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Maggie Cummings
Guest
Here is exactly why I have a rule about keeping the gates to my yard
closed at all times. I have 2 gates to my back yard, chain link fence
and chain link gates. So the rule is keeping the gates closed and locked
at all times. Bob has been contained in his shed for months now and I
have noticed signs of him being restless, banging around in his shed and
actually ramming the doggie door and the door that I use. It was 50
degrees today and it hasn't rained in a couple of days so I thought Bob
could go out for a bit. He's big enough to know when to go back in to
warm up. His pen is made with cinderblock stacked 3 high with wooden
stakes inside to hold them in place. Now mind you he hasn't been out for
4 months or more...so I open the doggie door and watch for a minute as
Bob comes out and practically jumps in the air and clicked his heels
together with glee. I haven't been well lately so I go back in and lay
down. 3 hours or so go by as I am watching NASCAR practice runs. I go to
check on Bob and he is gone! I look in the shed, nope, check all around
his pen, nope. So you know I am starting to panic because I know he has
been tort-napped. I look all around my yard which is not that hard to
do, no Bob. So I wheel around to run up the stairs to call the cops as
he comes walking over to me looking for his evening snack. He'd been
moushing around in the poop corner, where I throw his poop. OMG! I
cannot even tell you the relief I felt! One part of his pen is a kind of
a tight 'u' shaped. Tight enough that he can't turn around in it, he has
to back out. Evidently he knocked off the top block and then simply
climbed over the fallen block, over the two blocks that were left in
place and went around the rest of the yard munching. I don't know how
long he was out of his pen, but I cannot tell you how glad I am that I
keep the gates closed!!! And how mad I am at him from scaring me that
bad!!!
Bob is exactly like a misbehaving teenager always in trouble. The older
he gets the smarter I see he is...
closed at all times. I have 2 gates to my back yard, chain link fence
and chain link gates. So the rule is keeping the gates closed and locked
at all times. Bob has been contained in his shed for months now and I
have noticed signs of him being restless, banging around in his shed and
actually ramming the doggie door and the door that I use. It was 50
degrees today and it hasn't rained in a couple of days so I thought Bob
could go out for a bit. He's big enough to know when to go back in to
warm up. His pen is made with cinderblock stacked 3 high with wooden
stakes inside to hold them in place. Now mind you he hasn't been out for
4 months or more...so I open the doggie door and watch for a minute as
Bob comes out and practically jumps in the air and clicked his heels
together with glee. I haven't been well lately so I go back in and lay
down. 3 hours or so go by as I am watching NASCAR practice runs. I go to
check on Bob and he is gone! I look in the shed, nope, check all around
his pen, nope. So you know I am starting to panic because I know he has
been tort-napped. I look all around my yard which is not that hard to
do, no Bob. So I wheel around to run up the stairs to call the cops as
he comes walking over to me looking for his evening snack. He'd been
moushing around in the poop corner, where I throw his poop. OMG! I
cannot even tell you the relief I felt! One part of his pen is a kind of
a tight 'u' shaped. Tight enough that he can't turn around in it, he has
to back out. Evidently he knocked off the top block and then simply
climbed over the fallen block, over the two blocks that were left in
place and went around the rest of the yard munching. I don't know how
long he was out of his pen, but I cannot tell you how glad I am that I
keep the gates closed!!! And how mad I am at him from scaring me that
bad!!!
Bob is exactly like a misbehaving teenager always in trouble. The older
he gets the smarter I see he is...