this happened last summer when Fara was 8 months old.... thought I would share. Often I take Fara to my fathers for exercise, his yard is fenced in. We play frisbee and fetch there.

One day as Fara was trotting around in the yard, the neighbors dog (which is tied to their porch) began barking incessantly at Fara. Fara quietly turned and trotted over to the the 3 ft chain link fence and hopped over it, went up to the dog and started beating the crap out of it.

I am freaking out and run to the fence wanting to jump it, but realize at the last second, I am not a young man anymore. So I "roll" over the fence, land on my butt and pick myself up. All while I heard the dogs going at it.

As I picked myself up off the ground, I turned only to see Fara quietly sitting in front of me with her head turned to one side(like nothing happened) wondering what the heck I was doing.

The other dog was fine (wasn't much of a fight or anything)I guess Fara wanted to establish some rank with this dog. Funny, the neighbor comes out all embarassed and starts apologizing to ME and says that her dog isn't freindly towards other dogs. I just stood there red faced telling her it was MY fault andwondering how the heck I am keep this from ever happening again.

There hasn't been any problem since now that I am aware she can and will fence jump.

The problem hasn't really gone away though, I'm just aware of the possibility now and make sure Fara is under control at all times.

This winter we have worked with touch pads and I would like her to do some jumping. My hope is that once trained to jump or not jump, she will look to me before deciding on her own what and where to jump.

Fara obviously appears to suffer from barrier frustration and I am working with her to resolve this issue.

I did something like this, too. Last summer I had set Jethro up out in our yard while I worked in the garden. I had his 3' x pen fence attached to the house to form an enclosure tied Jethro to a garden bench with a longish leash (12'). I could barely wrestle this garden bench around by myself, so I figured we were secure.

A dog walked past and Jethro leapt (with ease) over the x pen fence, ran to the end of the leash and started dragging the garden bench toward the dog on the sidewalk. He was making good headway, too.

Lesson learned. Jethro could get a job as a bench puller, if there was a suitable lure to course.

FWIW, the standard hurdle in Schutzhund aka the German Shepherd Breed Qualification Test is 1 meter or about 39" and change. Most dogs clear that with ease. My young male does that more or less flat footed.

The old scaling wall was about 6'.

So, if they want over, they are going over.

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I just stood there red faced telling her it was MY fault andwondering how the heck I am keep this from ever happening again.

Sounds like you're going to need a taller fence.

To add to Charlie's post, I have never found that teaching a dog to jump any sort of sport hurdle/wall has transferred over to creating a fence jumper. That's a basic manners issue.
My dogs have done the 1 meter jump and the 6ft wall in Schutzhund and the old, 1 1/2 times their shoulder height in AKC with ease but have never gone over the 2ft fence surrounding my flower beds.
I've had 12-14 lb hunt terriers that could launch up on a 6ft wall from a sitting position in front of it. When told to they would also go over any fence on farms we've hunted. They have never jumped any fence at home. Basic manners!