Problem child?
Yesterday she reported her neighbor called to say, "Nikki is chasing a bear down the middle of the highway........" A problem child-dog.  |
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| Wow! Scary. That dog has some instincts! Not necessarily the kind that will keep her alive, but impressive. |
Valerie wrote: Wow! Scary. That dog has some instincts! Not necessarily the kind that will keep her alive, but impressive. Yep....I can agree with that!!  So, how high is their fence?? I have a neighbor friend who raises, shows and sleds with sibes, and they use ONLY 6 foot chain link; and some are in runs that have tops on them....  |
Wow! I'm speechless. China's mother, Angel, could and did jump fences on a regular basis. That was one of the reasons I almost didn't take China. I was afraid the jumping ran in the family.  I've been lucky that China has only been caught "table dancing" once and jumped out a window twice in her 7.9 yrs...the most recent was out the window of my van parked in the garage.I hope your friend finds a solution before anything happens to her pet. |
| Sheesh!! My best friend's Siberian is thankfully not a jumper, but a major runner. If that girl gets out she is GONE and does not obey any commands to come, heel, sit, stay or anything else that she'll do in her normal home environment. If she gets a chance to run, she RUNS. I can't tell you how many miles we've all put on our cars chasing that girl down over the years. We don't even try to get her in the car, we just are hopefully keeping her in eyesight and herding her away from busy streets. We just have to wear her down. Hasn't happened in a couple years now - she's 8 so she's not quite the wild child she was, and she gets lots of running and cart pulling exercise, thankfully. Sibby's are headstrong, that's for sure! |
| My first dog was a Siberian, I well know their jumping and running ability! Sled dog parents, she was born to run! I've kept my mouth shut re: this dog. The wrong breed for them, they usually have Malmutes and then wonder why they have to keep them chained up. They have a steel rail fence with wire, but probably not over 4.5 feet high. They electrified it for a previous husky who was an escape artist, but not a bear chaser. She'd just visit the neighbors. A previous one was a swimmer......she go under the break away fence in the stream (hinged fence that allows debris to pass if it comes down the stream) They've grown lax as 2 dogs ago got fat so quickly (probably thyroid but they'd never test) so had no desire to run. Her son kept close to Mama so didn't learn to run. How fatso is gone, son is old, here comes the young, healthy female. |
I just don't get it. I am always amazed when people get a purebred dog with very specific traits and then get upset when those traits manifest themselves. Laurie and Oscar |
| When you have a basset you know they put nose to the ground and go, never looking back. We've never had a basset that we could totally trust off leash but when we lived in Grafton there was one that lived a couple of streets away and they would walk that dog up by the strip mall with no leash. Always envied them and amazed me because I don't know how they did it! We could get ours to do the heel and sit and come when it was controlled but never when they had a chance to go. |
| Man it definitly does sound like a sibe is not the right dog for them at all! My lil sheepie Lily can clear a 4.5 ft fence with ease. I know our wolf hybrid Ritz, jumps our fences when there is something to chase too but thats why he never is outside by himself and w/out his tags (he is also microchipped). Ive chased him barefoot in a robe (nothing underneath) im sure the neighbors got an eyeful   |
| Yes, sometimes I really do wonder what goes through people's minds when they decide on a breed of dog. Not that I was very well informed when we started down the OES trail myself, but I DID do a fair amount of reading up so I knew, basically what kind personality dog we would be getting. Had to learn to work with/around the herding stuff but the sociable part has really proven true: ours have always loved everyone who walks by. Specifically did not get a beagle or basset (although I love both) because I didn't want to deal with the digging or howling. We live in a high pedestrian traffic area in the center of our small city, near the university campus, so LOTS of college students, faculty and employees, plus the usual neighborhood people, children, etc. walking and bike riding and until it went out of fashion, rollerblading and skate boarding past the house. That seriously affected the kind of dog I was interested in getting: nothing too territorial, for certain. All in all, it's worked out really well, although I so wish we had a larger yard for the dogs. I wouldn't dream of getting a siberian, no matter how beautiful I find them. I do know someone in town who has one--and rules her with an iron will. |
| I've had three Siberians in my adult life. This last one cured me. He was the true escape artist. I've sat outside with him many times to see where he was getting out. Only once did he show me. We have a picket fence and out of all the pickets he found the one(we didn't know) that was not nailed on the bottom. He just pushed it aside and was gone. One day I came home to find him tied up to a pole outside. Dh forgot to bring the dogs in when he left for work and the little stink pot found out if he went into the far corner where the fence met the wall of our neighbor he could finagle a climb and get out that way. That day we had about six calls on the machine from people who "found" our dog. Finally the neighbor who watched him get out twice after someone brought him back, tied him to the pole so he couldn't get out anymore. Many, many hours searching for him, asking people if they saw the dog, dh going one way and I the other keeping in touch by cell phone hoping and praying the dog wouldn't get hit by a car. These dogs are very strong willed and are thinkers. I learned that with the first one and tried to out think the dog. You have to really love the breed and the 'HAIR!!!" that comes out in huge tufts in the spring. Never again. |
| A friend of ours used to raise Siberians. The were escape artists. Always jumping the fence and running. We had a female Pyr that would get out occassionally. Never saw her do it, but I would get the occassional call at work about a Pyr running down the middle of the road. I'd run home, and she would be back in the fence. I finally found out there was a neighbor that would catch her running down the road and bring her back and put her in the fence. Then one Sunday we put her in the fenced area and shortly after we saw her standing in the middle of the street stopping traffic. (an ambulance not on call that is.) Lisa Frankie and Mattie |
Oh Lisa, no wonder you switched breeds,  Yep, I well know these breeds "need" to escape. In addition to all the Pyrs and Sibe, I did have a Newf who, in his youth, loved to help my neighbor get his mail. The silly dog could climb the chainlink fence like a monkey, run across the street and sit next to my neighbor, "Hi Joe, did I get any mail?" Took an electric wire across the top of the fence to stop that silliness. In all fairness, Harry did get out.......once. The woven wire and barb wire fence between us and the west side neighbor was sagging a bit and somehow Harry fell over it. Early in the evening I kept hearing his bark, figured he was barking at the neighbor's dogs. Little did I know he was among them, barking at me, "Mom, come get me!" |
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