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Often we want to keep the dog out of main garden so shut front door and they can play on the patio.

Elvis always climbed onto to wall to look about but never got further.

New dog Ozzy has other ideas. He jumped down to the garden area through the gaps to the right of where Elvis was.

You can see I put thin rope across so he couldn't get through.

But today he climbed on top and jumped down.
It's just over 6' drop so he'll hurt himself. And if the main gate is open, he could escape.

Now need a plan to keep the bugger in

Top of wall is about 8" wide

Any ideas?

Old dog Elvis in these 2 shots

Bit of bamboo screening stuff? Comes in rolls* and can be cut to size.


*Bit like the baker round my way who was arrested the other week, apparently.


Ps. I did tell ya that anything collie-like would be a twat.

I saw a very similar spanielly type dog throw himself straight off a 10ft wall onto the beach. I gasped at his lucky escape (he landed like a bag of spanners but seemed absolutely fine) and then 2 minutes later he did it again.

DefTrap wrote: Thu Jan 29, 2026 12:57 pm I saw a very similar spanielly type dog throw himself straight off a 10ft wall onto the beach. I gasped at his lucky escape (he landed like a bag of spanners but seemed absolutely fine) and then 2 minutes later he did it again.

Yeah my mum had a springer, abolutely bonkers dogs!

My mate over in The United States of Amnesia has a wire buried in the soil and the dog has a collar that buzzes and emits a high frequency sound if the dog gets within a few feet of the wire. After a few weeks / month or so, the dog stays in the garden. He's used it on both his dogs, beagles, rescued from research labs and they've been fine. As you can imagine, their lives are infinitely better than before.

Buckaroo wrote: Thu Jan 29, 2026 2:32 pm He's used it on both his dogs, beagles, rescued from research labs and they've been fine. As you can imagine, their lives are infinitely better than before.

And I bet they've quit the fags as well.

When my old man first got his dog he put electric fencing where he didn't want the dog to go. He took it down two weeks later, the dog never bothered to try those areas again. The hound is now nearly 20 and moved next door to the old man's house when he died. She still goes up to the house but never goes near where the electric fence was.

Buckaroo wrote: Thu Jan 29, 2026 2:32 pm My mate over in The United States of Amnesia has a wire buried in the soil and the dog has a collar that buzzes and emits a high frequency sound if the dog gets within a few feet of the wire. After a few weeks / month or so, the dog stays in the garden. He's used it on both his dogs, beagles, rescued from research labs and they've been fine. As you can imagine, their lives are infinitely better than before.

There is a potential problem: dog in hot pursuit of eg a cat can run through the border - but can't get back inside.

Buckaroo wrote: Thu Jan 29, 2026 2:32 pm My mate over in The United States of Amnesia has a wire buried in the soil and the dog has a collar that buzzes and emits a high frequency sound if the dog gets within a few feet of the wire. After a few weeks / month or so, the dog stays in the garden. He's used it on both his dogs, beagles, rescued from research labs and they've been fine. As you can imagine, their lives are infinitely better than before.

A mate has one of those (on a big open garden that would be impossible to fence) and by and large it works well, you can see the dog barking at you from afar when you walk past but he won't move across a certain point. I don't think it's even on any more. But occasionally the dog (a big, really stoopid, lab) just 'forgets' and finds himself outside the normal limits. That's it, he's gone.

A neighbour had one of those boundary deterrent things. His Jack Russell still spent more time in my garden than his.

It certainly didn't have any effect on one of their horses which wandered past my bathroom window one morning having strolled up the road and decided to investigate our back garden as an alternative paddock!

I would probably go for the wire ones. Unsightly so spray them white but they would probably just be temporary. Cats hate them and so will dogs. They will fold down under the weight of a dog but the dog will find it uncomfortable enough to stop doing it. The blown plastic ones may do but the strips are quite thin.


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porter_jamie wrote: Fri Jan 30, 2026 12:17 pm https://photos.app.goo.gl/rGiuXJuoiPbhPAKk8

That looks so much like our Springer Elvis who we lost in August.

Very cute

Put planters along the wall where Elvis's rear legs are standing so the dog can't use it as a step.

Or simply tie a length of piano wire around his bollocks with the other end attached to the patio table.

dern wrote: Fri Jan 30, 2026 1:19 pm Put planters along the wall where Elvis's rear legs are standing so the dog can't use it as a step.

Good plan.

gremlin wrote: Fri Jan 30, 2026 1:38 pm Or simply tie a length of piano wire around his bollocks with the other end attached to the patio table.

He's only got one at mo. When t'other drops, they're coming off

Round metal poles (painted white) bracketed to the wall from floor up and tie wrap some netting/mesh to them.Would look better if on the wall itself but the pillars might be a problem as he'll still be able to climb on them (and he'll soon realise he can use his weight to bend the mesh over the upper part of the wall.
Or could do similar with perspex panels and 90 degree brackets to the pillars, put wood down the front face of the pillar to match the overhang of the caps (then screw perspex into the wood), but at least Elvis could still sit there and survey. Butt the panels at the centre of the middle pillar to stop him climbing on the pillars.