Once I was there and he escaped, and after a frantic few minutes we found him on the sidewalk of the hiway. I couldn't believe he'd gotten so far, so fast. We both just about died of fright. 5 more seconds and he would have started out across the hiway, no doubt.
That kid needed a leash, and no one who knew anything about his antics would have blamed her one bit. He was scary !
My twin girls escaped our house when they were 2 or 3. I think they climbed over the gate in the family room.
I know they got together and pushed the chair next to the front door, and unchained the front door. Then they unlocked it and ran outside.
My husband thought they were safe, and he was taking a shower. I was running an errand.
When I drove up, the neighbor was bringing them home.
We then changed the type of lock we had on the front door.
They are really well behaved now (almost 12), but they were stinkers when they were little. I’m hoping they won’t be stinkers when they are teenagers.
We moved to a house that backed up to a pond.
Since we had dogs, the first thing we did was fence in the back yard.
My daughter, who was about three at the time, would make a beeline for the fence facing the pond the minute she ever got into the back yard, and she’d start trying to climb the fence.
Our border collie would get up behind her, gently grab the rear of her pants, and gently pull her down.
Had to put her to sleep earlier this year (the dog, that is).
She’d gotten blind, semi-incontinent, and we had to give her insulin injections twice a day. After about six months of this, she decided she’d had enough and started snapping at us before we even started giving her an injection.
And when she decided she didn’t want to go through it any more, she bit my son. Anybody who is familiar with border collies knows how out of character this is for them.
And when she did this, we knew she was telling us it was time.