Keep your dog safe in your backyard. All dogs suffer when it is too hot. Some are particularly vulnerable to heatstroke. If you are in a hot climate, make sure you have a shaded area or a porch where the dog can get out of the sun. It is vital they have a secure source of fresh water; by secure we mean he can’t easily tip it over. Common sense is important when deciding whether it is safe to leave your dog outside: a short coated dog or a companion dog that is bred to spend his life indoors will not be able to tolerate being left outside in a cold climate. Your dog care tips include:
Securing Your Yard
It may not make sense to you that the same dog that is so happy to see you when you get home may want to find his way out of the back yard to freedom, but many dogs are lost each year because of this. Most dogs do not have a good sense of the dangers cars represent. Once outside your yard, they may just follow interesting scents and be so focused on those they aren’t aware of approaching vehicles. They can also get frightened and run right into traffic. Many breeds are efficient diggers. They can tunnel under a wooden fence with ease. A back gate that is not latched properly can also give your dog an escape route. With smaller breeds, only a few inch gap between slats can be enough for them to squeeze through. Think of this in the positive way: your dog is not trying to escape from your house, he is perhaps trying to find you.
The first thing you need to do is check the perimeter of your yard for any gaps in the fence. One easy solution is to dig down six inches below ground and affix narrow gage wire fencing material to your existing fence. You can hold the fencing in place below ground by burying bricks, rocks or pavers. This will make it more difficult for your dog to tunnel under, and have the added benefit or making it harder for rodents or snakes to get into your yard. You may also want to padlock your gate. A strong dog may try to push open the gate, and some gates with loose latches can even be blown open by the wind. Keeping your fence in good repair is important. If the dog can find a loose or weak slat to chew through, he will.
Safety Inside The Yard
Your beautiful back yard with the trees, flowers, grass and vegetable garden may seem like paradise to you, and your dog will certainly enjoy romping around back there, but there are safety considerations as well, and you will want to make sure your tender plants are protected from your dog.
Again, dogs love to dig. Some breeds, in fact, simply have to dig. For them, it is part of the joy of being alive. They don’t care if what they are digging up is a prized flower garden, or the spinach crop you have been carefully tending since early spring. And a dog doesn’t at all mind taking a short cut through the flower beds trampling them as he goes. You may want to consider fencing off areas of your yard to protect your plants. This is particularly the case with frisky young pups. As your dog grows you will be able to train him to stay out the flower or vegetable garden, but to a puppy, it all looks like a playground.
Your dog care tips will keep your dog safe in your backyard.
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Find more about your dog care tips. Dee Power is the author of several nonfiction books and the novel “Over Time.” She is the proud companion of Rose, the Irish Setter, and Kate the English Springer Spaniel. Read Rose and Kate’s blog.
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hi, im starting a dog daycare from home and would appreciate any tips, ideas, suggestions plz. thanx merry xmas
hey im starting a ddc and would appreciate any tips or suggestions plz
Well, nothing much will deter a drunk, for one thing, but there are fake dogs you can use – basically, it makes wild barking doberman noises when you are out of the house and someone rings the doorbell or it detects movement outside – things like that. You can also urinate on your front door – that makes it unappealing for anyone to stand there for a long period. LOL
Booby traps usually get you jail time, because they are a nuisance to fire fighters and gas meter readers, etc. You cannot create a punitive protection, basically. OK, we worked on a prairie where snowmobilers were cutting the fence over and over to get in and destroy the prairie by riding on it – so they dug a trench and there just happened to be some logs left in it – once the snow had covered it, the weight and force of the snowmobile crossing it pierced their undercarriages and so destroyed the snowmobile. They could not complain, because they had passed a "no snowmobiling" sign and cut a fence to get in and except for snowmobiles, the trench and logs were not a risk to others anymore than a trench is anywhere else – it was the speed and weight that ruined the machines on it. So we came back and one snowmobile had been dragged out, but the other had the plate removed and was abandoned, so we took it to the dump, lit it on fire and danced around it. LOL (Those were the 1980's, though.)
Anyway, you can make something that ruins a vehicle making illegal acccess, but does it passively. But you cannot make a snare or other device that catches a human or harms them. That being said, the slope behind out house is an old midden, overgrown with poison ivy and loaded with sweet greenbriar, old rustedbarbed wire and broken glass from the farm that used to be on the property. So anyone trying to get at our house up that slope will be in for a world of hurt – that is a "natural" deterrent, basically.
I guess then that I would recommend you fill the sides of the fence on your side with raspberry bushes, blueberry bushes or wild roses, which make a pretty nasty barrier over time. Yucca plants are also like a fence of knives to pass through – they look harmless, but have needle-sharp points that will stab through jeans and gloves in a heartbeat. Firefighters know what they look like or will avoid them without harming themselves seriously once they put their first foot into the brush – they arrive on site stone cold sober, though.
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