Post by lpyrbby on Jan 19, 2009 18:26:08 GMT -5
Okay, this has been a random issue in the past that usually surfaces with change. The only thing that has changed much recently is that Mia and Penny, the fosters have been spending more time out together. With Penny's demodex, I was trying to keep the pooches separated to try to reduce stress levels. Dunno if that really worked or not though since she's still testing positive but anywho. The times they get let out of their kennels in the evenings hasn't changed. Nothing else has changed.
Cyrus has taken to escaping his kennel in the afternoons shortly before we get home I imagine. Now. Cyrus is 60lbs of dog. He's been housed in a Midwest Lifestages Double Door kennel next to our bed since his first day in our home. When we had to do renovations on the house last year was the first time he actually got out of his crate. We had to move the dogs downstairs into the kitchen for a couple of nights while we worked on painting and carpeting our bedroom. His escaping then was explainable.
After having him chillin' on the bed several times over the past couple of weeks after getting home and hearing him start to bust out of the kennel, I imagine that he is straight up headbutting the bottom of the crate door. It is bowed out. If we straighten it back up, he'll wind up bending it outwards again. The top latch on the kennel ALWAYS is latched. The bottom latch isn't latched anymore, but it hasn't been nosed or pawed over to where he would be messing with it specifically. It seems that he is headbutting the bottom of the crate door with enough force to pop out the bottom latch and then squeezes his 60lbs @$$ through the bottom sliver of opening on the crate. I went and bought 4 bull snaps to try to secure his crate that way. Naturally they don't all open wide enough to secure sections of the crate at the bottom of the door to keep him in. Only one would truly fit right. I snapped the bull snap to the handle part of the bottom latch and again to the next closest piece of wire on the crate which is still on the crate door. This ultimately is how I figured out that he was/is somehow pushing the crate door to where the bottom latch pops out and he squeezes through.
Naturally, he comes out with battle scars from this as well. I could possibly leave him loose in the bedroom, but he's notorious for getting a wild hair up his hiney and damaging window blinds. Our bedroom is upstairs so leaving the blind pulled up is not something I'm comfortable doing lest he become a kamikaze dog and think he can safely land on the ground after flying through the second story window.
I really don't have the extra money to spend on a damn solid steel crate but I really don't see any other options at this point. Look at what he did to his pretty smooshy face
Barooing at me because he knows I'm beyond frustrated...
Cyrus has taken to escaping his kennel in the afternoons shortly before we get home I imagine. Now. Cyrus is 60lbs of dog. He's been housed in a Midwest Lifestages Double Door kennel next to our bed since his first day in our home. When we had to do renovations on the house last year was the first time he actually got out of his crate. We had to move the dogs downstairs into the kitchen for a couple of nights while we worked on painting and carpeting our bedroom. His escaping then was explainable.
After having him chillin' on the bed several times over the past couple of weeks after getting home and hearing him start to bust out of the kennel, I imagine that he is straight up headbutting the bottom of the crate door. It is bowed out. If we straighten it back up, he'll wind up bending it outwards again. The top latch on the kennel ALWAYS is latched. The bottom latch isn't latched anymore, but it hasn't been nosed or pawed over to where he would be messing with it specifically. It seems that he is headbutting the bottom of the crate door with enough force to pop out the bottom latch and then squeezes his 60lbs @$$ through the bottom sliver of opening on the crate. I went and bought 4 bull snaps to try to secure his crate that way. Naturally they don't all open wide enough to secure sections of the crate at the bottom of the door to keep him in. Only one would truly fit right. I snapped the bull snap to the handle part of the bottom latch and again to the next closest piece of wire on the crate which is still on the crate door. This ultimately is how I figured out that he was/is somehow pushing the crate door to where the bottom latch pops out and he squeezes through.
Naturally, he comes out with battle scars from this as well. I could possibly leave him loose in the bedroom, but he's notorious for getting a wild hair up his hiney and damaging window blinds. Our bedroom is upstairs so leaving the blind pulled up is not something I'm comfortable doing lest he become a kamikaze dog and think he can safely land on the ground after flying through the second story window.
I really don't have the extra money to spend on a damn solid steel crate but I really don't see any other options at this point. Look at what he did to his pretty smooshy face
Barooing at me because he knows I'm beyond frustrated...
