My 1 year old Boxer keeps jumping the fence whenever I walk to the neighbors house or when she sees them outside. She doesn't roam around town, just over to their house. What should I do?
Don't keep the dog in the yard unsupervised? Your other options are crating or tethering. I assume you have a chain link fence? Anyone could walk up to it and taunt your dog amoung other worse things like poisoning.
I do have a chain link fence. However, we live in the country and I only have one neighbor (whom would never harm her). I cannot put her in a pen or on a chain because she WORKS during the day - along with my Bloodhound and my Blue Heeler. I usually put her in a solitary pen if I catch her jumping. However, she doesn't seem to get the connection!
That's because a dog never will dogs need to be corrected WHEN things are happening. If you see them doing something you have to immediately correct them right then. Solitary pens won;t do anything because there's no way for the dog to understand that.
You loose the opportunity of connection within 3 seconds after the incident I think It's Me or The Dog said. I doubt it takes three seconds for you to get the dog into solitary.
Whenever I do catch her in the act I actually say "NO mmmmmmaaaaaaammmmmm" Immediately. She immediately sits down (usually right outside the fence). I walk up to her and say get in your cage. She imediately lowers her head and walks to the pen. She knows that she did wrong (or it seems that way). When she gets out of the cage she is fine. Its when she is unsupervised or when she sees the neighbors that she attempts to jump. She never does it if a stranger or another animal is outside the fence.
You can run an invisible fence wire along your existing fence. Only the dog that climbs the fence would have to wear the collar. The dog would get an immediate correction when it approaches the fence. I know that a lot of people don't approve of these systems, but it's better than having your dog get hung up on the fence, hit by a car, lost, etc.
MY dog is literally destroying the house! He never really seams to get that he's not supposed to chew things. My dogs a boxer and he's the biggest trouble maker! It's just like your problem, he ran away from home once and he broke his arm! He never ran away after the accident.
I understand the concept behind an invisiable fence however, I don't truly know if that would work because she never even touches the fence on her way over! She needs to be in the doggy Olympics for jumping lol. Well I plan on putting up an 8ft privacy fence (but have to save-up the money first) LOL. She has actually gotten out of her chewing on random things phase (except for the coffee table - who knows why)... But that phase is over. Hopefully the privacy fence will solve all our problems because I don't want her to teach our Bloodhound Pup any bad habits (she has enough of her own LOL)