My experience below - not necesssarily everyone's - dogs are as
differrent as people.
The Ortega Family wrote:
I was just wondering whether a baby
gate will do it, and for how long, for kitchen confinement, or whether I
have to create a higher barrier. Some baby gates are the wooden expanding
Hi,
Do not use the expandable wooden baby gates, these are now illegal in
Canada as children can fall and choke on them, puppies can get their front
legs caught on them and their heads stuck in the holes. Fisher-Price make a
good gate and I've used these for years.
Rose
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I vote for a big wire crate over a room or section of the house for reasonable-length
periods of confinement. A crate is always ready for the pup (no last-minute puppy
proofing required), it's stuffed-Kong or other chew-item friendly (you might not want
food on your rugs or
One more word on fencing...I have 4ft chain link fencing and no dog has tried to go
over it, but the first day I got Titan (who at 9 mos. was already 100+ pounds) he
pushed against it and went right through the bottom to visit the neighbor's dog (chain
link has a lot more give than you'd
Hi,
Oh yes Berners can jump four feet:-) I have a five foot chain link and a
friend's bitch popped over that with no problem. I have a bitch who was
staying at a friend's and she liberated herself over a four foot fence gave
the poor woman a nervous breakdown, sent me into orbit and just as I was
