we have fence both here in fl and at home, altho bud has managed to get out of the front door(just fenced in back yard at home) once he was gone for overnight, thought we had lost him for sure, but son on his way to work found him trying to come home, bud wouldn't let son catch him so son called us and woke us up to tell us bud was running down the middle of the road home, needless to say, we were so glad to have him home safe and sound, hes also our last schipperke, pretty little dogs but too hard on the heart, husbands lst schipperke, we lost at 7 , he got liver cancer and by the time he started with symptoms it was too late