Unscheduled play date in OUR backyard!
Charles is a younger guy with a very young and bouncy boxer mix named Titan. Titan has discovered that he too sees the 42" fence as a mere inconvenience. During the last week, he's invited himself into our yard four time that I know of. The first time freaked me out as while I knew of the dog, I didn't know if he was altered. I very quickly found out that he was. Whew!!! This as after Titan had been it the yard for a good ten minutes and Caitlyn is overdue on going into season. Funny thing is that when I got him wrangled up, I put him on his side of the fence and before I got three steps back towards the house, he was walking right next to me!!! Charles and I spoke and he said he'd work on keeping Titan in line. So far the have been a few slip-ups including today. After watching Titan and Caitlyn play chase and play, I fine with supervised play. They're both pretty soft on each other and just wanna run and bounce. Zoey wanted none of it though. She wanted to come in and crash on the recliner. Anyone else have uninvited visitors like this? Vance |
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| no, thank goodness, apart from cats who think our garden is a toilet. Two doors up a family have moved in with their mum and they have a big old collie. he stands in their garden and looks over the wall, low wall, but he is too old to jump. luckily my 2 girls can hear him bark and answer him but cant see him. I think he is trying to work out how to hop over the wall and sort my neighbours cats out! |
Glad the boxer is neutered. I'd still worry about other ambitious neighboorhood dogs jumping a 42" fence. If a fence extension isn't an option, I'd supervise all outside time  |
| At times I wish I had a gate between our yard and eastside neighbor. I'd let Crazy Jack run in our yard. He has dug a trench along the front of his yard as there is limited runway. He'd had a lot more room here. How he and K would to together without a fence between them is unknown; all the snarling and barking might elevate to fighting or turn into a play session. He'd have a lovely time rolling our fat girl around the yard. We do have intruders, one of the Bastard Boxers and Chow from the west. The chow digs under two fences to get into our back field. So far she has made no move to come into the front yard with Harry and K. On the outside of the fence, yeah, somebody comes and defecates along our front fence by the gate. Has been going on for years. Maybe coyote |
| No, the only uninvited visitors have been a snake, frogs, and the ferrel cats like to run along the top of the fence at night to get Asia and China going. Since China is gone now, Asia stays in the house at night. |
No neighbors  |
| We have a 6 foot fence. Occasionally, a cat might try to get into the back yard, but if it doesn't meet with one of our cats first then it quickly meets a dog and decides that this is not a great place to hang out. Other than that we have an insane squirrel that comes into the back yard every now and then. The CCR's dictates that people who have dogs must have them in yards with the 6 foot fences. I wish the HOA would enforce that. I get irritated with other dogs pooping in my front yard. If I wanted to scoop the front yard I'd let my own dogs poo there. So there are dogs out and about, we just don't let ours out front to play with them. |
| Two different former neighbors had dogs that loved ours and used to escape and come to the back door to see if Merlin could come out and play. This was before we had a gate installed to fully close off the back door. One was a jack russel terrier and the other a golden retriever. Different owners. Both dogs would periodically escape the confines of their own homes and come to the back door and give a soft bark for Merlin. I'd always let him out and watch them play and give a quick wave to let the neighbor know we had their dog. All of those dogs have since gone over the bridge. A different neighbor has a golden named Princess, who slips away from time to time. She sometimes comes calling, but she has a wide range of friends so our house is not her only stop. Plus, I think that Archie was the real call and not Sophie or Sherman. Princess was always more problematic: she did not want to be caught and returned home. Since we have never planned to breed and always altered our dogs, it wasn't the same kind of concern. We've been lucky that our neighbors have always had good dogs with no aggression issues. |
We don't have a fence (it's on my wish list), so Sam is never outside without me. I have commented to DH that of all the people in our neighborhood who have dogs, I think only 5 (including us) own leashes.  When we first brought Sam home, I couldn't even take him in our own front yard to play because of neighborhood dogs that used it as their potty.  |
| My dogs are never outside unsupervised. Though the only visitors we've had are squirrels, raccoons a while ago, and supposedly a skunk. Apparently the skunk lives under the shed in the back of our yard. I've never seen it, and though the potential disaster between sheepdog + skunk, if the skunk minds his own business, I'm fine with that, he's gotta make a living too. It would seem my dog's backyard schedule doesn't overlap with the nocturnal skunk's schedule. |
| Funny thing about fences... When we went looking for a house way back in 1997, there were two things on my 'must have or don't waste my time' list - a fenced yard and a minimum 2-car garage. Other than that, I really didn't care too much about what we got as most of the houses where we were looking were pretty similar. I have looked at raising the fence several times but just haven't. I figure if I can just teach mine to not jump the fence then most of my problems are gone. I know not all, but most... I do like my brother-in-law's yard in SoCal; he's got 8' tall stone wall all the way around his place. It's like a fortress!! Vance |
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