Aroura Posted October 13, 2002 Posted October 13, 2002 Tessa is the biggest party animal, whenever I have a party she's always the centre of the action (takes after her mummy :wink: ) Anyway, I guess you should all know by now that Tessa is a chronic fence jumper, we've raised the fence and all but still, she goes straight over. Anyway, last night I think that she had the attitude "if mums going out, then so am I!". Well, when I called dad at 3am he brought Tessa when he picked me up. Tessa loves it when a car load of drunk people jump in the car and fuss over her! Apparently she'd been missing a few hours before hand. I got woken up this morning by a phone call saying that these people had my dog! She's got Lilys collar on, which has my phone number on it. Apparently she'd been at the party all night, come home for the car ride then gone back to the party!!! They were having a bbq and she was eating all the scraps and drinking all the spilt drinks... hmm, wonder if she had as good a night as I did? I just think its cute that Tessa invited herself to a party! :wink: Quote
anne3149 Posted October 16, 2002 Posted October 16, 2002 You need to add panels to the top of your fence angling inwards. You should know where your dog is at all times. You may be a party animal and like a carload of drunks but your dog is a dog. Not only should your dog not be roaming but it should not be eating scraps at a barbeque. What about if it picked up a chop bone and caused an intestinal blockage. Go party all you like girl but make sure your dogs are safe first. Quote
Rowie-the-Pooh Posted October 17, 2002 Posted October 17, 2002 BTW: Just so you know, Aruoura is a regular member here, and I know enough of her to say that she is a GREAT doggie owner.....she loves her dogs and knowes what she's doi'n...... Aroura: LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D I think that's wayyyy toooooooooooooo cute!!!! :D LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D The little :angel: Quote
Aroura Posted October 20, 2002 Author Posted October 20, 2002 Yep, she's a cutie alright. You can only imagine what I was thinking when I got that call saying "your dog was at our party last night, would you like to come and pick her up???" Well, for ages she has been jumping the fence just at the gate, so, thinking "this'll stop her!" we added an extention to the top. Now it seems she has moved to another part of the fence, 5 foot with no leg grips, she just runs and jumps! She clears it every time. I do realize we should make the fence higher and at an angle at the top, but we have a BIG yard and it would take a whole day and alot of wire to do it, plus I would have to get dad in the mood for it and that would just be impossible. She's been spending the past few weeks in the sunroom, but she's getting fat from it. :evil: Quote
Rowie-the-Pooh Posted October 21, 2002 Posted October 21, 2002 awww...... Maybe you could find a free day to fence the yard? And if your dad is not in the mood for it, you could probably ask some friends to come over and help? It would really save Tessa from alot of trouble...and more sleep for you! :wink: :D One thing that could go wrong.....maybe a drunk(you know what happens) could do something to her? Or they don't get THAT drunk? Or a car could hit her? I think the best option is to fence the whole yard.. :wink: Anyways.....how's Lilly doi'n? The heat and everything? :wink: I know how you feel.....I had to go through that.....you know the story :P Quote
anne3149 Posted October 23, 2002 Posted October 23, 2002 I am sure Aroura loves her dogs, it comes through in her posts. But loving them is not enough. You must be responsible for your dogs. You must know where they are at all times and you must make the place escape proof. To have your dog wandering around a barbeques eating god knows what and having them wandering around the streets is not cute at all. It's not fair to the dog and it's not responsible ownership. Also if the damn dog is wandering around with a bunch of drunks then I ask "How predictable is their behaviour". If Aroura's dog gets out and gets hit by a car - what then????? If it picks up a bait such as snail pellets in someones yard what then?? Rat poison - what then??? NO IT IS NOT CUTE AT ALL. Quote
Carolk9s Posted October 23, 2002 Posted October 23, 2002 I have to agree with Anne, this is NOT cute. It actually is irresponsible in my mind, while I hope real steps are being taken to curtail this escaping by Tessa, Aroura thinking it's cute is kinda bothers me. Lets be real, if no one here knew Aroura and she was a new poster, you'd be all over her for this. I know this may be too strong for some and I don't mean to just ruffle feathers first thing in the morning but I believe the dogs best interests have little to do with how cute one might think the dog escaping its yard is. Quote
Rowie-the-Pooh Posted October 23, 2002 Posted October 23, 2002 I am sure Aroura knows of the dangers in Tessa escaping...and I am sure she is outside now fencing her yard. You should put it in her place, she lives with her parents....maybe they don't like the yard getting fenced?? I dunno, i'm sure you remmember how hard it is to convince your parents to do something! :wink: Yes, it is not cute, Aroura is a very good friend of mine, and I am SURE she knows the danger in that. I'm also SURE that Tessa only escaped once. And that Aroura will is keeping her safe for the time bieng. Believe me I know Aroura, and she has a gift for handeling things. I'm sure she can handle this one. Aroura is a VERY good dog owner.....I know the way you read it, it seems as if we think it no big deal...but every cloud has a silver lining, maybe Aroura was looking at the good side of it? I don't know....i'm leaving this conversation before it becomes a heated argument! :wink: Quote
Aroura Posted October 24, 2002 Author Posted October 24, 2002 Of course I'm working on getting it fixed! I've been working on it for the past year... first she used to jump onto the bbq then straight over from that.... so yes, we ripped out our cement bbq!!! Then she started jumping over the gate part of the fence, because there were kind of foot grips. Well, we put up a wire that she just pushed down as though it wasn't even there. So then we get this huge peice of corregated iron that we put on, that stoped her for a while too, until she started jumping over that and pushed it down a little. So, we have been trying... and trying. Thanks Rowie :wink: At the moment she's inside all day, which is making her fat and lazy. The neighbours have have a roll of wire fencing out the front of their house for ages, they just offered it to us to put over the top of the existing fence (which I remind you, is 5 feet.... its not like we got a dog with a 3 foot fence and just expected it to stick around...) so we will get to work on that this weekend ok? I know all the dangers of her jumping the fence, and although it isn't a busey area here I've still been trying to stop her, I'm not just letting her jump and taking the attitude "she'll be right..." When I said it was cute about her going to the party I just thought it was cute how she just rocked up and joined the party... I'm not saying I would encourage her to do it again. She wasn't harmed, was taken care of and had a good time! Its happend now, and i'll try not to let it happen again, but its over so theres no point in going on about what could have happend, because it didn't, and it wont because I'm fixing the problem! Quote
Hobbit Posted October 24, 2002 Posted October 24, 2002 A dog stays in confinement because it wants too. Kelpies are notorious for climbing like a monkey --- it's a characteristic. We have 6 foot fences and some of the 5 month old Kelpie pups can scale it like a lizard! A single strand of electric fence (pet strength only) works wonders. Quote
science_doc Posted October 24, 2002 Posted October 24, 2002 Hobbit, As usual you are right on with the electric fence. A friend of mine had 2 huskies that were held in by a relatively low fence with a little bit of electric fence on top. Funny thing though, whenever power went out (happens lots during Wisconsin winters, LOL) the dogs would get out and roam. Of course this only happened when someone, like me, was taking care of the little stinkers :lol: :o :lol: :o Quote
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