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Anna,meet your new fence building crew.Just tell us what day you want the bus to show up.

and Oklahoma City.

53 miles to get to the place in the next suburb

sorta reminded me of an Athens Greece or Napoli cabbie. You could see the place out the window, 45 minutes later you arrived.

(poor Anna's thread...)

You guys are a mess!

I definitely realize the perils of owning dogs and having fencing. Needless to say I've been to the rodeo before. I keep about 5 bags of quickcrete on hand to patch low spots and to fill in holes that they start. My fence line is practically all cement now! There is always one extra foster dog at my house and right now I am on foster dog number 70! I've got lots of experience dealing with escape artists.

The dogs are only out a few times a day for probably a total of 2 hours a day. When I'm not home they are inside and most of the time when they are outside I am with them tossing the ball or watching them play tug of war with motorcycle tires.

My only digger is Mabel . Being a Bloodhound, she has a deep need to get out and follow her nose.

I've talked to two of my neighbors. Both would like to have the fencing repaired but only one has any funds to help and has agreed to pay 50% of the section adjacent to his property. That's two down and one to go.

We are located in the county and there are no regulations. We don't even need a building permit to build our house!

The fence will absolutely have hotwire on the bottom to keep the digging and hole searching down to a minimum. In reality though, they are not left to their own devices for long when they are outside. I keep a pretty close eye on them.

Thanks for the advice and I will be on the lookout for that bus. Gotta run get a trench coat and sunglasses so that I can hide when ya'll show up!

Anna:

I'm amazed that Mabel even survived! (lots of nasty words left unsaid) I've never seen a dog that thin, talk about a bag of bones! The change is amazing.

If I may ask, how'd the case turn out?

esshup. at the end, it says they adopted and kept her. Apparently she is the digger. EDIT...sorry esshup, After feeling good about the outcome, I forgot about the earlier abuse.

I have a different problem. 2 lil dogs, 1 old cocker passed down from son after too many kids knocked him down the totem pole, now, 2 juvenile choc. labs. Our other son and family have one, Bailey, that is human. We fell for her. So, when we saw the 2 pups running the country roads, I just mentioned, half in jest, to the wife "why didnt you get them". Well, now, after a talk with prior owners, we have them. Male, Marley, and female, Mollye. Problem is, Marley got 1/2 of Mollye's head. He wears about a size 10 football helmet, and Mollye's head is narrower than her neck. She can slip a collar like Houdini. She is also a runner. Therefore, this fencing issue, and hole repairs is quite interesting.........not to mention costly. No $30 lures for me. Worms and grasshoppers.

They still have warrants outstanding. Apparently this couple left her chained in the backyard and moved away. The police were able to get their info from the landlord but they have never been arrested.

The amazing thing is that her transformation was achieved with just good food and lots of supplements. I took her to my vet and aside from making everyone in the office cry there really was not anything they could do for her. My vet told me to "Take her home and do what you do." The only medication she received from the vet was for her thyroid and that did not come on board for two weeks.

She is the reason I opened my store. Everything I needed for her had to be ordered from out of town. I decided that someone local needed to help people and their pets. Food is an amazing and healing substance. Doing things gently and naturally encourages long term healing and can work miracles. Thus Mabel was the impetus behind the Wholesome Hound. Our logo is actually a pen and ink drawing of her done by an artist in Athens, GA.

Burger try getting harness' for the pooches. This way they can't slip out of them. Mabel's head is smaller than her neck too and she can back out of a collar in two seconds flat. I always use a harness to walk her and she has never gotten out of it.

Perfect! That is the very attire that we don while painting the town red (using the "engaging in a riotous spree" definition, not actually painting a town red, however if you happend to live in a small town and have some red paint and supply us with enough adult beverages, well let's just say almost anything can happen).

This attire has been carefully developed once we realized that if you gather bunch of unruly Pond Meisters the end result can be odd behavior. Anything from unscheduled bus tours to ninja pond stocking. The trench coat works well to protect our tourist attire. The sunglass are just to look way cooler than we actually are.

Some of us are best described by a REK song - "Paint the town beige"...

Dont forget the tinfoil pointy hats.

Sorry, Tom. Not with the trench coat. That goes better with the 'Captain Cody' attire.

Aw man Burger! I love my tinfoil hat! It goes with everything and can act as protective rain gear in a pinch. It also keeps the aliens from sucking the thoughts out of my brain and interfering with communications from the mothership. How do you get along without yours?

He made a deal with Major League Baseball.