OMG Joan, how scary for you! Those little imps of ours are SO smart that they seem to be able to figure out how to escape anything we put in their way. We have a very big home, and confine the boys to our kitchen/greatroom area. Years ago we used a baby gate when we had our little Ozzie. One day, not long after he came home, my husband and I crossed over to our bedroom to collect laundry, then turned around to find little Ozzie right at our ankles. We thought that we must not have closed the gate, and went on our way. When the laundry was finished, we took the clothes out of the dryer and went across to hang them in our closet. Who do you think we found right there with us again? We placed him back behind the gate, then took a few steps before stopping and turning around...just in time to see little Ozzie squeezing his front leg and head through the space between the rungs! When he saw us looking at him, he pulled himself back into the kitchen and looked at us with a sheepish little "grin". Jim then stapled screening material over the rungs...problem solved.
We now have a much more attractive wooden dog gate in place, but we have to velcro it shut on a ring that Jim installed due to the fact that Beau taught Gus how to hook the bars with his paw to pull it open. And the saga of escape artists continues... |