Fence Defence

[LoganBerry092]

My 3-yr old Lurcher has inconvenient tendency to jump at our garden perimeter fence (6ft) and attempt to bark aggressively at passers-by. The fence borders a busy walkway, favoured by dog walkers, but also mothers on the school run and in the evenings, drunken revelers. Needless to say it's busy.

He is not at all an aggressive animal, very placid around strangers and familiar individuals alike - but as soon as you get him in the back garden he makes a beeline for the fence.

Has anybody got any tips for deterring this kind of behaviour??

 

[Dry Rot]

Maybe a second internal fence, so increasing the distance between the dog and passer by?

Konrad Lorenz mentions this behaviour in one of his books. He relates how a dog would appear to be savage so long as the fence intervened. The dog would run parallel to a walker on the other side of the fence, growling and barking. But the fence was only so long. The dog would come to the end of the fenced section, then realise there was no fence, stop barking and look rather sheepish and try to be friendly!

Sorry, no use at all but nonetheless interesting.

 

[LoganBerry092]

Or maybe take down the fence completely...hmmmm...