Need Yorkie-proof gate!
 

We just adopted a 7-month-old male Yorkie a couple of weeks ago. Our problem is finding a gate that he can't either climb or go through. We purchased a regular baby gate and he was able to get his little paws in the holes & climb to the top to get over. We then got another baby/pet gate with vertical bars that was 36" tall. He couldn't get over it, he just went through the bars. I've been thinking about the retractable mesh gates. Anyone have any ideas? We work 8 hours a day and would like to contain him to our utility room instead of a crate.

We used a white plastic piece of lattice. At first we had a wooden lattice but the holes were too big - about 2 inches. The white plastic holes are about 1 inch. It's about 4 feet by 8 feet. Sammy was a jumper!!
We got it at Home Depot and you can cut it with a saw to fit the size you need. Good Luck!!

We have a baby gate that is made of plexi glass - no toe holds!

Alvindy, where did you get one made from plexi-glass? Sammy Mommy, I looked at thelattice but was afraid he'd be able to climb that.

I have 1 like this for mine.
Richell Freestanding Pet Gates | PetEdge.com


You can buy a sheet of plexiglass at Home Depot- Drill a few holes and tie it to your existing gates. My friend did this with per pup and it worked like a charm. :)

I just bought two gates and stacked on on top the other

Amazon.com: Iris CI-604 Indoor/Outdoor Plastic...
I actually purchased two of these playpens as I have extra wide doors. Romeo is a little teapot at 15-16 lbs and has NEVER been able to knock these over.

I have one of these too! I did a review on it on amazon actually right after we got it, we use it as his regular pen when we go to work and whatnot. He loves it =]

Amazon.com: Jessica's review of Iris CI-604 Indoor/Outdoor Plastic Pet Pen...

I recommended this to a friend who just got a new pup and she loves it as well. I purchased two so I can extend Romeo's play area as well as create different setups so he won't get bored.

Home Depot has a plastic mesh that I think is for fencing (it is black and is a tiny mesh)...it comes in a roll. I put that on my gates with tie wraps.


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I have gates with the vertical bars. I bought corrugated plastic sheets at lowes and cut them to cover the gate and attached with zip ties. It is a lot cheaper than the plexiglass and easier to cut and put holes in. I found it over by the Plexiglass and glass. My puppy has started to chew the corner of it but she can't get through it which was the purpose. Be really careful with gates or x pens with small openings. When one of my girls was in her first heat she jumped/climbed out of her x pen and caught her leg on the top and broke her ulna and radius. It cost us $3500 to fix. So be careful.

Yes, this! Imagine my surprise when I can home one day to find her running around the house, dragging my laundry everywhere. I couldn't believe she could just the gate. Got the second one that day!

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This is just what I was going to suggest....I made mine....I went to Lowes, had them cut me a piece of plexi-glass the size of the baby gate, drilled 4 holes in it, one in each corner, big enough to run one of those plastic electric cord/ cable ties through the hold,........I put the plexiglass against the baby gate, fitting the door space from side to side, attached it to thew baby gate with the plastic ties at each corner, and VOILA! no can climbie or go thru the bars!.....and can still see out!...

Just saw this post and our 10 week puppy climbed of her Iris play pen in the middle of the night. I had been concerned about her drinking so I left her water out and her crate open last night thinking she'd be ok cause she was still confined to her pen. Around 4:30 am I hear her and think.....she sounds alot closer than her playpen so I get up to check and sure enough she's at the top of the stairs. Sooooo thankful she didn't hurt herself. I checked her pen and she did pee and poop on the pee pad in her playpen (WAHOO) but I didn't see the gate open or any way she could have climbed under it. I put her back...waited a few minutes as she really wanted back out and sure enough she begins to climb the pen. WOW! She's only a little over 2 lbs so never expected this. I checked online and Iris does carry a mesh cover but the reveiws said it was attached by velcro, not a tight fight and their puppies still escaped. Not sure what to do but need something ASAP cause we also may need to leave her for 5 hours soon for a funeral. Wondering if there is a better way to secure the mesh cover if I purchased it since it's probably the better fit. If it's lose, being mesh I would have to think there's a way to "tie" it down. Any ideas? Thanks! Good luck Scopeland....

Oh dear, I cannot believe your pup scaled that gate! Romeo does not like to be confined but he's never tried to "escape" that playpen. I've seen some great portable playpens at PetSmart but they are expensive, and in my opinion, not at all sturdy.

I'm always amazed when someone recommends this particular pen. The evenly spaced horizontal bars are like ladders. ZoE scaled this at 10 weeks old. I wouldn't recommend this particular pen for anything other than the most docile lazy pup imagineable.....certainly not for an climber.

Thanks for all the suggestions! I wish the pen would work, but it's not tall enough. The one we had was 28 inches high & he was up and over in no time at all!!

My newest little guy jumped our baby gate daily...in fact, several times a day. It took us awhile to realize it as he could just as easily scale it to get back in to our mud room. Little brat. We had one of the gates with a bunch of the circle holes in it, and when he couldn't jump it, he would simply climb it.

So, we looked around and finally found an extra tall gate (to help with the scaling issues) that had vertical slats and no horizontal ones (to help with the climbing):

The First Years Extra Tall Decor Gate - The First Years - Babies"R"Us

He's no longer able to scale it, making me worry less about him breaking his legs. In other news, he now eats all my baseboards instead. You win some, you lose some!

Oh..and we're on the lucky end. Neither of our boys can get through. We had thought of zip tying some snow fence to it had that been an issue. Perhaps that would work?

Yep sbgooljar! Our little girl is a Houdini! LOL We finally figured out that she was scaling the playpen to the top of her crate and then would try to get out. I went out and bought a plastic storage container the size of her crate and put it on top securing it with a bungee. She hasn't been able to escape since! I'd like to find something a little bigger than this that she wouldn't be able to escape that I don't have to put a lid on. Any ideas?

We put him in our laundry room during the day, so was looking for an escape-proof gate. I've got a 36-inch mesh gate ordered from Walmart. I'll keep you posted!

We have 2 of these. One with clear panels and one with frosted. I like the one with the frosted panel the best because it quickly adjusts (with one hand once you get used to using it) to whatever doorway/hallway I want to put it in. The one I have that has clear plastic takes a little more effort to resize. I bought both of them in the baby section of the Navy Exchange, so I am guessing that they are available in places like Target or Walmart.