If you left your garden gate/driveway open, would your dog stay?

If you left your garden gate/driveway open, would your dog stay?

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Gotta admit, ours are very good - they'll stay in the driveway (we have no gate on) and they regularly are allowed to play in the front garden (under supervision! We have real grass out there and only plastic grass in the back) The GSD won't even bother trying to wander off, the Goldie will do an SAS style belly sneak to the very end of the drive way and lie with her paws JUST inside...!
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Im pretty sure my dog would leg to the park which is 2mins from my house :p But if the gate was to be open and i told her to stay then she would stay but not if left to her own devices!! I once came home from school to find no dog in the back garden, went outside and called her ... no sign of the dog, so I opened the back gate whilst nearly having a heart attack, and luckly she was there. She had broken out of her pen and somehow opened the gate :o
 
my front garden is fenced but the back fence is just plain wire, so my dog regularly sneaks off in to the neighbours garden. that's if i don't keep an eye on her when she's out there.
I always go, clean up if she's done her business and apologise. :)
 
lexiedhb said:
Does Abe cook you dinner and mow the lawn too? :D
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We're working on it :D

No seriously though we have no fence on our front yard and we grill out there and have no sidewalk so he had to be trained never to step of the lawn. Otherwise he would have to spend his time inside because i can't supervise a long line all the time.
 
My dogs would shoot out like bullets!

Flyn would be off to find the nearest landrover/truck/quad bike that he could jump in and wait to be taken somewhere exciting (and he will wait all day if necessary ;) )....... Rosie is straight over the lane to the farm to terrorize the neighbour's dogs (and the neighbours) :eek: Toby would stop at the end of the path and then start worrying :rolleyes: then he'd run back and try and find me to tell me that the other two are being naughty! He's such a snitch :D
 
It's how our girls got knocked down a few years ago - gate blew down in a storm and they both headed straight to the PARK (across a main road :() luckily they both made full recoveries!
 
CC - that is what worries me constantly. My own garden is securely fenced and they can't get out but if the gate is open onto the path then its a direct short few strides onto the lane. In fact just yesterday I got Mark to put in a new gate post and hang the gate at the end of that path - just need to fix a latch now but you certainly can't rely on people to shut it.

If there is any old truck or LR parked outside, Flyn will jump in and I just know that oneday, someone is going to drive off with him - albeit probably unknowingly :(
 
Brig would pop to visit the neighbour, wouldn't go far, would soon be back unless distracted. Zak and Bear (just how many Bears are there?!) would be off and playing, totally ignoring the traffic.:eek:
 
Both would go over the park (two strides away...literally) but Jack would come home.....I used to have Misty in a field that adjoined it but at the far end and in the rain he would get fed up and take himself home. Quila I'm not sure about. She's so friendly she'd wander off with someone.
 
Some of the ones in the past might, Evie would stay about whilst I was there unless anything walked past (person, cat, dog, rabbit) or cycled past - obiously just person not furry animal on a bike.
As the early morning walkers from the bbq will confirm our road is quite busy so I make sure the gate is always shut.
 
I needed two options:rolleyes::)

Sweep would stay at home - he has before when there were builders here and they had the gates open - he would tootle to the gate look out and tootle back to the nearest armchair for a kip!:D:D

Max on the otherhand would bugger off for a sniff around - after a while he would bring himself home that is of course assuming that a hare or something more interesting didn't wander past:rolleyes:D:D
 
They'd both be off in a shot, never to be seen again. :o

Of the two I reckon I'd have a better chance of getting Ricoh back, surprisingly. There's a very small chance that he'd stop if I shouted.
 
The pug, definitely. He only wants to be beside us. The Boston? I think it's 50/50. Last year we rented a summer house, and, unbeknownst to us, the gardener left the back gate open all afternoon, and Stella chose to hang around. Maybe I don't give the little booger enough loyalty credit.
 
If sunny or rainy they'd hang about, lazing in garden or shooting inside. Any other weather condition and they're off ;)
 
well my front and back gates are about a 3 minute walk from the house (I live on a farm)! So he always stays on the farm, and is savvy enough to get out of the way of any vehicles about, he's usually off with one of the other farm dogs and always comes back in an hour or so.
 
He'd be off in a heartbeat - there is a spot down the yard where my neighbours take their dogs to pee, and he is obsessed with getting there! On the couple of occasions that he has made it out of the front door he has headed straight there - unfortunately the main road also lies in that direction:eek::eek: Happily he's always been stopped before he gets there, but it does nothing for my nerves I can tell you:o
 
Our Beagle, absolutely!! He always makes a hopeful dash for the door each time its opened!
Our Lurcher, nope she is as good as gold and so loyal to my husband that the only way she would go is if she saw his car drive off and she would try to follow.
 
my gal wouldnt leave the garden unless the kids did & then she would be barking & trotting between house/me & the kids. we camp most weekends & she is used to strange places & does not leave mine/OH's side unless one of the toddlers wanders off then she is between us making lots offuss so we notice & round them up.
 
Terrier would be off like a shot. Once got home and let him in the garden to find window cleaner had been and hadnt shut the gate :mad: Dog dissapeared before i could recall him, he went in search of the neighbours cats who sit on the back wall and taunt him and found him having a poo on their lawn :eek: Needless to say now i always check the gate is shut before letting him out.
 
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