Back Yard

How can I keep my dog inside the back yard??

He is a 3 year old blue dobie named jackson. I have tried attacking chicken wire to the fence to make it too wobbly to climb-didnt work! I need to know a way to keep him in the yard because we raise free ranging chickens and hes started killing them so he needs to be in the back yard unless we are outside with him. Any ideas-with out spending a couple hundred bucks?
Attaching–sorry guys i didnt attack the chicken wire! lol

wow ashley – you got a lot of answers– that good because yu give a lot of good ones!

Anyway- I would stay away from chainging , leads, teathering at all, or use only for very short timeperiods — when you are home and can monitor him. Too many fatal accidents can result from teathering, you would be surprised at how many choking to death incidents there are from leads that are suppose to be injury proof. so, I think you have a little gal- right? under 5? if you have electric fence up, and on when you are home- your little gal could come into contact with it- catastrophe! she would be ok, but the whole incident would just be horrific. so, no leads – unless you are home, under say 20 min, need to be cheapes but very effective solution, i would try to barrow some electric fence from a neighbor or someone you know that has cattle- the usually have some. Use this when you are NOT home, put your little one (s) in the car, in the car seat and buckled, then YOU only go back and turn on the fence. When you get home – keep your little one in car (shade) and still buckled in while you go in and turn off fence, then allow your little ones out of the car. Before you put it up show her the fence, from about 5 ft away explain that will hurt her, but without being scarey about it, and explain it is a safety device for the dog to stay in and away from the chickens but she is to never touch it- ever– treat like a gun – its always on – even when its off in her mind, like every gun is treated like a loaded gun, even if its not. This may be initimidating to even have the fence up and off, the site of it may be unsettleing and make her nervous as she tries to just play in her yard, you’ll have to see how she handles it.

then when you are home, to keep in yard, off leash, but contained, I would look into making the investment in invisible fence, then hopefully the barrowed electric fence can go back to its owner, but at first you may need the added “authority” of electric fence especially when you are not home. Once a dog has killed something — and especially when it fowl– they just seem to really getting into those feathers – once its happened once. That is a totally hard one to fix, in dogs. Keep in mind too, you don’t want to fry one of your chickens on the electric fence– you have lots of factors to consider– your little one(s), your dog, and the chickens themselves, and you – how much work to put into it, and to really stay on your toes and the order of processes when enabling the power to that fence – it can be tricky – i had to use electric fence when my youngest was about 20 months – I really had to stay on my toes, and do the fence on and fence off routines — methodicly – exaxtly the same every time to not make a mistake i would retgret- a lot!

So – try to barrow electric temporarily, use only when not home, look for used invisible fence- try asking about this at a local fedd/farm/supply store- put up a bulletin annoucing this on a bulletin board, most of these type of stores have bulletin boards.
Also – in here in the dogs room- do we still have that option of asking cesar directly a question? i would do that for the actual “tast for fow” your dog has now. I would start myself with making the dog lay down – submissive position – on his side- bring a chicken over- do not allow him to put his up, keep it on the ground, still lieing on side. hold the chicken, keeping it above him- he has to submit, and be relaxed with the chicken being held by you, at a level a little higher than him. I would practive this daily, at lease once. Also put chicken in cage, he has to lie along side cage, submissive, not fixated, looking out the other direction – at the world, not staring at chicken. Cesar had an episode on this- the authors of “marley and Me” had a fowl – tasting dog, killed a chicken, and Cesar was able to get them in the right direction of rehabbing that train of thought– but it is a practice – everyday for quite some time.

sorry such a long answer– lots to consider here, and lots of obstacles – i know – ihave been through this! email me if there is anything else i can help with

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