Check your fences
 

I wanted to remind everyone to check there fences sense the weather is getting nicer. We just had a scare here. With it being such a nice day and Callie loving to be outside she was sunning on the deck on a towel I laid out for her after I noticed she was enjoying the weather. Well we have a doggie door and a decent sized fenced in yard with a nice deck. Well if I don see her or hear her tags for a few minutes I will check on her (where i sit at the table with my computer looks out into the yard so I can see her most of the time) I hadnt seen her for maybe 4 or 5 minutes or heard her so I got up and she wasn't on the towel on the deck so I looked around the down stairs still no Callie, called up the stairs and listened for her tags still nothing, called her name out the back door still could not hear her or her tags, stepped onto the deck looking around franticly then I hear the jingle of the tags and they dont sound like they are in the fence so I look outside the fence and there she is checking out the big tree between us and our neighbors! I yell to my grandmother Callie is out of the fence while running to the gate in my slippers through mud open the gate and call her and she come running to me then goes running into the house to my grandmother who locks her in the house. I checked the other gate and it was shut which means she got out of the fence by a hole. Im sick and now shaken up so when my grandpa gets back from the store hes gonna do a fence check and figure out where she got out. It had to have been a pretty decent sized hole because she a teapot and there is no dirt or anything on her. So every one who has fences sense the weather is getting nice you might want to do a check of your fence.

Oh my gosh, what a scare you must have had. I would have been frantic too. So, glad Callie was such a good girl and didn't run or anything. Glad is back in, safe and sound.
Thanks for the reminder, going to check out my fence today.

Wow you had a scare. Thanks for the advice for everyone to check their fences. I have a retaining wall that my fence goes into so Im glad for that

Thanks for the reminder...it is an imortant one. Happy to hear that Callie is safe and sound. These yorkies do love to explore :rolleyes:

I am so glad everything is ok. Great reminder to us all.

I'm so happy Callie is safe and sound. I hope you can find where she got out.

:eek: oh my gosh how scary :confused: thankyou for the warning , glad everything is ok :) love jill n poppy xx :aimeeyork

Scary! It could have been the gate door, too. Yesterday, I was playing basketball outside of my dads fenced in yard and Jackson nudged the gate open (I hadn't latched the lock all the way) and came walking right out of the fence... the little stinker! And it's a pretty heavy door too and a nice built fence but all he had to do was push through! He can't stand to be far away from me. So glad Callie is safe!

We found where she got out. The front of our fence on both sides of the house are wood and that is also where the gates are, well when we have trees taken down, or when we got the roof redone they have to take a panel of the fence out to get there truck through and I guess it wasn't put back together well and had opened slightly and Callie walked right through. Then walked all the way around the front of the house to the other gate where I found her. I am sooooooo glad no one was walking there dogs at that time because Callie more then likely would have ran over in the street to say hi and one of the dogs that gets walked a few times a day his owner has told us is not a dog friendly dog and Callie has never meet an unfriendly dog before so she has no fear of any dogs. She seems worn out now and is enjoying a long nap.

I'm glad you found her escape route.:)

I have to fix fence also they just run over it right now because of the snow drifts. But after next week the snow should all be gone :) Thank goodness I live on an acreage and they do not go any where just to the other door. But they think they are darn cool.

Thanks for the tip I will be sure to check all fencing before mine are out in the nice weather:)

Well Callie is a teapot and thankfuly to heavy for a hawk

Thank goodness you found her quickly. I'm constantly checking my fence and gates. My new gardener has left my side gates open 3 times, and I told him if it happens again he will be my EX-gardener.

But Friday morning the tsunami ripped part of my fence and gate off into the ocean, so I can't let the dogs out until I get it replaced.

We just had the neighbor replace two sections their agressive dog broke before they moved...and they failed to replace the third section...so thank you for the reminder...luckily the new neighbors have a friendly but yappy lil dog there.
We have a temporary plywood board nailed to it as we couldn't pour cement for the post in the rain season with the ground saying so moist. really this reminder came at a great time...even though I do the potty pick up check after the kids dog poop patrol weekly I have the fence repair on the "long list" and needed a reason o get it on the to do now one.

Stinking tsunami! :mad::thumbdown

We missed it in my immediate area,well besides at the beaches but it thrashed coastal houses, and the small harbor a bit north...
:(
Don't forget to check the soil depth and stability before refencing...as I'm sure you know ;) :thumbup:

I have a problem with my little guy digging under the fence, so I can't leave him alone in the yard for very long, he's only 5 lbs so it really don't take much of a hole for him to escape. :(
Would getting him neutered make him want to get out and wander less?

Thank you for the advice... and glad that Callie is ok!!!

Might help especially if he's smelling a female in heat look into fence barriers for dogs that dIg too. but supervision of such a small dog at all times outdoors seems best to me.

never alone
 

the only place winston is allowed alone is our screened in porch. We have 2 acres but no fence. We had the fence taken down a few years ago but even with it Winston is so small he could have gotten out. My big worry here in KY. is hawks. I was getting ready to take the little guy out for one of our walks and my husband came in and said, "I wouldn't do that right now, there are not one but 2 pairs of hawks flying around above our house." Well that ended that, we waited until later when they were gone. I have lost many red birds because of these hawks. They are everywhere in KY.
:(

Great reminder!
 

This is such a good reminder...especially this time of the year. We are sunny and in the mid 70s here in south Georgia and Lucy has been in our fenced in yard about 5 times already this morning to sniff, carry sticks around, bask in the sun, etc. But I'm like Donna...with all the talk of hawks and our own sighting of hunting hawks in our neighborhood, Lucy isn't allowed out alone. We will be checking our fence row, for sure. I'm so glad Callie is ok.

Jeannie