RE: A few Moments From my Garden
Great photos. As for your escape artist, have you thought about an electronic fence? A neighbor of ours had very friendly, but enormous dog that was always charging the front door the moment is was opened. So, they put any electronic fence around their front yard (they dug into the driveway sectioning crack to lay it there too); they laid the buried line around the perimeter of their property. IDK how big your property is, but there’s was around a quarter of an acre. Part of the system was a collar that vibrated against the dog’s neck and emitted a signal only dogs can hear; I think the vibration and tone got stronger the closer the got to the fence-line. The dog couldn’t even be enticed to cross that line.
If you try this route, be cautious about the system you purchase. Some of those electronic fence use a shock collar – which is just outright cruel.
We have neighbors, on one side of our house, with two large digging dogs. They were digging under our fence, making us worry our little schnoodle would get through or they’d get through to him. My husband wedged a line of bricks under the fence line on that side of the yard. It seems to have stopped them digging.
Thank you for the tip. The electric fence might be too hard to do - we have 1/3 of an acre and the way it is set up, with a culvert going through and such, it would be hard.
We are working on the rock method. That what we worked on yesterday. 🤓
I hope that works for you, for the safety of your dog.
The bricks seem to have worked for us. When we bought our house a couple of years ago, there was a stack (maybe 1/4 of pallet) of bricks in our garage, which is why we used bricks. But, I would think any largish rocks would suffice. In fact, now you come to mention rocks, the yards in my former neighborhood in MO backed up to the neighborhood park/playground area; my immediate neighbors laid down a low dry rock wall along their back fence because their dog kept digging at the fence line, wanting to follow their children to the park.
In our yard here in NC, the level ground from the corner at the gate, back to the 2 elevated garden terraces at the rear of our yard, isn’t more than a couple dozen yards on that side. Fortunately, the neighbor’s yard doesn’t have the terraces, only a very steep slope which their dogs don’t seem to climb.
I hope so too. It is interesting what dog owners will have to build to keep them in 🐶
For the pups’ sakes, it’s worth it. 🙂