Chain link fencing, a common hazard

[3dognight]

We have the tension wire, but I like the look of that better and it also looks like it would be more effective.

Our boxer never wants out, its our lab that is the problem. Our lab escapes & our boxer tattles on him! He has gone under, even with the tension wire. My husband has been working on building up the bottom side by dumping grass clippings and leaves along the bottom. We also have some stakes driven down through in various places where the fencing seemed to have a little bit of give. I think I'll look into this once we get the final side up and go around the entire 150' with it. We have picket and stockade on the other two sides (honestly it doesn't look at as bad as it sounds....LOL). Though the stockade was up before we bought the house and there is a few inches or more under some sections.

 

[Thomas Liggin]

We have the tension wire, but I like the look of that better and it also looks like it would be more effective.QUOTE]

It depends on the spacing of the posts. If they are fairly close, the tension wire might do the job. But, it doesn't take much force in the center of a long wire to move it a few inches. That few inches is all it takes for a dog to slip his head beneath it.

My buddies and I used to get our cars out of the mud by tying a long line from the car to a tree, or some other stationary object,and then lifting on the middle of the rope while someone drove. It's all in the physics. A hundred pounds of strain lifting at the center puts thousands of pounds of tension in the line.

Our fence averages 12 feet between the posts, and I can assure you there is no way that Indy or Ava would be able to distort the lower rail enough to get their head beneath it. A tension wire....? I only know that it did not do the job for the Black Lab.

Both Indy and Ava are excellent with visible barriers. We use baby gates to keep them from the living and dining rooms. We just lean the gates against the opening, and they don't think about getting past them. Both of them could easily jump over the gates, but they don't.


Tom

 

[3dognight]

Both Indy and Ava are excellent with visible barriers. We use baby gates to keep them from the living and dining rooms. We just lean the gates against the opening, and they don't think about getting past them. Both of them could easily jump over the gates, but they don't.


Tom

We do the same with gates in the house and they don't touch them! Its amazing. However, our lab and the outside is another story. The fun part is he only gets this wild hair across his butt once in a great while, so when we least expect it....he is digging away and slipping under (well he is 100 lbs, but you'd be surprised to see what he can squeeze his big butt through)! He tends to keep it up for a few weeks, then leaves it alone again? He's fixed, so I'm not sure what gets him going.