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  Location: TN | For those of you who keep your dogs outside part or all of the time what kind of fence and dog house or bedding situation do you have set up for them? We’re moving soon to a home with acreage and we’ve done a lot of work to renovate the house and my daughter is crawling and keeping the dog hair off of everything is so hard! So anyway I’d like to have things set up where they can be comfortable outside most of the time. We are outside a lot so they won’t be alone and can run free when we’re there. Just curious to know what everyone else does? Also need to add one dog is bad about digging and squeezing under any tiny gap in a fence. |
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Expert
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     Location: Oklahoma | I am also going to be setting up a new place. Right now we did t-posts and 2x2 fencing and put railroad ties around the edges. I have weenie dogs. But at the new place I want to get those horse panels with the 2x2 welded on the frame. they look really nice. and they are 48"x16' for 54.99 ea. |
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Go Get Em!
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     Location: OH. IO | We have beagles,they are notorious for digging or sneaking out to go hunt.We use the 2x2 fencing,then we add a short fence at the bottom that we bend at the ground INWARD,it comes in about 2 feet on the ground,we stake it in,and the grass grows over it to help secure it.They can't dig thru it,and have never escaped under the fence.Of course they don't spend a lot of time outside,they spend most of their time on the couch with the rotti. |
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      Location: Iowa | We have a beagle and a lab. We use the Pet Safe Wireless Fence 300. It took some training and we have two transmitters on our acreage but we absolutely love it. Never had to build a fence, trip over a leash or dig in an underground fence. |
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| We keep our dogs in the barn when they need to be "contained" and they are also allowed in the garage although it is too hot in the garage for them in the summer. I have some friends who have a stall in their barn strictly for their dogs. It has a couch and carpet in there! LOL My dogs are happy to be in the barn with the company of the chickens and the horses whereas if they are locked up in a pen or something, i get dirty looks from them. |
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Married to a Louie Lover
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| We have a 12x6 shed/dog house we built with a chain link run on it. It’s insulated and we put straw down plus dog beds/old blankets. They go in there when we aren’t home/at night. Other than that we don’t have a fence for them. They are pretty good about staying home or they go up to my in-laws place next door - usually via the creek line. |
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"Heck's Coming With Me"
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        Location: Kansas | BFN - 2019-05-13 10:07 AM
We keep our dogs in the barn when they need to be "contained" and they are also allowed in the garage although it is too hot in the garage for them in the summer.
I have some friends who have a stall in their barn strictly for their dogs. It has a couch and carpet in there! LOL
My dogs are happy to be in the barn with the company of the chickens and the horses whereas if they are locked up in a pen or something, i get dirty looks from them.
Do they never get out in the sunlight? 
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      Location: Texas | I have a covered back porch. I put dog beds out on the porch, and electric fencing inside the fence, one strand at the bottom, and one nearer the top. It will shock the crap out of them! They do not get out as long as the electric fence is on. Mine also spend lots of time indoors, but they are spoiled, and when I leave they sometimes have to stay out back. |
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| We had coyote hounds. We put them on a concrete slab in order to keep them from digging with regular wire dog kennels, not chain link. These were running dogs, so they were not allowed to run free at any time unless they were hunting. We had a couple climbers, they went on chains. They lived in plastic barrels. We cut rectangle holes in one end and lined them with straw or grass hay. We tried one winter to bolt on a rug to cover the opening, but they ate/tore them apart. So we just stuffed a TON of straw...like you would think the dog wouldn't fit...into the barrel. They'd make themselves a nest. You could stick your hand in the barrel and feel the temp difference. The snow would pack around the bottom and lay on the top for even better insulation. We put a plastic tarp over the top with cut holes for drainage in the summer time for shade. Never once had an issue. |
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  Location: TN | Thank you all for the ideas! I’m thinking we’ll do a small fenced in area for when we’re not home and at night. I’ll use some of those tricks for keeping the escape artist in too. |
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