All four acres are fenced, a minimum of six feet high, up to 8 in some sections, most of it has a foot of wire buried underground, there is a foot wide section flat pinned to the ground as well to prevent digging under. It's split into six pens. To get anywhere in my yard, including the driveway, you have to go through a minimum of two gates. All the gates have latches with locks on them. The driveway gates have at least three different latches each. We use game fencing, the stuff that elk and bison ranchers use. Chainlink is a ladder to several of my dogs.

Even with the fence, my dogs have been known to escape. Delta got out of the fenced yard and was gone for a month. I have to watch which pen Anvik is in. He can clear a six foot fence without breaking his stride. Mac chooses to stay inside the fence now, but the first winter we had him, he let himself out at will. I'm sure he still could, he's just more comfortable inside now. Some of the dogs are allowed off-leash on walks. Some of them never are!

Even if I tethered my dogs, like most mushers, I would have a fenced dog yard. There are too many predators in this area who think dogs are an easy dinner.

I would be extremely hesitant about adopting a dog with a drop of husky in it's blood to someone without a fenced yard.