Came home today to find NO DOGS! For some reason I checked the mail box and found two impoundment slips. BLOODY DOGS had jumped the fence 4 times and were put back in the yard by someone in the street. On the last time they headed for a busy road and the council ranger was called. Up shot was that I had to pay.....wait for it.....$520 yes $520 to get them out!
Ooooo I was temped to keep the bloody things in there but the kids would've hated me! So I contacted the pound and spoke to the ranger(dogs were unregistered as well I was going to do it soon I promise). I sold him a sob story and got the fine droped down to $280 BUT its going to cost about $200 to extend the fence OR $150 for an eletric fence from Elders (don't know if its leagal) OR $500 for a electric collor set up......BLOODY DOGS

Hey Bakes,

If your dogs have any intelligence, don't waste your money on the electric fence kit. When my GSP was a puppy, he fancied himself as a Hoodini and did a pretty good job of playing the part.

My back gate was of the wrought iron type with a normal lever-type handle and my GSP quickly worked out how to open the gate, so I had to padlock it. Then began about six months of daring escapes culminating in his realisation that the back pailing fence was a bit rickety and that, if he worried the pailings enough, he could knock them off the fence.

My solution was to buy an electric fence kit - but he quickly realised that it was a pulsed system and he would stand next to the fence, listening carefully, and when he heard the pulse he knew he had time to squeeze through the fence - I know, because I watched him do it, several times because I wanted to be sure that was what was going on!

The odd thing is that, out of the blue, he just stopped escaping one day - who knows what goes on in their minds!!!!

You should move to Humpty Bakes, no dog catcher (yet)

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Originally posted by BwanaBob:

If your dogs have any intelligence, don't waste your money on the electric fence kit. When my GSP was a puppy, he fancied himself as a Hoodini and did a pretty good job of playing the part.

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The odd thing is that, out of the blue, he just stopped escaping one day - who knows what does on in their minds!!!!

My GSP can jump the fence as I have found out three times, but he knows he is not supposed to, so most of the time doesn't.

If you had labradors they wouldnt bother to jump out - they have nothing to prove so why bother ..

Until I get off my butt and build proper dog runs, I'm using mesh wire with 3 electric strands on the inside. If they're smart enough to listen for the "zap", then the mesh slows them down. If your dog's a jumper though ... might pay to have a loose wire up high and 30cm in from the fence top ... right about head-height .
Cheers...
Con

just put them on a 5-10M chain while your away and have it stapled/bolted or whatever to a post thats secure in the ground...

I got a couple of stake out chains from work and put them in the yard. This morning I moved the chains to a better position and took the big dog off so I could hammer it in. I looked up and she was half way over the fence!!! Going to Elders to price an electric fence!

Run a fencing wire between a post and a tree and put the chain on the wire to the dog's collar. The dog can ran up and down the fencing wire all day and get some exercise.

i have a 2 year weimaraner and he has being getting out lately.cost me $120 last time.keeps going to the same house just up the road.he chewed throuh the trallase so i put up hurricane fence and that held him in for a while then he found he could jump over and squash the fence.now i leave him in the kennel and run while we are at work which he doesn't like.put a bark collar on him but he manages to get that off.it pisses me off to so this because he is a good retriever and is so keen to work.first dog i ever owned.probably should have got a lab

Maybe you could take the young fella to Puppy Pre-school Bakes,get him trained by someone who knows what they're doing.LOL

Well, at least they still talk to you.
Or do they.

Bakes,

stop winging, your dogs could have been struck by a vehicle or stolen. Consider spending what needs to be spent on improving security rather than handing out in fines.


Tasso

Yes I know mate and that is why I have spent some $$$ on a electric fence. I was just having a vent is all

Bakes i use to have exactly the same problems,my pointer cartucho,my dogo Paimun and sometimes my beach Alumine dogo too wait until was nigth and went to sleep and they jumped a fence of 1.50mtrs and went to kill hogs in a farm 10kms from my house ,i tied them ,hit them ,put a weigth in the neck of Paimun nothing worked fimally a maked a brick wall in all my property .Juan

Well I put up an electric fence and both dogs got hit twice. Now they wont go near the fence at all

Sounds awful, but also take a piece of bacon or other tasty bit and wrap it in aluminum foil and wrap it around the wire so they investigate it and get more reinforcement. If you feel guilty just remember they asked for you to do this.....

Now thats just nastie Mark

Yep it is, but it also teaches them to keep the heck away from the fence while they are still impressionable.

If you did it after tehy had been in there for a month, now that would be nasty!

haha there is nothing like setting an unsuspecting animal up. its hard not to laugh at times

Where I hunt there are a few electric fences to negotiate. When my dog was a pup he got zapped a few times and I got the blame.
Trouble was then to get him through a fence.
They reckon it's dangerous getting over a fence with a loaded gun. Try doing it with a big wriggling sook of a dog.

But now at 11+ he's gotten smart enough to dodge the hot wire himself.