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Dogs & Gates:
Just read with interest Barb's story of Bo
Adventure.
My 10 yr old Pyr has been letting himself out
any gate not padlocked since he was about 2 yr. The padlock doesn't have
to be locked, but it has to be on the latch in the direction that Bud can't tip
it with his nose. He can open a gate faster than Houdini.
When he was about five we were at a local Farm
& Fleet for a 'free' bath. The kid working gave him the bath while we looked
on and he put Bud in a large octagon cage to dry telling us we could shop in the
meantime. I told him my dog could open the door, that he had to jam the
latch somehow or we couldn't enter the store. The kind, but young, man
told me no one had escaped yet. Bud just stood looking innocent. I
bet the kid a dollar and walked to the opposite side of the cage from the
door. As soon as Bud saw that I was as far from his escape hatch as
possible, he gave the latch one flip of his nose and a push and walked
out. We nabbed him before he got loose and he refused to have anything to
do with me the rest of the day. I let the kid keep the dollar. He
was mumbling when we left, something about dumb dogs or dumb owners. It
was hard to tell.
I learned the hard way about the gates.
Bud took himself and our other dog for a couple strolls about town just like Bo
before I realized no kids were turning him loose.
He hasn't figured out the 'locked' padlock trick
yet, but I expect him to do so any minute. It's going to be a big paid to
carry around that padlock key after that.
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