How Do I Make Her Stop!

[Sharpeigirl]

Once again this morning Sassy found her way out of an open door. It's 7am and I'm trying to catch her. Not very sucessfully, but I finally manged to corner her in fenced in area.. Her recall is gone when she hits the open road so to speak. I don't want to resort to the zap collar, but my god. I'm tired of haveing to track her down when someone isn't paying attetion to where she is when they go out. And the funny thing is, i'm always the one to get her, no one else even offers to help me. I'm at my wits end about this. I don't want to see her get hit by a car, because of someone else not paying attetion.. My Grandpa was suppoused to crate her after he took her out this morning. He left the house, she wasn't crated & out she went.. I swear when I move I'm getting a fully fenced yard!!! Front & back. Because here we only have the fence in the back.. Sometimes I really want to kick her, when actually I should be kicking my family!!!

[JackieMaya]

I feel for ya, because when Maya jumps the fence she gets mommy-deaf. When I find her, she'll come running up toward me, smile, and then run back the other way. When I take the kids swimming, Maya has to be on a check cord because I can't trust her off leash.

One thing I did when I had people visiting, is I taped a big piece of paper to the door that said "do NOT let Maya out without her harness on." Maybe you could tape a note to both doors saying "Look for Sassy before opening door" or something like that.

[Sharpeigirl]

That's Sassy, she'll see ya comeing then turn & run the other way.. You can get close enough to grab her then she bolts.. It's like please dog come here!!! One time she ran down the middle of one of the busiest street in our area. I thank DOG she wasn't hit & killed. This morning wasn't much better. I'm so fed up with doing this every so offten. Maybe I'm not the right owner for her :(