"Dangerous" GSD containment - fence heighth etc

[Alto]

If neighbors are involved, anything can happen

Facebook version of original article publsihed shortly after the incident

Trial

Conviction

I'd be concerned about poisoning before stabbing/shooting, can you set up security cameras & post a notice on your fence to this effect ...

[jake]

Think the kennel as shown is great.Just to say I would be willing to meet your so called 'dangerous dog' and have you meet mine.The saying "its not the dog its the owner"should be amended to say "good dog -responsible owner-sometimes an idiot can win.We have to sometimes go over the top-depending on where we live or neighbors or people we come in contact with.GSD RULE=they are great dogs.

[Strongheart]

Yes I've been keeping a low profile for the last 10 months while Rocky's hearings took place. We lost the first one which was a sham, so we went to court and won! His vicious and dangerous designation has been reversed! And it should have been because the whole thing was so ridiculous.

Yay for Rocky!

[paulag1955]

That is excellent news! Even though you knew you were in the right, it must be such a relief for you to have everything resolved in such happy fashion.

[sagelfn]

congrats!

[Strongheart]

Originally Posted by paulag1955

That is excellent news! Even though you knew you were in the right, it must be such a relief for you to have everything resolved in such happy fashion.

Thanks! We are so happy. Does anyone know the proper protocol for thanking our lawyer? He did a great job - he's the former chairman of the animal control board - which is why I wanted to hire him, because we wouldn't have had to go to court if he'd heard the case. He is a reasonable fellow. He was also an expert witness that the board who heard Rocky's case was acting out of character ;-)

Now I want to thank him. We are so happy for our big goofy furball! He is very happy too and such a good boy.

[swamprat1]

Even though I'm new here, congrats on the win. Also want to say thanks for all the advice I have read in this thread. I recently became owner of a two year old GSD last week. He is our first and so far is a really great dog. Only issue we really have is that he is indeed an escape artist. Lot of good advice here though that I will try to implement in the near future.

[Strongheart]

Hi Swamprat congrats on your pup!

I should mention that what we ended up doing was buying a bamboo fence. Each panel is about 6 feet long and 8 feet high. It is attached to our existing chain link with cable ties, yup, just cable ties albeit they are heavy duty cable ties about 18" long and rated at 100lbs I think. They are also black and thus UV resistant.

The bamboo is incredibly strong and since there is a little bit of spacing between the poles, the wind can go through but it is still a privacy fence. And we didn't need a permit for it because the permits department considered it a "screen" not a fence.

We did have a problem with the wind blowing it down on one side during a totally freak windstorm in April though. The permit guy had warned about that but he had said 'over time' the wind would push it over, not in 30 seconds The cable ties held the bamboo tight to the chain link and the chain link posts and rails went right over flat to the ground. So poor ol' DH pushed them back up. Apparently the chain link wasn't properly installed in the first place, post holes not dug deep enough. We buttressed the posts by just drilling holes in 4x6's (or something bigger than a 2x4) and again cable tying that to the post through the bamboo and having it lean against the post at an angle as a brace against the wind.

We got another wind test not long after fixing that and it was rock solid. Yay! The bamboo looks nice too, not like an ugly privacy fence made of cheap wood that will not last very long. The bamboo is tough stuff! We are extremely pleased with it and it was inexpensive! So now we have an 8' fence. Just thought I'd wrap this up with what we actually ending up putting up and how it worked out. We went through a lot of trial and error so if anyone else out there wants to get a bamboo fence to attach to their fence, be sure to buttress it and know which way the windstorms in the different parts of your yard blow most of the time.

It's so nice because we can actually see through it a little bit at certain times of the day so it doesn't feel like we're in a fortress, but actually we are.