( Posted this is r/dogtraining and though I might try here as well)
Hi everyone! I am not super sure where to post this, hopefully this is alright here.
So I have a somewhat unique situation that I didn’t really know how to google lol I’m hoping I can gather more info here. I work at my parents house in the office for their business. They are moving to a new house in about 1-2 months a few neighborhoods over for more space for their business. Both houses are 3 minutes from my place. Now, I take my dog with me every morning to work. She is a 9 month old GSD. Here is our current timeline just in case it helps for some reason.
6:30am - Let out of crate in the morning to hang out
7:30am - This is when we leave for work, she gets put in the backyard at my parents house in a dog run. (The dog run won’t work at the new house because there is not fence so act as the back section of the dog run and we do not have enough sections of dog run to make a square, if that makes sense)
8:30am - this is usually when the office work slows down and I intermittently let her out of the dog run to play fetch until I’m never back in the office
10:00am - We head back home for my lunch break which is 2 hours. She hangs out while I work out and fix lunch etc.
12:00pm - She gets put back in her crate for nap time until I return from work.
3:00pm - I get off work and she hangs out the rest of the day with me.
She will be going from 0.1 acres of land to 0.6 which is a pretty large improvement. However, she cannot be unsupervised. She is in the throes of adolescence and I simply don’t trust her alone. Especially at the new house, she will not be familiar with it.
The big kicker is that the large backyard is not fenced yet. They never had one, so the large backyard is sort of just open to the neighbors land, which is a no no for my pup, she would probably just leave lol and go wherever. My dad will not be able to build a fence for a few months until the busy season for the business is over.
SO after all that, my question is... what options do I have for confinement? My dad and I would both love to see her continue to be able to run around and play for those three hours in the morning instead of being in her crate the whole time at my place. However with no fence, we’re not sure what options are even out there. She can’t just roam around. She’s also a big girl and I know she scares people when she gets reactive occasionally about other dogs/people too close.
He was thinking a cable type thing for her harness to clip to where she can kinda zip line herself around the yard. However, if I attached a cable or anything to her harness and left her alone, she would chew her harness off. My next thought was a slip collar (?) where it tightens if she pulls, that way she could not get out of it or chew the collar off. I don’t know if that’s a good idea though.
This was so long lol thank you for reading if you made it this far and I hope I can figure something out with your suggestions!
Puppy Tax ( )
Hi everyone! I am not super sure where to post this, hopefully this is alright here.
So I have a somewhat unique situation that I didn’t really know how to google lol I’m hoping I can gather more info here. I work at my parents house in the office for their business. They are moving to a new house in about 1-2 months a few neighborhoods over for more space for their business. Both houses are 3 minutes from my place. Now, I take my dog with me every morning to work. She is a 9 month old GSD. Here is our current timeline just in case it helps for some reason.
6:30am - Let out of crate in the morning to hang out
7:30am - This is when we leave for work, she gets put in the backyard at my parents house in a dog run. (The dog run won’t work at the new house because there is not fence so act as the back section of the dog run and we do not have enough sections of dog run to make a square, if that makes sense)
8:30am - this is usually when the office work slows down and I intermittently let her out of the dog run to play fetch until I’m never back in the office
10:00am - We head back home for my lunch break which is 2 hours. She hangs out while I work out and fix lunch etc.
12:00pm - She gets put back in her crate for nap time until I return from work.
3:00pm - I get off work and she hangs out the rest of the day with me.
She will be going from 0.1 acres of land to 0.6 which is a pretty large improvement. However, she cannot be unsupervised. She is in the throes of adolescence and I simply don’t trust her alone. Especially at the new house, she will not be familiar with it.
The big kicker is that the large backyard is not fenced yet. They never had one, so the large backyard is sort of just open to the neighbors land, which is a no no for my pup, she would probably just leave lol and go wherever. My dad will not be able to build a fence for a few months until the busy season for the business is over.
SO after all that, my question is... what options do I have for confinement? My dad and I would both love to see her continue to be able to run around and play for those three hours in the morning instead of being in her crate the whole time at my place. However with no fence, we’re not sure what options are even out there. She can’t just roam around. She’s also a big girl and I know she scares people when she gets reactive occasionally about other dogs/people too close.
He was thinking a cable type thing for her harness to clip to where she can kinda zip line herself around the yard. However, if I attached a cable or anything to her harness and left her alone, she would chew her harness off. My next thought was a slip collar (?) where it tightens if she pulls, that way she could not get out of it or chew the collar off. I don’t know if that’s a good idea though.
This was so long lol thank you for reading if you made it this far and I hope I can figure something out with your suggestions!
Puppy Tax ( )