HeyBub wrote:

Norminn wrote:

Might try burying a length of hardware cloth (mesh screening stuff)
along the fence. Doggie might get down to it and give up. A hooked
stake can be driven down, holding bottom of chainlink fencing and
through the hardware cloth. Hardware cloth could be laid on top of
ground to try it out. If the dog persists or goes around it, I would
seriously consider trading him in.


Animals that damage the home
aren't pets, IMO.


Goldfish are pets. Dogs and cats are members of the family.

You wouldn't "trade-in" a toddler who left teeth-marks on the coffee table.

Damage to property is something you have to accept from a member of the
family.


I like to garden, love to work in the yard. After all of the time and
expense of getting a yard looking nice, I wouldn't want anyone or
anything to ruin it. I'm not fond of huge animals kept in environs not
suited to them, and think pit bulls and rottweilers should be outlawed.
Too many people who keep pets either for "protection" or an ego trip,
and the animal ends up killing somebody because it isn't properly cared
for or confined. Have a neighbor with a rottweiler/mastiff which has
been cited for attacking one animal, since injured another, and the
moronic owner cannot control it and doesn't bother to use a muzzle any
longer. Another neighbor brought his pit bull over to introduce it to a
second neighbor's pet and the pit ended up killing the other dog. Folks
forget that dogs aren't that far removed from wild animals and still
have animal instincts. Big darn difference between pets and family.