Re: [pyrnet] Chat: Moving Day

["Nancy Chadwick" <nancy@meadowdance.org>]

Jeanne,
Thank you so much for that entertaining and detailed description of the
fence adventure! I have often had questions about what type of fencing is
best and what type you can "get by" with. One thing I have discovered is
that a five foot fence in Vermont becomes a two foot fence in February! We
had to revert to walks only for Mendi once the snow got really deep because
she would be able to simply walk over the fence! I'm going to save your
letter in case I'm ever looking at fencing issues again!

Nancy Chadwick and Mendi
Walden, Vermont

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeanne Bravin" <gypsyunltd@yahoo.com>
To: "PYR-L" <PYR-L@APPLE.EASE.LSOFT.COM>; "pyrnet" <pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org>
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 9:16 AM
Subject: [pyrnet] Chat: Moving Day


> Hi all!  We finally moved last weekend, and it's been
> an adventure.  Those of you who assured me that Gypsy
> would be fine as long as she was with me were
> absolutely right - she's come through the move like a
> trouper, and already knows what "belongs" and what
> doesn't in her new space.
>
> I put a leash on Gypsy first thing Saturday morning,
> and kept her on a leash all day long.  My youngest
> daughter's main task the entire day was supervising
> Gypsy and helping me with the animals.  When we
> arrived at the new house, Carol spent the entire
> afternoon walking Gypsy around the yard.  When every
> thing was moved and all the helpers gone, I closed up
> the gate and let Gypsy "loose" (trailing her leash) in
> her new yard.  I thought it would be pretty safe, but
> I wanted that trailing leash just in case.  Turned out
> to be a smart move!
>
> It's a corner lot, 100' x 200'.  The whole thing is
> perimeter fenced.  The back and side where there are
> neighbors have a 6' stockade fence, and the front and
> side that are on the roads have a 4' chain link -
> since Gypsy has never tried to jump or climb a fence,
> I thought it would be perfect.  The stockaded corner
> has a large garden surrounded by a small picket fence
> with a gate and an arbor.  I was thinking 'wonderful,
> Gypsy won't be able to eat or tromple anything planted
> in there!'  Wrong.
>
> The first thing she did was to inspect the garden
> fence.  She walked around it once, then went back to
> the gate area.  She looked at the gate for all of one
> minute, then grabbed one of the pickets on the gate
> with her paw and popped it off and went into the
> garden for an explore.  (Ok, no big deal - my son had
> already said that he was going to repair that entire
> garden fence, especially the leaning arbor, and I'm
> sure that he will make it Gypsy proof.)
>
> Gypsy then, almost immediately, showed me that the
> corner fence post for the stockade fence was loose,
> and was very pleased to see that she could move the
> whole corner of it using the paw & picket method!
> (All right, that has to be fixed, but at least there's
> another wire fence behind it.  She wouldn't be going
> anywhere...)
>
> She then walked the entire perimeter of the chain link
> fence, and found a spot where the fence is down a
> little because of a tree that fell on it way back
> when.  I didn't think that it would be a problem
> because it's still about three feet high, but she
> seemed to think it was just right for "mountain
> climbing".  I scolded her and pulled her back, but I
> could see the wheels in her head turning and the
> information being filed for future reference in the
> immense data bank that is her brain.  (Sigh.  Ok,
> that's got to be fixed ASAP.)
>
> She then discovered that the paw & picket method works
> pretty well on rotted out pieces of the stockade fence
> in the back, but there doesn't happen to be a wire
> fence behind it on THAT side.  (Grumble grumble - we
> could just run welded wire fencing along the inside of
> the stockade...)
>
> And then - oh look!  What's behind this garage?!?
> Why, it's a giant hole under the fence!  Just right
> for a Great Pyrenees to fit under!!!
> (ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Well, we could just fence off
> the sides of the garage with that welded wire, as long
> as we're putting it up along the stockade anyway...)
>
> But then, the piece de resistance - there was a possum
> in a bush in front of the house.  Gypsy jumped up on
> the fence to get a closer "bark" at it, and almost
> FELL OVER the 4' chain link.  4' is fine for walking
> and running, but not for vigorous upright barking.  So
> basically, the entire fence is now worthless to me.
> And it only took her 1/2 an hour to figure it all out.
>
> She has spent most of the nights in the new house
> sleeping in our bed, which is highly unusual for her,
> but she's doing pretty well otherwise.  She loves
> going for "walks" several times a day, and I have a
> temporary tie out cable runner that gives her a 20' x
> 50' area in the back yard for first thing in the
> morning (before I'm dressed!) and other short periods
> of time that I can't go out with her.  I spent three
> days this week doing nothing but clearing overgrown
> brush and vines so that my husband and I can install a
> 6' Pyr-proof fence out back.  She'll only have PART of
> the yard, but it will be a SAFE part!  The rest we'll
> do at our leisure.
>
> Now that the brush clearing is done, I can get back to
> unpacking the household stuff.  Anybody need a fence tested?
>
> Jeanne Bravin
> Mastic, NY
> GypsyunLTD@yahoo.com
>
>
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