Yes, they will eat anything. Our 8+ year old Max, used to eat some of the craziest things. He finally grew out of it, but I don't remember when. We're putting on a new deck and the new puppy Muffin keeps getting ahold of pieces of treated lumber - very bad news. So we constantly follow her around to find out what she's picked up now.

You are right mga416, they are masters of escape! We've called Max the "Houdini Weenie" for years. He is the fastest dog I've ever seen when the door is open - he is outside and GONE!! I've chased him down I don't know how many times. The only saving grace in this now is he's fat enough I can catch him. At our old house we had a chain link fence and Max (when he was small) would go running across the yard and it seemed like he would just duck down slightly and zip underneath the fence to run down the street like crazy. We used to have to use 3 people to corner him and catch him.

We do have 2 baby gates for the little dogs. An expandable bar type one keeps them from falling down the open basement staircase and an adjustable pressure X-mesh one keeps them out of rooms when we clean, paint or move furniture. The pressure one works about the best and they come in regular and tall heights.

For our yard, we finally don't have to bury the fence, but we live in the country and do have an unusual fence - not sure the name but it starts out at the top with 4"x4" spaces and that decreases down to 1"x4" spaces. So far it's worked fairly well since neither dachshund can get through it.

They are great dogs once they get used to the rules - I'm sorry - once they get you used to the rules. We have found they are worth their price in laugh value.

Here is Max and his baby sister, Muffin