Help! Hardware cloth question

[Crusty McPottydoodle]

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Hi country freedom - Maggie is a rescue dog from our local city pound. They claimed she is an Australian Shepherd cross (which she is definitely not). On a chance look through a dog breed book I came across an Austrian Pinscher photo and it was the closest I have seen in looks to Maggie, so we think that she likely has some of that. She has those very strange ears which I had never seen on a dog before. She was found emaciated and chained to a tree deep in the woods by a couple of hikers. She had given birth not long before we got her.

Here is a pic of her having a sleep with her cat - or is it the cat having a sleep with his dog?

Cheryl

 

[Crusty McPottydoodle]

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They sound like something I might want for my chicken run to be. I am hoping to have a somewhat movable run but also easy to secure and cover.

Thanks for any info

Hi Socks,

We have made a series of panels that are designed to link together and link to the chicken house. Each panel is 3ft square (except the ones that attach directly to the chicken house given height contraints. The panel that attaches to the house closest to the chicken door/ramp is hinged to the next panel to allow for easy access.

I will post photos once the whole set up is complete and assembled - this should be this evening.

In the meantime we have a very temporary and not particularly secure set up for day time running around using a portable dog exercise run with plywood over the top. I work from home and have a fairly decently fenced backyard, so they should be fine until we can get finished this evening.

Cheryl

 

[Zahboo]

I would put it on the outside. If a predator jumped against it on it with the wire on the inside of the posts, then a screw nail whatever came loose, it'd leave a entry hole. I may not understand the question if that be the case ignore me. I put my wire on the outside of the frame, and if it needs to look good, put trim board over it.

 

[Lucycollie]

About your dog, Maggie . . . I'm a dog genetics junkie so I have to comment.

Her kind of ears (fold and point forward) are called button ears. Some breeds have them but they can sometimes show up in a mix breed when certain charactoristics are just right. A button ear is basically in between a prick & drop ear. To get a button ear, the ear set has be fairly high and the ear leather has to be just the right weight - too light and the ear goes prick, too heavy and the ear flops sideways (rose ear) or down (drop ear). The button ear doesn't necessarily come naturally even to breeds that are supposed to have them - a lot of terriers have to have their ears taped (the ear is taped to the forehead) when young, otherwise their ears go up or sideways.

She's a sable which makes it very doubtful that she's has much or any Australian Shepherd (sable is not found in the breed). I don't see German Pincher either - I know a few and they are much more fine boned with a sharper, more severe face. Otherwise I don't see any strong hints to the breeds in her ancestry. I suspect she's from multiple generations of mix-breeds and would call her a classic All-American. Or you can do as a friend of mine down in Pittsburgh did - he has, Jack, a distinctive looking mixed breed who loves to fetch, and calls him a Monongahela Retriever. A very exclusive & rare breed (only one!) and I must say that Jack is the finest Monongahela Retriever I've ever seen. ;-)

 

[Zahboo]

Maggie reminds me of a sharpei/lab a friend used to have

 

[Crusty McPottydoodle]

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Hi Lucycollie,

I agree with you that she doen't look anything like a german pinscher, but an Austrian Pinscher is rather different.

Her ears are very wild - when she is in hunter mode, they point directly forward toward her eyes. When she is trying to be cute and get some attention (in addition to shoving toys in one's lap), she points her ears straight out the side and looks very much like Yoda - sometimes she just does one - I read that is referred to as having bat ears.

Cheryl