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carguy asked in PetsDogs · 1 decade ago

How can I get my dog to stop jumping my fence?

I didnt believe it myself at first but my beagle can jump a 7 foot wooden fence. How can I get her to stop without chaining her up?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    There are harnesses that you can get that prevent a dog from jumping but do not limit it's normal movement. It basically keeps the dog from extending the back legs far enough to get any height.

    Here is just one that I found when I typed in "anti jump harness"

    http://www.gundogsonline.com/ProdDtl.asp?iDeptID=1...

    I used one like it on my German Shepherd and it stopped her from getting over the fence.

  • 5 years ago

    The issue is that dogs are poor generalizers - it's not that the dog is "sneaky, greedy" etc, but that they have no intrinsic sense of morality or "rightness" and so only think something is "bad" if it has bad consequences. If it has never had bad consequences except with a human in the room, then how on earth are they to know that the rules still apply with the human out of the room? You need to train in such a way that corrections and rewards occur when the dog does not think you are present - i.e. hiding around the corner. Read here https://tr.im/OlhCJ

    I personally owned a Labrador Retriever (read: chow hound) that could be left 6" from a hot dog in a sit-stay for half an hour and not touch it - the word was "mine" and it meant that you don't touch that, even if I am not in the room, even if whatever, you DO NOT touch that. You could leave a plate of food on the floor for hours and not only would she not touch it, she would also keep the other animals (dogs and cats) from touching it.

    In all probability, these dogs studied were just not properly trained/proofed before the experiment. With "proofing" to set them up and catch them in the act to give

  • 2A
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Bigger fence....I don't believe a beagle can jump a 7 foot fence unless climbing up on something. Ck the bottom..there is a hole somewhere. We had beagles and could not figure how they were getting out for months until we called them chewing through wire and digging and squeezing under the bottom. Put the bottom in cement or bury it......no chicken wire..use turkey wire or heavy chain link...........

    Source(s): Years with dogs...
  • 1 decade ago

    You should get a Coyote Roller

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  • 1 decade ago

    They make a jump harness, but use it to teach not as a solution. When he gets too close to the fence tell him NO and give him a squirt with a hose or water bottle.

    Source(s): trainer
  • Laurie
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    You may need to add an additon to the fence with a top piece leaning inward. This way he cannot go straight up and over.

  • 1 decade ago

    Just get a long leash and "chain" her up...its probably the only thing that will work. My dog would always run out of her electric fence and attack other dogs, so we had to leash her up, but she have about 100 feet of leash so she can still get around the yard find. She got used to it after a while.

  • 1 decade ago

    you need to stimulate her mind more she wants to explore and do things, hide a thing of peanut butter and maker her find it. giver her more exercise and tell her no its wrong to jump fences.

  • 1 decade ago

    easily just make the fence more higher so he wont jump over it

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    it may sound silly, but my suggestion would be to get a higher fence, otherwise you cant really do anything.

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