[MonicaBH]

You know, I was sitting here thinking about this post and realized I hadn't mentioned something that happened to Clyde and I a few weeks back.

Two doors down from me, there is a home that has several miniature pinschers and a pit bull puppy. The dogs are all kept in an invisible fence. I was sitting in my yard one evening, and the dogs were going crazy in the confines of their fence while a car drove past. One of the min pins went through the fence and started chasing the car, and wound up underneath it. I ran to her; it seemed as if her hip was dislocated.

NOT EVEN a week later, Clyde & I were walking home from playing ball when those same min pins (four of them!) came through their "secure" invisible fence and began attacking my dog. Clyde is trying to run like hell, and I am kicking those dogs to get them off. The owner of the dogs has the audacity to come out of her house screaming at ME for kicking her dogs. I not-so-nicely reminded her that we were in the middle of the friggin' road and that she should consider a different method of confinement since the previous week one of the dogs got hit by a car!

I guess the only reason I brought this up is to point out how unsecure these fence systems are. If these little min pins can get out, they don't stand a chance for a bigger dog. When I was a kid, my aunt & uncle's neighbor had an invisible fence for their dalmatian, Doc. I vividly recall him running towards the fenceline. He'd start screaming as soon as the beep started, but he'd keep on running until he was free. It took about 20 seconds and he was gone.

Okay. Tangent done.