Inexpensive containment options?
What do you guys all have in your yards? Any ideas to share? Karen  |
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| In our back yard, we have it fenced.
When he's out front with us, we have a 20' tie out that he runs along. That seems to work really well. We have a cord attached to two trees and then the tie out comes down off that and is hooked to his collar. He pretty much as run of most of the yard (length of it anyway). He also doesn't get tangled up this way. |
| I have used a dog run before. The kind where there is an over head line between two solid posts and the line comes down to the dog. They work well but there are alot of safety issues and you would never want to leave a dog home alone on one. You also need to make sure that they cannot get hung up on anything and while they are on the run you need to keep an eye on them. |
| There's an ordinance in the nearby city against tie-outs and over head lines....yeah gads! No wonder so many dogs are neurotic and underexercised. Also it is hotter than blazes right now and idiots would leave their dogs on the line all day. |
| Jasper's only on his when we're out front with him. If we let him loose, he takes off running into the street, and we finally catch him a mile or so down the road. :/
When he's not supervised, he's out in the backyard...which is fenced in. I didn't know that the tie-outs could be dangerous though! Sorry for giving ya that advice. |
| We use remote control collars/trainers which works wonders on our dogs. Winston, our OES, we trained from a puppy to be off the leash while Bagel was on an 80 foot tie off. My hubby bought the collars at Cabela's I think and it works really good. If a beagle listens well on it, you know it is good for the OES. We have no fence on our property and these are a god send b/c now I can put the collars on in the morning and let them out with out trying to get one dog on a leash, tie down, etc. It wasn't that much for the collars either. |
| How about an invisible fence? They work really well! |
| Invisible fences are good up to a point. Big dogs blow right thru them. We never let Pyrs go out in rescue to a home with invisible fence because the dog immediately became.........invisible.
The fences are expensive. And keep batteries on hand for the collars. sheepieboss |
We have been trying to put a fence in since May!  We've hit bedrock, 6inches below the sandy soil, and can not find a company that has time or equipment to come drill some holes!  So, since December, when we got GG, we put up temporary snow fence!  He is never out with out our supervision, and we take him for walks upto 3 times a day, weather permitting!  Our closest neighbor, about 2 acres away, has remarked on the bright orange fencing! Well, we have a saying out in the country, "if you can't see it from the highway, it's fine!" We have 40 acres and she is our only neighbor, so if you are in the city, the neighbors might not like it! 
Well, not the best suggestion, but that's what we've got going on here!
Colleen and Gucci George PS if anyone knows anyone...please let me know!  |
| If you're handy and have the time, you can build an inexpensive fence (if codes permit in your area). Several years ago when my son and daughter in law moved in with their two dogs and my Collie, I fenced off a patio and chat paved area of about 1000sf from the rest of the yard lawn so the three dogs wouldn't tear up the lawn, my son's dog was a digger. I made it out of 2"x3" landscape timbers for posts every 8' with a 2"x4" rail across the top and bottom, and stappled 2"X4"x48" welded wire to the framework. I still use it now for Barney and Maggie, keeping them off the grass when the ground is wet. |
| Sir Gucci's Mom,
We are in Oklahoma and are well known for our red clay dirt that is difficult to dig through. CJ and I rented a 2 person Auger.....(I think that is the name ) from Home Depot. It only took a few minutes to dig in the few feet necessary to cement in the posts. If you are quick and prepared for the auger, it doesn't cost very much to rent it for a few hours.
Good luck on your fence.
Stormi and co. |
| Thanks for the responses guys! Maybe we can afford to fence in a little area of the yard temporarily off the kitchen door for a "run". As it is heading toward autumn (well MN autumns begin 9/1!) maybe fencing will go on sale as the retailers try to clear it out of the stock! I'm gonna keep my eyes open Any doggie wouldn't be outside for extended periods of time anyways, unless one of us was outside doing chores or something... In winter- forget it! Outside, potty, inside- nothing wants to go out in -10 weather! Brrrr....
Karen |
stormi wrote: Sir Gucci's Mom,
We are in Oklahoma and are well known for our red clay dirt that is difficult to dig through. CJ and I rented a 2 person Auger.....(I think that is the name ) from Home Depot. It only took a few minutes to dig in the few feet necessary to cement in the posts. If you are quick and prepared for the auger, it doesn't cost very much to rent it for a few hours.Good luck on your fence. Stormi and co. Thanks for the advice, but we have tried that! It's solid bedrock! I'm convinced that we need an oil drill at this point! 
We'll keep trying! 
I'm getting to the point where I want to wrap snow fencing around trees in our forest! Boy, would our neighbor freak! 
Colleen and Gucci George=>waiting patiently! |
Sir Gucci's Mom wrote: Thanks for the advice, but we have tried that! It's solid bedrock! I'm convinced that we need an oil drill at this point! Colleen and Gucci George=>waiting patiently! We have areas of ledge in our yard too, what would be nice is if they had a round pen for dogs like the ones for horses, but with a strong mesh material so its closed in... |
| What I did (by myself too) was build an above ground dog run. Of course I used the house as a wall, and we finished our fence. So where I needed to make an end, I used railways ties for the base, made my posts by hand digging holes, and back filling. Then with a heavy wire mesh...stronger than chicken wire but not like chain link...inbetween and cheaper than chain link. Stapled it on in two layers, high enough. Built a gate, and we were done. It was a temp solution and we intended to do better, but so far it's lasted 2 years....fortunately we don't have a dog that challenges fences/gates. She sees a wall and leaves it alone.
It probably cost me $40 to build....like I said we already had our main wood fence finsihed and the house made the other side....It's a pretty long tunnel, plenty of room for them to keep their business away from food/dog house/water. |
| Colleen, you must be on the shield? So mostly granite.... 3 billion year old rock caused by magma... not an easy thing to get through.... in the Haliburton area to build the highways they used dynomite to get through it. Got a few sticks handy?? LOL Our yard is full of it too.... when my dad did his yard he rented a backhoe. |
| I have a solution for digging dogs. I read it somewhere.
You take the fencing with plastic coating over the metal.... Pretty cheap stuff. You can buy rolls of it. Most people using it for garden fences Anyhow. At the edge of whereever you plan on building your fence dig up about 6 inches of dirt and put this fencing under the ground laying down abutting the area where the upright fence will go. This will prevent your dog from being able to dig under the fence |
| How cute!! The avatars of Elissa and Stacey are almost the same.....LOL Sky and Pepsi are twinkies....LOL
Well, I thought our Oklahoma red dirt was a problem, I guess not quite as bad as I had thought...LOL I don't have granite to deal with. I am not familiar with snow fencing, is it the bright orange construction plastic mesh? I think you said you were surrounded by acres, maybe you could just spray paint it a camo green color and it can blend in.... LOL Lack of sleep may be affecting my ideas.
Stormi and co. (We're going to see THE WIGGLES in Dallas!! Hoop de doo!!) |
The spray paint idea would really make our neighbor happy! But orange is my favorite color! 
Stacy, the dynamite idea has crossed my mind! And I thought when we bought the house that we would be putting in an in-ground pool, AHAHHAHH! NOT!
All the ideas of the railway ties and meshing are really great ideas, when I am ready to give up the dream!  The worst is all the lumber, sonic tubes and cement have been sitting on our driveway and in our garage since May! I don't think we would be able to sell in any neighbors! I'm assuming we are not the only ones! |
| Has anyone tried an aerial tie out? Henry and I will be staying in a short term rental with a back yard but no fence. Henry would jump anything shorter than 5', run away in a heartbeat and does not "come" regularly. We have a nice back porch and trees to attach an aerial line, so has anyone tried one of these? |
| Hey Colleen, they have green snow fencing now. But, I'm sure that if you tried that it would be like camouflage and GG would run right into it! |
| Henry's Mom,
We had one for our OES when I was a kid. The aerial run went from the house to a tree about 120 feet away. Everytime we would let Daiay out she would run all the way to the end near the tree as fast as she could and bark.... I guess to let all the dogs in the neighborhood know that she was out...lol It was wonderful and the other trees were not close enough to the run for her to wrap herself around. Just be careful that Henry has enough room on each side to walk around and yet not get wrapped around trees. She did manage to sneak out before we got the clip on her collar and many many times, Daisy was a runner. Most of the time she would wait until clipped.
Elissa |
| When Tasker and I lived in the the "mobile home park" (yup we is trailer park trash-or was) I had a rather interesting tie out made out of one of those umbrella clothes line poles. It was set into the ground in a plastic receptical that was cemented into the ground and he had a cable that was hooked at the top of the clothes line. the pole pivoted with him I also used it for a clothes line ). The cable was pretty long and the pole was extra sturdy. I did not leave him on it unless I was outside working in the yard or just inside paying attention to him. But the kids would ride by on bikes and he would take off after them and it would hold. He would get wound up around the pole from time to time but that is why you want to make sure you are keeping an eye on them. It worked better than the ariel tie out because there was less he could get tangled on. The swival head lessened (but not eliminated) the wrap around potential. |
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