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02-06-2008, 01:36 PM | #1 |
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| Yorkie Proofing a Fence/ Fence Nightmare So recently my neighbor got a new chihuahua for Xmas. This lady already has three dogs and she is one of those people that leaves the dogs outside most of the day/doesn't watch the dogs when she lets them out. Not my kind of lady really...but...until the chihuahua came there was never a problem. I live in a rental house, the fence is all new on two sides of me but the fence on the side the neighbor lives on is all rotten and falling apart. My dogs Skunky, Momo, and Mochi never seemed to care or try to dig under/tear holes in the fence at all, but since the neighbor got the new dog things changed. The new dog barks at my dogs all the time. It really frazzles and riles up my dogs. They spend the whole day running up and down the fence barking at it. Recently Mochi (my rescue male yorkie) decided that he has had enough and started to chew through the fence to get to the neighbors dog. Well it started to chew through the fence too, resulting in TONS of holes that the neighbor has done nothing about on her side. The other day I found Mochi IN her yard after I let him out to go pee and turned my back for just one minute to answer a phone call inside. There was a huge hole in the fence big enough for ALL my dogs to get through. So me and my boyfriend went and dropped about $100.00 on some heavy mesh/metal fencing and reinforced my whole side of the fence with it. This is the high grade stuff not chicken wire, and it's holes are small and safe for my doggies. The neighbor did NOTHING and still left all her holes in the fence (the most she did was throw a brick over one on her side). All was fine until today when I heard my dogs barking when I let them out to pee. The Chihaiuha next door was IN my yard and suddenly my yorkies were both in the neighbors yard. Mochi and the neighbors dog had both dug a hole on each side of the fence and were now running lose between the two yards. They dug clean under the wire fencing on my side and under the rotten holey wooden fence too. It's muddy out here in Houston right now so it's EASY for them to dig holes. What should I do to reinforce the fence? I rent my house and my landlord refuses to drop the $500 or so dollars it will cost to replace the whole fence section. PLUS one would think the lady next door would want to fix her own darn fence but she is one of those people that just puts their dogs outside and doesn't seem to care, so now I am going to be stuck to find the solution. Any tips on yorkie and chihuahua proofing my fence? Should I just demand that the landlord fixes the fence? She says that it's the neighbors problem not hers (all the yards share fences in my neighborhood which I think it's totally retarded). In all my old houses the fences were double- meaning the neighbors had their own fence and I had my own fence. Any tips on fixing the fence would be much appreciated...I was thinking of putting big wooden two by fours across the bottom of the whole fence section and digging a little trench to get them down into the ground some so it' s harder to dig under. My Mochi is apparently a little digger though and I am not sure even this will keep him from digging holes...
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02-06-2008, 01:57 PM | #2 |
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| update... Just to irritate extra apparently the neighbor now fixed the recently dug hole by sitting a flower pot in front of it....what a bad doggie mommy.
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02-06-2008, 01:58 PM | #3 |
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| I feel your pain. I too share a fence in a rental with a neighbor who neglects her dogs and the fence is bad. So I did as you did with the mesh fencing and yes the dogs got UNDER that to. In desperation we put an old carpeting down the fence. Its on top of the meshing and layered 3 times thick so they cant dig under or move it. I doubt its clean but they stay off it and away from the fence. I bet this really doesnt help you since I doubt you have old carpeting laying around. But for me desperate times called for desperate measures. I just keep praying for the neighbor to move. |
02-06-2008, 02:00 PM | #4 | |
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02-06-2008, 02:06 PM | #5 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member | we rent also & we put up our on fence since its our dogs & i want them safe & it makes our yard look nicer |
02-06-2008, 02:10 PM | #6 |
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| When my checkbook finally recovers from Xmas expenses I might have to do that, although my landlord doesn't like the idea, it's not her dogs and not her business. right now I need a quick fix though.
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02-06-2008, 03:03 PM | #7 |
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| I know it doesn't look great but a quick fix we used one time. We put logs (like you burn in the fireplace) along the bottom of the fence...pushed up really close to the fence. We had a blue heeler who loved to dig out and this stopped him.
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02-06-2008, 03:09 PM | #8 |
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| That might be an easier option for us, we'll look into it!
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02-06-2008, 03:25 PM | #9 |
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| We put up wood fencing, but we bought rabbit cage wire, cut it down the middle, dug a trench a foot deep at the base of the fence, placed the wire that foot down and stapeled it to the bottom of the wood fence. We did this because we had a skunk that kept digging under the fence at night. It worked to keep any more digging from going on. |
02-06-2008, 03:38 PM | #10 |
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| Edited cause i had the same idea as yorkiedaze. Last edited by sullysmum; 02-06-2008 at 03:42 PM. |
02-06-2008, 03:50 PM | #11 |
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| you can buy landscape timbers for about 3.00 and put it down on the bottom along the fence line.
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02-06-2008, 03:51 PM | #12 | |
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These are some solutions I have used. Hopefully one of them will be doable for you. You can use tent stakes or shishkebob skewers (I used 18 inch metal skewers shaped with a round end that (bent so that it was not quite a complete circle). I hooked the round end over the bottom wires of my chain link fence then stuck the skewers the 18 inches into the ground. You have to put them pretty close together though, about 4 inches apart or closer. That worked pretty good, except when the ground got really soupy and soft, then they could just push them aside and go through. In my dog yard to stop the digging in general and around the fence I covered the ground with plastic mesh that's kind of like chicken wire. I used landscaping staples to hold it down. The grass grows right through it and eventually you can't see it. It has worked really well. How about putting some of that or chicken wire or plastic mesh flat on the ground right next to the fence and out about six to eight inches. Be sure to secure it with landscaping staples or something. Then whenever they try to dig they hit the chicken wire and can't do it. I prefer the plastic, because I was afraid the chicken wire might eventually rust and break and then there would be sharp edges, that is why I used the plastic. I bought it at Walmart in the gardening section. It comes in a roll. Here's a link where someone used it on their balcony and posted pictures, so you can see what it looks like. http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/sho...stic+mesh%2 2 I have also posted pictures here http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/sho...c+chicken+wire Hope this helps!
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02-06-2008, 03:55 PM | #13 | |
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02-06-2008, 04:52 PM | #14 |
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| suggestion I saw this on a tv show to keep out snakes, might work for neighbors dog too. Dig a trench along fench and put your mesh fencing down into trench. Fill trench back in with soil, or you could use a bit of that quick set cement then put soil back on top. Staple or nail end of mesh at top onto the existing fence. Hope that helps.
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