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09-14-2010, 07:16 PM | #1 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Delaware
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| Uuuggggghhhhh! I thought I found the perfect escape proof ex-pen. Freakin Houdini has manage to do it again. I've had this soft-sided mesh ex-pen now for about 8 months. I finally thought that I have found something that Brandi could not escape. I bragged about this ex-pen and how escape proof it was. I even recommended it to other YT members . I got home from work today and guess who was waiting for me? She was standing there with her little tail wagging a mile a minute, she was so proud of herself. And of course she left me a present. Is there anything out there that my little Houdini can't escape? I've already tried a crate, she knows how to open it. Baby Gates....forget it, she will just climb over them. Don't want to stack them because then I would be to scare she would hurt herself. Once she knows how to escape, it takes her less than a minute to get out. I timed her. She's good . I am seriously thinking about letting her free roam or at least confining her to one room. She doesn't have separation anxiety all she does is sleep most of the day. The only reason I keep her in the expen is because it has been a struggle to train her to go on her potty pads. She just won't do it. She will only use them if she is confined to her ex-pen and she won't go anywhere near her ex-pen on her own to use the potty pads because she is afraid she will be confined. For the most part, she pottys outside. We have a potty schedule that we follow everyday around the same time. It's those hours I am at work is where the problem is. I live alone so there is no one there to take her out to potty during the day and my little one won't hold it until I get home. I don't free feed her so there is no food in her ex-pen but there is water. I know that having water in her ex-pen will cause her to go potty during the day but I am one of those pet owners that believes water should be available to them at all times. Any suggestions? Thanks |
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09-14-2010, 07:44 PM | #2 | |
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09-14-2010, 07:54 PM | #3 |
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| Have you tried to use baby gates that have no vertical bars? The horizontal only ones? Did your little Houdini chew out of her expen?
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09-15-2010, 03:04 AM | #4 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member | I have one that can not be contained. She will climb a 6 foot pen. I put her in a create once and when I came back she had blood down her face where she had jumped so much and bumped her head on the top of the crate. This was no little crate it was one for a saint benard..lol. Only thing I can do with her is lock her in my bedroom..she is not happy but safe. My door is scratched all up but I will take it rather than her hurt herself. I don't have to do it much but there are times I need to separate them.
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09-15-2010, 04:46 AM | #5 |
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09-15-2010, 04:55 AM | #6 |
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| I have a climber and my x-pen has a metal lid that locks on top. It is a pain in the rear end but I feel safer when I go out with them in their. I have them all potty trained but because they are still young I want them where I can watch them so they don't get into anything they are not suppose. These little guys are like magnets to anything that falls to the floor they will try to eat it. For the daytime I purchased a tall vertical walk thru gate that is easy for me and my husband to use. All I have to do is lift up and it swings both directions $54. at toys r us. It's funny my tiny one walks right through the bars she just a little over 2 lbs. and my other two who are 5 lbs and 5.5 lbs just stare like that's not fair. |
09-15-2010, 05:12 AM | #7 |
YT 500 Club Member | my sienna walks right through the bars to we have taken small throw rugs and weaved them through the bars this worked until she learned how to climb them about 5 secs later we also have a large extension gate that she just pokes through to what ive done for the little one is put a bulky jacket on her she cant squeeze threw eventually maybe she will learn
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09-15-2010, 05:17 AM | #8 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Houston, Texas USA
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| I, totally, had the same situation w/Apple!!! I finally, at about 5 or 6 months old, left her in the living room/dining room/entry hall w/the bedroom doors closed.....I would throw the one circuit breaker, where there were cords plugged in ie. t.v. computer...I never could pad train her, to this day...She has to go outside...I did have to change out carpet for laminate, and come home, at lunch to let her out....She, actually, did fine...Oh, and I also put pillows around all the furniture, so she wouldn't hurt her legs jumping up and down...Good luck w/houdini, I've got one too |
09-15-2010, 05:28 AM | #9 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Brandon, SD, United States
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| We have a metal exercise pen with a lid that locks on the top. Both of mine could escape before the lid, but afterward they both stayed put. |
09-15-2010, 05:40 AM | #10 |
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| What keeps you from allowing her to free roam, or to just limit her access to one room with a door closed? Separation anxiety, age, potty-training? I know that I am always nervous that Levi would escape from or hurt himself trying to escape from an x-pen or a crate. What works for us is allowing him to stay out in my bedroom with the door shut while I am gone. He may scratch at the door a little, but I haven't really noticed any damage and I like knowing that he can move around freely, take naps in different spots, play, etc. I leave water bowls out all day too. I'd rather Levi have a little accident than to be without water while I am at school or work.
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09-15-2010, 06:54 AM | #11 |
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| She doesn't have separation anxeity issues but she does have potty issues. She is 9 yrs old but she is a rescue I've only had for 2 years. She refuses to use the potty pads outside of the expen. The problem is she won't go anywhere near her expen on her own. I leave it open for her but she associates it with confinement. It would be nice if I knew how to get rid of that negative association so when she is home alone, she knows to go to her expen to use her potty pad. I keep her own a really strict potty schedule, and the only time when she has accidents is obviously when I am not home. Because I live alone there is no one there to let her out to potty. |
09-15-2010, 07:13 AM | #12 |
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| My Yorkies are pretty good with staying in their confined space so I'm not sure if this would work with a jumper but it might help with a climber. I have a play pen for them that's made out of mesh panels. I got it at PetCo. Hope it helps. Here's a link. Precision Pet Soft Side Exercise Pen for Pets at PETCO |
09-15-2010, 10:27 AM | #13 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: cliffside park, nj, usa
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| petco and petsmart have metal playpen; this should be escape free.
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09-15-2010, 10:38 AM | #14 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Charlottesville, Virgina, US
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| Fynn hasn't figured out how to climb yet and I'm really, really hoping that he doesn't. He's good on his little feet on the floor. He doesn't need to climb anywhere. Right now, he's good with just a baby gate. I say this now and then go home to fine him waiting for me at the door. Ugh. Little stinkers!
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