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Hi. I have a 2 year old Alaskan Malamute. I looked after my sister's dog for a while a few weeks ago and unfortunately it taught my dog how to escape and the joys of what lay beyond my fence. I have spent a fortune on re-fencing, invisible fencing etc but he keeps finding new ways to get out. I don't want to chain him up or kennel him so have decided to rehome him. The shooting season starts soon and they shoot all around me including 100 yards away and I am very concerned that he may get out then. I think part of the problem is that he is bored when I go out for the day etc. He is good with children and other dogs but not so good with cats. Can anyone help please?
 
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Thanks very much blackcob for the link but it says no postings for dogs for sale/wanted etc? Any other ideas/links?

Naryafluffy - I am in Kent - miles from you!
 
What type of fencing do you have??? Is it grill?? Post and lattice?? Have you tried box wire?

Seems a drastic reaction to your dog managing to get through your fencing. We had an entire Gordon Setter who at one point could escape like houdini, we just couldnt keep him in. We redone the fencing in 8ft panel fencing and that put an end to him getting out altogether.

Might be worth doing something like what we did high and solid no holes to make larger and obvious if he tried to chew it :)
 
I have 8 foot total height weld mesh battoned against 3' trellis on the 4' gates and 10 foot deer fencing elsewhere! He is climbing the mesh on the gates. But if I board them then they are too heavy to open. I have investigated steel security gates and roller bars etc but they are all prohibitively expensive.

When I say 'garden' I mean 4 acres of paddocks/garden etc including a heated kennel, automatic waterer and the companion of two other dogs and various horses.

I have had him from a puppy and he has never even walked out of an open gate so I think if he were to move home he may well settle again. The rest of the farm is a very interesting place to escape to and there are sheep and pheasants and a livery yard.
 
Run an electric wire around the top of the fence.
A tub of insulators is only about £20 and they can be left in place.

Have you contacted his breeder?
 
You should contact his breeder. Almost all pedigree puppies are sold with a contract saying that if you need to re-home the dog for any reason at any point in its life you must inform them and they must be involved in deciding the new home and/ or take the dog back.

It is one of the responsibilities you take on when you breed a litter that you are responsible for all puppies for their life and the Kennel Club endorses this.
 
Can't you restrict him to a smaller area ? I don't get it sorry and as others have said why is it allowed out to roam around 4 acres when you are not there ?
 
Can you not leave him in a house/kennel when you are not there = No escaping dog = Problem should be solved?
Is there more to his behaviour that is forcing you to consider rehoming?
 
Lady La La said:
Can you not leave him in a house/kennel when you are not there = No escaping dog = Problem should be solved?
Is there more to his behaviour that is forcing you to consider rehoming?
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this. surely being in a crate or even small enclosed dog run is better than him escaping (and cheaper!!). Without meaning to be rude, how is someone else going to manage this problem without putting him in a crate or similar? and if the problem is that easy to solve why dont you just do this? He is your dog, you bought him, you chose him... its a bit unfair to get rid because of this.
 
MrVelvet said:
this. surely being in a crate or even small enclosed dog run is better than him escaping (and cheaper!!). Without meaning to be rude, how is someone else going to manage this problem without putting him in a crate or similar? and if the problem is that easy to solve why dont you just do this? He is your dog, you bought him, you chose him... its a bit unfair to get rid because of this.
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I have to say I have 2 high scalers, they can clear well over 8ft.........this was the reason I KEPT them, because the sheer stress going through my head of what would happen if I homed them and the new owner was to lax and left them out unsupervised for to long (they would be gonners) staying here meant I could make sure that would NEVER happen. I could have done without more dogs like a hole in the head, but needs must for some dogs.
I never bought them as pups either they where both rescues here for assessment and short term housing:rolleyes:
I would be sectioning of a smaller area (as Lady La La suggests) and kennel him when unsupervised, pave the floor and mesh the roof and leave him alot to occupy him, and keep him next to your residing dogs (he could/will escape just as easy in the hands of someone else.

Mine don't even try and jump anymore, but then I would never go out and leave them, they are only outside when im about.
 
I had a large pen built around my kennels with 6ft weld mesh that my dogs go out in when I am at work - my dogs don't escape but you could easily roof it with netting if they did.

My collie is also an escape artist (when not in the pen) and she seems to constantly find somewhere to get out, she will even jump onto the kennel roof (from outside the pen) then leap onto the woodshed roof, then jump down onto the beech hedge and wriggle out through a hole! She is that determined to get out and go over the lane to see the farm dogs :mad: But it is manageable because all the time I am home I keep her in sight and all the time I am not, she is in the pen! :)

It wouldn't even cross my mind to rehome one of my dogs unless unforeseen circumstances absolutely forced me to - an escape artist wouldn't be one of them.
 
CAYLA said:
I have to say I have 2 high scalers, they can clear well over 8ft.........this was the reason I KEPT them, because the sheer stress going through my head of what would happen if I homed them and the new owner was to lax and left them out unsupervised for to long (they would be gonners) staying here meant I could make sure that would NEVER happen. I could have done without more dogs like a hole in the head, but needs must for some dogs.
I never bought them as pups either they where both rescues here for assessment and short term housing:rolleyes:
I would be sectioning of a smaller area (as Lady La La suggests) and kennel him when unsupervised, pave the floor and mesh the roof and leave him alot to occupy him, and keep him next to your residing dogs (he could/will escape just as easy in the hands of someone else.

Mine don't even try and jump anymore, but then I would never go out and leave them, they are only outside when im about.
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I can well believe it!! Im just saying you could get away with a smaller fence if you had some sort of roof, and that surely you'd explore these avenues before getting rid of said dog. I dont think I got accross what I wanted to say properly... but this^^ lol
 
I must say I would rather re-fence with 10 feet high fencing and pee off the neighbours than ever consider re-homing my little escape artist (who has now dug under the new huge fencing so I've had to dig in stock type fencing round vunerable areas-yet more expense.

It would be a lot more straightforward to simply build a run. :confused:
 
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