For the past few months, we've had to coordinate letting our dogs into the backyard with our neighbor. Our old, dilapidated, rustic-looking fence finally collapsed under the weight of the neighbor's dog, an enthusiastic pit bull-mix puppy. W (for the sake of anonymity) liked to jump on the fence and try to get over to our side, either driven by the desire for new human acquaintances or by the allure of both Lilah and Ritter. Just for the record, W succeeded a couple times in crossing over to our yard.
Well, Ritter would have nothing of the sort and the two would have at it (Lilah doesn't really notice the presence of other dogs). At first we all tried to mend the fence with wooden planks, particle board, metal grates, and poles to prop up the fence. All it did was offer W more purchase when trying to jump up the fence. So, in order to keep the peace and what little hope we had of preserving the fence, we had to call our neighbor and make sure that her dogs (W and B, a friendly, but older black lab) were in when ours were to go out.
It was inconvenient, tiring, annoying and sometimes not well coordinated. It created a lot of stress for dogs and humans alike.
So my mom and our neighbor finally came to an agreement. After this past week of workmen chopping down five huge trees and putting in a brand new fence, the dogs were finally able to run free in a much wider yard without worry of an unexpected puppy visitor.
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