A guided tour of Kayleigh's new pen..

**mtn_chick** · 12-19-2005, 07:29 PM

Whatta SWEET pen for one lucky dog! Of course, ALL your dogs are lucky! Tell me about fencing - I've never gotten so good and fast at putting up thousands of feet of fencing. Have you ever figured out how MUCH the fencing has cost!? Quite a bit - but worth every penny of course.

I esp. love the double fencing. That's a darn good idea.

How many pens do you have in total?

**Glacier** · 12-19-2005, 07:58 PM

Originally Posted by mtn_chick

Whatta SWEET pen for one lucky dog! Of course, ALL your dogs are lucky! Tell me about fencing - I've never gotten so good and fast at putting up thousands of feet of fencing. Have you ever figured out how MUCH the fencing has cost!? Quite a bit - but worth every penny of course.

I esp. love the double fencing. That's a darn good idea.

How many pens do you have in total?

Don't even want to think about how much the fencing has cost so far! Stuart figures it's cheaper than another vet bill like the ones we had after the wolf came through! Fortunately, our friends will work for steak and beer which reduces the labour costs! Lots of the chainlink is scavenged. Stuart brought him 3 rolls of it from the dump this fall!

We almost lost Pacer to injuries suffered when his head got stuck in the fence once. He was yipping at Antare and then couldn't pull his head back out. A big ol' pack fight broke out when Pacer freaked. So now most of the fences are doubled like that--any fence line that is shared with another pen is doubled for sure.

There are six pens, plus the perimetre fence. Raven, Antare, Deuce and Mac share the biggest pen. Chase and Goldie have another huge one, but that one is getting split in half in the spring. Sundin, Chum and Pacer have one. Kayleigh has her own. Ozzy and whoever goes in there that day have Kayleigh's old pen and Deuce has a very small pen for sleeping & eating(also the hookup area for the sled). Raven needs a regular break from him or she's inclined to beat the bejezzus out of him! The rest of them rotate through the main yard and the other pens. Most of them get along so I can mix and match who goes in which pen!