Instead of spending all that money on fences, gates or shock collars drop a few hundred on a trainer that teaches you how to be a pack leader. It is much less difficult than you think but you need the knowledge to implement it. When you establish yourself as leader they live to serve you. Right now yours thinks it is the leader and does whatever it wants. If you do care about keeping it safe trust me when I tell you this is how you do it.

1 ...

Report Post

Posted by CCTider

Member since Dec 2014

25240 posts

Posted on 1/22/16 at 4:24 pm to LeauxCountryTigah

Training is a good investment. And it's not just for the dog, but the owners. It'll benefit every dog you have in the future.

Or you could just beat the dog regularly. That works too.

0 ...

Report Post

Posted by Wolf

Member since Sep 2005

1336 posts

Posted on 1/22/16 at 4:42 pm to thedogman

When my dog was a puppy he liked to roam around a lot. We have a similar size yard, but no fence. If we didn't watch him carefully he would go into the neighborhood across the creek. I didn't want to build a dog pen.

What i finally ended up doing was i got about 500 feet of zip line cable and ran it between 2 trees caddy-corner on either side of the property. Then i hooked his leash to the pulley wheel on the line. This gave him access to almost the entire back yard (He can't get to the front yard, but i don't want him up there anyway) and he has never seemed to be bothered by it. He gets the leash tangled in the trees sometimes chasing squirrels, but beyond that it worked like a charm.

This post was edited on 1/22/16 at 4:46 pm

0 ...

Report Post

Posted by tigerbutt

Deep South

Member since Jun 2006

26446 posts

Posted on 1/22/16 at 4:44 pm to thedogman

Same problem for 8 years with two huskies. Tried everything except I've heard to put attach chicken wire at bottom of fence and lay it down about 2 ft from fence and bury it.

0 ...

Report Post

Posted by Rize