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The GREAT Escape

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#1 · (Edited)
Ok...WHO has Great Escape stories??

Below are two YouTube Videos that will make you howl!!!



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If you have to put construction fencing up in your kitchen... it is time for some hardcore behavior modification <BG> Some of those dogs are amazing and too intelligent. No one should own a jack russell that hasn't had years of dog training!

Isabelle is an escape artist and she finds a way-she breaks out of crates- little bodies can fit thru metal crates if they push long enough, thru gates- she will push under them until the lift up or thru the wood sides, etc. I should youtube her fitting in between the gate openings for you guys- we just close the dog door when I leave now. Thank goodness she isn't destructive. As long as you don't cage her, she is fine. She always just runs to me. But she has never chewed anything other than qtips and cotton balls. So she has full run everywhere- even from a young age.

Dora is very cute and trained appropriately to being Belle's sister. We have an easement where we walk thru my neighbor's side of the house, through their gates and to ours. Dora will run to our gate and even if we are leaving she will stop there. I have to give her a command it is okay. She is so used to me yelling at Belle that she is scared of that zone!

When we first got Belle, the area we tried to contain her in was our apartment kitchen. She was just over one pound and we knew there was no way she knocked over the baby gate- my husband swore I was not putting it up right and then we put her in there and watched from the hallway. She just wasn't going to let a baby gate seperate her from us. She was head butting it!
 
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Amanda...they just hate being alone! Dogs are pack animals and if they are left to themselves will do (as you saw) most anything to get free.
We started out with one dog, but quickly caught on (as we both worked) that our dog needed companionship. So we got another one and the destructive behavior stopped..
 
#8 ·
Marley the escape artist! LOL Classic video!

I bet the only reason why Gucci never managed to escape the xpen was because it was the plastic kind. She did manage to injure herself pretty badly trying to get out of the crate.

I did everything the books said, start with short intervals, sit right there, etc. But when I had worked up to leaving her alone and I went upstairs for 5 minutes, she somehow CUT her ear?!?! Throwing herself against the crate...Blood...EVERYWHERE. It looked like a murder scene and I felt like the WORST doggie mom of the year. Needless to say, I was too traumatized from the crate, so I managed to train her w/o it. *sigh*

Like Belle, she does better w/ full run of the house, she's never destroyed anything, and she'll even wait to go potty til' I get home, or every now and then use the pad, but I worry far less about her if she's got her freedom. she does NOT like confinement...or to be away from me.

Kara
 
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Kara, Kubrick also never escaped the expen and I think it was because it was the plastic type (he couldn't hold onto anything). Later we used a gate to block off a small area and the gate was just vertical white bars (very slippery to boot) so Kubrick couldn't get out no matter how hard he tried. And he did try. ;)
 
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Alexa, now I remember that Marley was the little stinker. That is one of the cutest videos. Everytime I play it, Lexi comes over to watch!! I lied, actually Logan did get out of his xpen at a VERY early age, and then when we went to gates, we had to actually lock them in place, whereas with the girls, we just had to lean then on the wall. But since our fire in the kitchen, we dont gate them anymore.
 
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Benji has climbed out of his 24" + ex-pen when he was just 5-6 months old. Lizzie escaped from her expen by pushing and lifting the expen, head butting the gate and squeezing out through it the first evening we brought her home. I put the ex-pen away and let her have the run of the family room with Benji.
 
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Well, they sure can scare the wits out of you, because before you can even bat an eye you're saying..HOW did they manage THAT?

One day my Hav's got up on my desk near the living room picture window and had jumped over onto the window sill and were gymnastically running up and down it as if they were on a balance beam!!

You wonder sometimes, how in the world they don't break their little Hav necks!
 
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I do not have videos, but I do have Houdinis. Brutus could climb out of an ex-pen at 3 months of age. We switched to the plastic version and expanded his area to decrease his desire. By the time we got Roxie, there was a gate sectioning off the family room and kitchen from the rest of the house. Roxie learned to climb up on the couch, then the back and jump about 10 feet to get over the gate (think of the movies where you see people jumping from the roof of one high rise to another.) So we moved the gate out to the hall way. Then Brutus discovered he could push open the doors from the kitch to the dining room. We put a 15# jug on the otherside to make it more difficult to open. It took awhile, but my 11# dog became strong enough to open it. We added 5# of sand to the jug. It wasn't long before he was strong enough to move that, too. That door is now tied shut.

It used to be that the dogs would only try to get out when they new I was working on something upstairs. But today I was at work and my husband was gone and he came home to find that Brutus had escaped.

I must have some pretty awesome garbage to make them work that hard to escape!!!
 
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Alexa, Tessa just barked at Marley when she heard him whine :) I love how he just shakes it off when he gets out, as if to say, well, done with that, time to move on....LOL!

We have a brick enclosure around our yard except for 2 wrought iron fences, one in back, one in front. Tessa learned real quick she could squeeze in between the slats. It took me by surprise, I didn't realize she was small enough to do so (all that hair, you know!). So when I looked up and saw her on the other side of the gate I almost panicked and ran after her, but I kept me cool and ran the other way, up the stairs and onto my porch. Since she's the velcro dog she followed me, and all was safe. My DH rigged a system to close up the slats but until he did, Tessa would try every trick in the book to get to the gates! Sneaky little devil! She would even try to distract me or lead me to another area of the yard, then make a run around me for the gate!

It taught me that if she wants something bad enough she will reason a way to do what she wants to do. I guess the trick of training is for us to trick them into thinking it's something THEY want to do!

The other incident was when at bathtime she took a flying leap out of the kitchen sink onto our wood floor. How such a tiny thing didn't get hurt is beyond me. She has NO fear and is constantly climbing and leaping from one piece of furniture to the next!
 
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Alexa, Tessa just barked at Marley when she heard him whine :) I love how he just shakes it off when he gets out, as if to say, well, done with that, time to move on....LOL!

We have a brick enclosure around our yard except for 2 wrought iron fences, one in back, one in front. Tessa learned real quick she could squeeze in between the slats. It took me by surprise, I didn't realize she was small enough to do so (all that hair, you know!). So when I looked up and saw her on the other side of the gate I almost panicked and ran after her, but I kept me cool and ran the other way, up the stairs and onto my porch. Since she's the velcro dog she followed me, and all was safe. My DH rigged a system to close up the slats but until he did, Tessa would try every trick in the book to get to the gates! Sneaky little devil! She would even try to distract me or lead me to another area of the yard, then make a run around me for the gate!

It taught me that if she wants something bad enough she will reason a way to do what she wants to do. I guess the trick of training is for us to trick them into thinking it's something THEY want to do!

The other incident was when at bathtime she took a flying leap out of the kitchen sink onto our wood floor. How such a tiny thing didn't get hurt is beyond me. She has NO fear and is constantly climbing and leaping from one piece of furniture to the next!
Yikes Jan..that's scary! How old is Tessa?
 
#23 ·
Not even 5 mo old!

I know they aren't supposed to jump off sofas, stairs, etc, until after 6 mo at least, but it would take a straight jacket to stop her! I do my best but she moves lightening quick!

In fact, she moves from one piece of furniture ot another not by jumping down, but by leaping through the air. My little acrobat!
 
#24 ·
Jan, Tessa is so much like my girl! I couldnt' believe when she jumped out of the sink, right in between my arms! I had just turned my eye for 2 seconds to get the soap!!!! lol

My husband had to put chicken wire around the fence because she can get through..she STILL can! There are a few places the rabbits have put holes in, so I have to keep an eye on it.

We need to get the WIRE chicken fence, we have the plastic one (black) to match, since they don't sell the wire in black, we have to paint it first...which is why we keep putting it off! lol, well....hubby said he'd do it when it was *cooler* outside, which is now, right? I should start nagging.

Gucci has only hurt herself once and that was a miscalculated jump onto the pool deck :( I think she was around Tessa's age.

Kara
 
#25 ·
I'm really glad that my boys aren't as smart as these dogs--- (well Cash isn't as smart- and Jasper is just too cautious) I love the key turning German Shepard. and Alexa --- Marley is just too, too adorable--- I love how it looks back at the pen and then just shakes off as in "ok now that's done"

But sometimes, well only one specific time, Jasper does escape the kitchen- we have a pretty heavy swinging door that separates the kitchen and the sunroom with the rest of the house. Well when the mail man comes- my sweet little cautious Jasper turns red zone and with all that adrenaline pushes through that door-- he is all taught and stressed and barking and growling and when the mail comes through the door-- he has been known to rip through catalogs the size of a small phone book. It is pretty disturbing to see. we have tried the cesar approach to make him submissive- I have put him on a leash and tried to get him to sit- I have held a treat in front of him and told him to wait through it
(this has been the most successful) but he never relents.

any advice?
 
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