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01-15-2008, 07:44 AM | #1 |
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| Yard Suggestions for Yorkie Safety We have a wooden fenced in back yard...The builder had it installed when they built our house..... The fence is perfectly straight but of course, the ground is not....We are planning on having a yard put in in the spring....My question, What can we use or what do you use to keep the little ones safe in the yard so that they can not make any escapes....Some parts of the yard are even with the fence but there are places that they could just walk under with no effort.... I was thinking like maybe concrete landscape border pieces like you use on a flower bed or maybe even bricks...But hubby thought brick ....A neighbor suggested landscape timbers??? not too sure about that.... I would want to keep the border even when the yard is put in- just for safety.... Do any of you have any suggestions? Thanks in advance Joyce
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01-15-2008, 05:30 PM | #2 |
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| any suggestions?
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01-15-2008, 05:38 PM | #3 |
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| What I am doing in the spring is installing a fine guage wire fence (like a garden small animal fence) underneath my chain link. My ground also has shifted under the bottom of my fence..and Widdy is a digger..so to keep everyone safe I'm going to get the smaller fence (It's only about 2 feet tall) and use ground rods to anchor it to the ground, then staple it to the fence up above. You can't really see it, because it's a finer wire. Make sure it's not large enough to get any body part stuck in, tiny squares is what I'll be using. Joy
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01-15-2008, 05:41 PM | #4 |
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| I just have a really tiny backyard with a wooden fence. I used bricks to line the bottom of the fence where it was possible for her to get through. She is NEVER allowed outside without me there though, and we normally don't go out there much anyway as I walk her on a harness and leash around our complex. I've always thought that when I have a house with a larger yard on day that I will have the fence built to where it goes like 6in to 1 foot underground so that other animals have trouble digging holes under the fence. Chicken wire or bricks is something you could look into also
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01-15-2008, 05:47 PM | #5 |
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| Since Yorkies are such diggers maybe the timber won't work - wouldn't they try to dig thru the wood? You may have to go with the brick or garden stone as long as there's not enough space in between to dig thru I think. Sorry, I'm not an expert on this. Just a gardener and I was thinking the same thing when dreaming about warmer weather days (it's so cold and snowy here in Michigan) and what I'll need to do this summer.
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01-15-2008, 06:28 PM | #6 |
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| These are some good ideas...Thanks.... The brick layers that bricked our home left us a pallet of brick.....I was thinking of using them as the border of the fence...Kind of tilting them at a 90 degree angle(I think)....To kind of keep it decorative....But hubby frowned on this...So then I thought of the flower bed border stones....But I still like the brick idea...I think it would be cheaper than the stone.... I do like the idea of the little fence inside of the bigger fence....Our long term plan is to have shrubs all around the yard.....So the wire fencing wouldn't show.... And I would have a secure yard.... Also, The boys would never be outside without me out there..... Joyce
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01-15-2008, 06:57 PM | #8 |
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| fence Since you already have the fence, this may seem like overkill, but, I had an Invisible Fence put it. It's the best. The pup needs to be at least 5 pounds and 6 mo. old to train, but it works fantastic. We live out of town, no neighbors within miles. We are out with the dogs in case a animal would come in, but, it works really nice. |
01-15-2008, 08:08 PM | #9 | |
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01-16-2008, 05:29 AM | #10 | |
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What I did for the fences I have, one for the labs(they DIG up everything!) and one for the yorkies. I have chainlink fencing but this will work for any type of metal fencing, I get long metal tent stakes and hammer them into the ground every few feet along the fence. It holds the fence down and they by the time they are able to dig far enough down to get past the tent stakes you will have found it and fix it. I've used tent stakes for the past ten years and so far so good.
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01-16-2008, 05:43 AM | #11 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member | Dig a trench several inches (1/2 foot) deep next to your fence. Take fine mesh bird wire or chicken wire attach (staple or tack)the top edge of the wire to the bottom of your wood fence. Then bury the bottom edge of the wire in the trench. Backfill with dirt, plant shrubs, flowers etc., in front of the trench. This will prevent them from digging under. And, as the ground shifts and would expose new openings between the fence and ground, the wire prevents them from slipping under a fence. This way nothing shows, we've done this and it works great.
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01-17-2008, 01:15 AM | #13 |
Lovin' 2 Girls Donating Member | One of the training tips we've gotten in obedience class from Abigail's trainer is: For digging, fill the hole with dog's feces. They will not dig there, again. So...seems you could dig a trench along the fence line, and fill with dog poo - and, of course, backfill.
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