My GSD has 2 places where she can get out of the fence despite heavy duty reinforcements of the fence. When she was a puppy, the breeder had nicknamed her the "jailbreak leader of the puppy nursery" because she was often outside the area and they could never figure out how she got out. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I have to go to work every day so I can't monitor every moment. What would you do? I am saving for an e-collar for general distance training and perhaps I could use this for breaking her habit. Other option was a wireless fence. Thanks.
Why does the dog need to be outside when you are at work? Do you work excessively long hours?
I would crate the dog, in the house, where none of your neighbors will have to hear her barking during the day and you have more control over what she is exposed to.
The underground fences work well, but make sure you get a GOOD one. You get what you pay for liken anything else, and with a large dog it counts.
Depends on the age of the dog. Housebroken dogs will hold it much longer than is comfortable, but that isn't fair to the dog.
For an adult dog 8.5-9hrs is really maxing it. Occasionally longer(chit happens) but beyond that I would consider buying a very sturdy kennel. (not the 125$ chain link kind, I am talking more like gorilla cage <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> ) Don't forget a top if your dog is an escape artist.
My dogs are spoiled. In the summer I work 6 hrs a day and in the winter I don't work and they go to school with me. We play in-between classes. God I don't look forward to having to join the real world...
Our 2 dogs are often in the house in the afternoon, unsupervised, though not every day. Depends on if I can get home at lunch or not and if someone will be home within 4-5 hrs. to let them out. I don't need to crate, nor do I want to for these periods. Barking is not a problem. Replacing the fence at this point is not an option. We have combination cedar and chain link. We have used rebar to help anchor the chain link and that helps.
Then I would seriously consider the underground fencing option. You could teach her the perimeter with the ecollar, but she will eventually figure out when you are there she gets shocked, when you aren't she doesn't. Then we are back to a loose GSD.
Have you considered electric fencing? You can get some small fencer units for quite cheap and dogs learn to respect it quite quickly. For unsupervised periods I would go with a nice secure
(roofed) kennel run. Escape artist dogs are always thinking up new and ingenious ways to thwart fencing.
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underground electric fence can be useful. I have found 2 flaws with them however.
1. It does not keep strays out of your yard.
2. If the desire to leave the yard is strong enough, the dog will take the shock to get to the other side. The problem is, the desire to come back in the yard is usually not as strong as what tempted them to leave in the first place.
I agree with the response of purchasing a good kennel.
DFrost
Any behavior that is reinforced is more likely to occur again.
I was thinking a regular hotwire electric fence - sometimes just a couple of strands will do the job if you set them about 6 inces inside your regular fencing as it prevents jumping over and digging under. Maybe the underground fencing would work if you set up a perimeter of it inside your other fencing. I would still go with the kennel run when you are not there as the safest option as you never know if some idiot is going to open your yard gate if you are not there or throw something in your yard or tease your dog.
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