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DobieLover said:
Hello and welcome to BYC! :frow Glad you joined.

What gauge and spacing wire is that? I have 1/2" 19awg wire and have seen attempts at chewing through but no real damage.
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It’s 1/4”, 23 gauge. I’m considering an overlay similar to what you have or a hot wire. People abandon their dogs out where we live. In addition to our three, we have a Blue Lacy/Lab mix that showed up starving about a year ago. It’s possible this coop is going to get a lot of pressure. That being the case, do you think the thicker wire would hold?
 
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GrovesEdge said:
It’s 1/4”, 23 gauge. I’m considering an overlay similar to what you have or a hot wire. People abandon their dogs out where we live. In addition to our three, we have a Blue Lacy/Lab mix that showed up starving about a year ago. It’s possible this coop is going to get a lot of pressure. That being the case, do you think the thicker wire would hold? I was also considering a hot wire.
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P.S. The Lacy is either indoors with us or supervised outside. It wasn’t her! If you know Lacys, you understand the need to explain! 😉
 
janiedoe said:
Welcome to BYC.
One of my dogs, a boxer, chewed a small hole in my 19ga hardware cloth once but I've never had anything else get through. One of my smaller runs is a little further from the house. Its a 10 x10 chainlink kennel covered top to bottom with hardware cloth and the door is framed to keep anything from squeezing through. I like the double protection.
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It’s funny. I thought I was being kind of a nut going over the coop before they got here and trying to reinforce even the smallest gap. Crazy that it almost wasn’t enough! I like the idea of your double barrier!
 

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