halloween dogs 015

[dancingleaf]

halloween dogs 015
Originally uploaded by dncng_leaf

Took some pictures of the dogs yesterday for my calendar. For a better look at the pumpkin J carved go to my Flickr site.

Yes that's a dog carved into the pumpkin. Awesome - eh?

Comments

[mish55.livejournal.com]

Absolutely, I agree with you. The pinch/prong collars just stuck in my head with a failure to context -_-''''. Every dog I have will always be a house pet (as much as I love the idea of having a little hobby farm in the country, it's never going to happen), and so livestock guardians? Just for the birds. ^_^

Regarding Milk and Honey, I took that site with a grain of salt, but then again, gotta do that with just about everything on the intarwebs these days.

I like to do formal obedience, even if the dogs don't really need it. I took my rescue to puppy school--he was nearing 2 at the time--if only because he needed the assurance that he is not the boss in this house. He may have had complete and total dominion over his foster home, but he doesn't get it here, especially with the current alpha, and the people. My middle lab, though, he's the best behaved of the bunch and didn't go to obedience classes. The oldest, who went through three levels of it, is a raving tearaway.

What kind of fencing do you use? Would you think 6' plank (on one side and along the back) and 5' chain link on the front and other side) to be sufficient?

fencing

[dancingleaf.livejournal.com]

sorry... forgot to answer this.

We have a six foot wood fence. It has to be close enough to the ground that they can't get/dig under it. But tall enough that they don't think they can get over it easily.

I have heard of pyrs who could climb chain link, or jump a shorter than 6 ft fence. But I've also seen pyrs live quite happily in a four foot chain link large yard. The foster home where we got Mason, had a very small yard and 3 or 4pyrs, one lab and one husky mix. And the yard was... very, very small. 40x50? and a three foot high fence? But somehow it worked. I don't think the head of the foster agency gave her any escape artists.

I think it depends on the degree of boredom and wandering quotient in your dog.

Re: fencing

[mish55.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Will poke with other questions later. Good luck with your surgery, it'll be absolutely fine with zero complications and an extra-quick recovery time!