Doggie Chronicles, Part II

Doggie Training update: Hub got a chain for the fence that Fiona keeps trying to get out of. Well, not so much trying, as succeeding, really. She actually pushed her way out of it three times already. I could have beaten her the 2nd time she did it. I had to chase her down the opposite street in my car. She got a BIG spanking when I finally convinced her to get in the car.

I’m not sure why she hasn’t done it around me again, but it might just be that I keep her distracted. I’m not sure. Hub said that she tried it again with him when she thought he wasn’t looking, apparently. She couldn’t get out, though, because we’d already put the chain on by then. So, we know the chain at least works. However, we don’t know how deep of a drive she has to get out. Hey, if the chain does work when we’re not there, then great. We won’t have the need for the invisible fence. However, my fear is that she has a big enough desire to explore that she’d jump the chain-link fence and get out anyway.

We really want to extend the existing 50-70 feet of 6’ tall privacy fence, but right now, we cannot afford it. Depending upon which one we get (of course, in a perfect world, I’d pick the same style as what we already have, but it was expensive), it could go up to 55-60 bucks per 6’ long panel. I do eventually want to put that kind of money into it, as it is an investment that would raise the property value. We might just buy a couple of panels at a time, put them in sporadically, and get it done that way. I am not thrilled about white panels, as I have always wanted maybe a terracotta color scheme, but hey, white works also.

I don’t really like white/neutral colors in the first place. I do like bold neutral, like olives, rusts, etc, but the beige/tan/ecru types, I just don’t like. I grew up with mostly white walls, both apartments I lived in were all white walls, and now that I OWN where I live, we went with middle-of-the-road green for our living room. If you feel froggy, then look up Lowe’s Valspar “Garden of Paradise” color. That is exactly what we used.

House gripe (they do exist!): I don’t appreciate our crawlspace door. First of all, it’s wooden and is by NO means secure. It’s just a wooden panel that we have to push into the opening. It is very loose and has fallen many times. Fiona might have been a factor as well. Maybe she saw it partly open and fiddled it the rest of the way open. I’d like to get something with a latch, or get latches for the door we have, or just get a more secure lockable door. Do those exist? Someone school me if they don’t exist.


Dang, I wanted to write more, but my workload just blew up. Later.