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Glacier
07-25-2008, 10:21 PM
Franklin has been hanging out with Tehya during the day. He figured out she gets a treat to go in the pen in the morning. She actually gets a treat because she lives with Chum and he has to take his thyroid meds in the morning. Chum, Tehya and Pacer generally hang out together while I'm at work. Franky gets along with those three so I haven't been arguing with him about where he spends the day. He's a nice boy.

Tonight when I got home, an hour later than usual cuz I went grocery shopping, Franklin was in the parking area! We have a double gated driveway. Both gates are kept closed all the time and we park in between them. It's just a little extra husky containment system!

Everyone else is still in the back pen. I can't see where Franklin got out. There's no phone messages that someone brought him back. I don't know if Franklin would go to a stranger He can be quite shy, but he's come a long way. He does have ID on his collar with our address and two phone numbers. He's not hurt, no quills or anything. Just hanging out waiting to get back in the yard! It looks like he might have dug under the man gate to get in, but it's not a very big gap. The bottom of the man gate is lined with cinder blocks. The cinder blocks were moved a bit, but he still really would have had to squish and wiggle to get under there. There is definately some dirt kicked around though!

I'm very glad he's home. If he spent the day loose, I'm also thrilled that he's not hurt and that he knows how to get to the front. Franklin has never been out that gate! The dog team always leaves from the back of the yard and I never walk down the road. I take the trail out to avoid the neighbor's rottie and horses.

Franklin is not an escape artist. He's lived here for over six years and I can remember one other escape when a windstorm knocked a tree into the fence, before the entire place was fenced. All the dogs, I think there were 9 at the time, got out. Franklin was the first one home. A friend stayed here while I went husky hunting. I found Earle; when I brought him home, my friend said "I hope you have a black and tan dog cuz I just let one in your house! It was Franky.

I'm very confuzzled as to how he got out there and why no else went with him. You'd think Little Miss Trouble, aka Tehya, would have followed if there was an escape route. Weird, just weird.

Catty1
07-25-2008, 10:35 PM
Is he a large, strong, youngish dog? Maybe he jumped - if he found himself a higher launch pad in the yard?

That IS weird...

Glacier
07-25-2008, 11:20 PM
Is he a large, strong, youngish dog? Maybe he jumped - if he found himself a higher launch pad in the yard?

That IS weird...

He's 8 and a half, about 55 pounds, one of my best pullers. There's nothing near the fence though and it's over seven feet high.

I think I found the escape route. Chum showed me a spot where he could fit his head through. I was watching or I think he would have got out too It's just one broken tine in the wire but that fence is made from concrete underlay wire so it's got bigger hole in it. It would have been a tight squeeze for Franklin but all the Fireweed and grass is flat right at that spot, on the outside of the fence! Fortunately, it was an easy repair!

Still doesn't explain why only he left and how he got to the front though!

Catty1
07-25-2008, 11:31 PM
Still doesn't explain why only he left

He did it when nobody was watching.... ;)

Cinder & Smoke
07-25-2008, 11:52 PM
I think I found the escape route.
Chum showed me a spot where he could fit his head through.
It's just one broken tine in the wire ...
Fortunately, it was an easy repair!

Still doesn't explain why only he left and how he got to the front though!

If Franky got out through the hole Chum pointed out ...
Would he have been completely outside ALL the fences?

Could someone have found him and escorted him through the OUTER drive-in gate;
then closed him in the parking area as they left and closed the outer gate?

Or did he swipe the Gate Key from under the door mat?

:p

Glacier
07-26-2008, 12:16 AM
If Franky got out through the hole Chum pointed out ...
Would he have been completely outside ALL the fences?

Could someone have found him and escorted him through the OUTER drive-in gate;
then closed him in the parking area as they left and closed the outer gate?

Or did he swipe the Gate Key from under the door mat?

:p


yup, he would have been completely outside all the fences.

I have trouble picturing Franklin letting someone he didn't know catch him, but it's possible. It does look like he dug under the man gate. If he could get through that hole in the fence, he could wiggle under there. They are both pretty small spaces!

Cinder & Smoke
07-26-2008, 12:22 AM
It does look like he dug under the man gate.
If he could get through that hole in the fence, he could wiggle under there.

:rolleyes:

At least he knew to get back home before dinner!
:p