixed just staring at it. I can only imagine what was going through his head lol!

i<3neo wrote:

He was sitting by one of the spots I fixed just staring at it. I can only imagine what was going through his head lol!

Now how can I get around that....

Jill, that's impressive. I'm going to have to rig something up here. Our back fence is like 3.5' picket, and it's a bit flimsy. One of these years Ghost is going to figure out she can jump it...

Oh gosh. You should see what I did to block gaps in the fence. I mainly used old logs I had in a pile in my backyard and the divider from one of my crates. lol.

Our back fence is 6 ft high, but out problem isn't the dogs jumping over....it's them going THROUGH and under. It's a patchwork of plywood, new pickets and original fencing as well as rocks and bricks to try and fill in the holes. We're slowly acquiring the pieces to replace one side of the fence...bring on the concrete and chicken wire!! lol

Meredith, our fence is only 4 foot, he is to smart to go over, he'd rather go under , I'm thinking about running hot wire on the top just in case

I might have to run hot wire if she gets bad about it. Hell, that might even help with the cat problem... Ghost hasn't tried to dig under the fence yet, but we are getting quite the collection of holes in the yard. I think it's time to get a sandbox for her to dig in. The rest of our fence is the nice 6' wood panel, but the back sucks. I asked about putting the 6' stuff back there, but the landlord wasn't too cool about that.

Demon&amp;Dakota wrote:

Our back fence is 6 ft high, but out problem isn't the dogs jumping over....it's them going THROUGH and under.

At my first house, Dakota learned within the first week of putting up my fence that he could break the boards at the bottom. I was so mad! I had this huge back yard and spent all this money on this wood privacy fence and couldn't use it! It was my fault though....I should have done the research first. All I worried about was him jumping it, not breaking it!

Ok well, neo tore a hole through the chicken wire . I am open to cost effective methods of keeping him in the fence!

30ft. steel cable lead works really well.

neo wrote:

Ok well, neo tore a hole through the chicken wire . I am open to cost effective methods of keeping him in the fence!

Remember when you were watching him stare at the patch and wondering what he was thinking...

My guess is "How many foot-pounds of energy must be applied to that chicken wire as opposed to the more sturdy wire? And what points on this fencing appear most vulnerable?" And probably some mathematical equation he could use to aid in his escape....

I'm thinking within a few minutes he had his answer! I tell you, these guys are SMART...

Did you use stakes? We do not leave Sabaka outside unsupervised, but our entire fence is made of welded wire fencing (the rolls with little rectangles) that we stretched over a pre-existed split-rail fence. My husband pounded steel stakes in the ground in a few areas where there are gaps or where the dog is messing with the fence or the ground. If you get (or make...I don't know what he did...can you saw rebar?) rebar or metal tomato stakes that are about a foot tall and space them a few inches apart, Neo should not be able to dig or "squiggle" out. I'm assuming that you don't need to do this all the way around the fencing, that could get expensive!

These pups... Good luck!

Len, I actually did tie him out with a steel cable, and he kept running to the end of it and jerking himself back. If I do that again I'm hoping he will stop before he hurts himself. I used metal stakes, but he actually tore a hole through where the hole in the original fence was. He didn't even touch the stakes lol. Damn dog is going to give me a heart attack. He escaped in the time it took me to wash a few dishes lol. I'm just going to have to find a good book to read while I sit on the back porch so I can watch him.

Jill - check out the thicker "chicken wire" that they use to set concrete. You can't bend it easily. Like I said, dig a trench that's deep enough to put quickcrete in - but leave the last inch empty so you can put dirt and grass seed on top. If you move, you can always break it up with a sledgehammer and remove.

Or do hot wire. Supplies should be $60-150 depending on how long you need it and where you get it. Try a farm supply store. We used the Parmak one for horses. For anyone that objects to it - better a dog that knows it's boundaries than a dead dog.

I'm def going to hotwire the top and the bottom, but it will be after xmas. I'm trying to quick fix it till then. I had some landscape timbers I attached to the fence. I couldn't budge them, and I pit 4 layers of the chicken wire on the inside of the timbers . I thought about getting privacy slats that go through the chain link, and trenchant those. Ill have to talk to the landlord to see if tats something he will allow us to do