Found the Murderers!!

[ekemily]

Use livestock-grade electric fence, not something like Fido shock or electric poultry netting. My pit mix used to lick the Fido shock for fun (and it was installed properly).

 

[Debob]

I vote for the electric fence. Installed properly it will keep out husky's. They like to go over so make sure there's a hot wire on the top also.

 

[Chook-A-Holic]

Another vote for an electric fence and a good charger in addition to a secure run. I also keep my fence baited by hanging tin foil on the lines and keep a hot dog, cat food etc. on it most of the time. One bite and I promise you they will never forget. Just tonight I watched a stray try to get a bite and he got bit good. The 7wk old girls looked at him like he was nuts.

 

[SunnyChic]

Yet another vote for electric fence. After setting it up, both of my dogs hit it one time and now steer clear. My game cam caught this coon checking it out; haven't seen him since.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Hate to be the bearer of bad knews, but if they want through badly enough, electrical fencing will not work. My brother's beagle yelped real loud every time he hit the electric fence surrounding their garden. An electric fence had minimal affect at keeping the next door neighbor's springer spaniel from escaping their back yard; raising the wall to 8' worked.

 

[arch_cpj]

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Hate to be the bearer of bad knews, but if they want through badly enough, electrical fencing will not work. My brother's beagle yelped real loud every time he hit the electric fence surrounding their garden. An electric fence had minimal affect at keeping the next door neighbor's springer spaniel from escaping their back yard; raising the wall to 8' worked.

the way around this is to get some foil tape and pie tins every 3 - 4 feet put the foil tape so the dog can see the wire in between the tape wire up a few small pot pie tins the 3 inchers etc and smear the inside with canned dog food or Peanut butter what ever will get em sniffin also for keeping a dog out a good wed burner is the way to go no tickers... I use a fencer called the superbee it is a little jobber but puts out 9000 volts on the digital tester it will stop the dog Electric fence will stop em the only reason a dog goes through is at a charge and dont see the fence or the fencer is a ticker and he goes between the ticks hence the weed burner..

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Hate to be the bearer of bad knews, but if they want through badly enough, electrical fencing will not work. My brother's beagle yelped real loud every time he hit the electric fence surrounding their garden. An electric fence had minimal affect at keeping the next door neighbor's springer spaniel from escaping their back yard; raising the wall to 8' worked.

the way around this is to get some foil tape and pie tins every 3 - 4 feet put the foil tape so the dog can see the wire in between the tape wire up a few small pot pie tins the 3 inchers etc and smear the inside with canned dog food or Peanut butter what ever will get em sniffin also for keeping a dog out a good wed burner is the way to go no tickers... I use a fencer called the superbee it is a little jobber but puts out 9000 volts on the digital tester it will stop the dog Electric fence will stop em the only reason a dog goes through is at a charge and dont see the fence or the fencer is a ticker and he goes between the ticks hence the weed burner..

Oh, he knew the fence was there, it is just that the negative (shock) was outweighed by the positive (getting into the garden).

 

[AlaskGirl]

Okay, so we bought the Red Snap'r .75 Joule Output. Any feedback? The husband and son are installing four rows of live wire at the knee and higher. My fence is about 7 feet tall. Sadly, the dog owner feels pretty helpless about his control over the dogs. The prior husky owner/poster was right about his control.

They come around at night so I don't see calling Animal Control as an option, I'm left with someone staying awake around the clock. I will see if this fence helps, if it doesn't, we're forced to pull out the .22 buckshots. The dogs run when they see us but it only took them 45 minutes to come back this morning, and they did.

I won't keep my chicks in an outdoor coop any longer. We're on two acres and so is the dog owner, who is two lots over...the only certainty right now is that they will come back here.

 

[Jaguaress]

Your animal control should have dog traps available to catch nuisance dogs. Around here, you have to call early Monday morning to reserve them. They bring it out, set it up, bait it, and leave it until Saturday. You're supposed to call if anything is caught in it.

Since you know the owner of the dog, you can give them the information when they set the trap, so that they can contact the owner when it's caught. Otherwise, if it's a kill shelter and the owner doesn't turn up for it, it dies.

Alternatively, you can buy the humane wire traps in dog size. (I got mine at Southern States, if memory serves me.) Bait it with cat food and catch the dog yourself. Have a husky rescue organization waiting to come pick it up, as soon as it's caught. Problem solved and the dog doesn't have to die.

Hopefully, the electric fence will work.

My biggest problem with electric fence was not having it low enough, and making sure the posts didn't get wobbly, since we put stand-alone posts right beside the chain link.

Oh, and since he said he used chain link there's no reason why he can't put up electric fence, too. My dogs would pull up the bottom of chain link, so I had to go so far as to "sew" the bottom of the fencing with wire to attach it to the frame. That helped, as long as the wire held.

 

[AlaskGirl]

GREAT advice, I wonder why Animal Control didn't offer live traps after my second call. I'm going to call them after we see what happens with the fence.

The pen's distance from the house:

Working in the rain so we can see what tonight brings:

I think the live wire should include the door, don't you?? It seems pointless if the door doesn't have a live wire too.