We use livestock fencing. It's eight feet high, has small openings at the bottom that get bigger as the fence gets higher. Then we run chicken wire or concrete underlay wire around the bottom of the fence line to prevent digging under. It costs us about 1.50 a foot. We installed it ourselves so labour cost me beer and pizza--fortunately my husband's friends work for cheap!!I used to have some pics of it on the computer, but I can't find them right now.
Our orginal small pen was chainlink. Muskwa thought chainlink was a ladder! He can not be contained with chainlink! With this fence, the only escape that can be blamed on the fence happened in a huge windstorm when a tree took out a section of fence. No self-respecting husky is going to let a chance like that slip by!![]()
Currently we have close to two acres fenced and divided into two pens--one is much larger than the other. This summer we are fencing the whole property--4 acres with the same kind of fencing. It will be divided further in three new pens--one for sick/injured/new dogs, one for Kayleigh, and one for Goldie and her boyfriends. Heyoka will get roam of the entire fenced area, the other dogs will stay where they are now. We are mainly putting it up to keep the wolves out next winter.
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