[nagdu] Running without a fenced yard

[Larry D Keeler]

I let Holly run loose in the country. But, I do this with both my kids and 
usually a couple more people and dogs. We can be out watching them. My 
inlaws have 5 acres they love to play on.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danielle Antoine via nagdu" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
To: "Debby Phillips" <semisweetdebby at gmail.com>; "NAGDU Mailing List,the 
National Association of Guide Dog Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Running without a fenced yard


> Wow well I'm gonna chime in here. So I didn't allow my working pups to
> run off leash. But I learned the hard way that even a fenced yard is
> NO Guarantee because the neighborhood kids would I assume is was kids
> anyway would come and open the gate and let my first dog out. About
> three times this was done, I would let him run to the bak of our
> property to relieve and then call him back after a time. 1. the smell
> was horrendous during the summer and 2. After he was recovered by us
> one day I had to resort to leaving him out all day and go to work
> because the van had arrived and the police had to be called by me to
> help search for him. He was always recovered unharmed but I would
> never ever do this again. I never heard it but supposedly occasionally
> Seeing Eye will read a letter from a graduate who didn't have a happy
> ending with his dog running free. Now seeing both of my dogs were
> retired to my parents country property I didn't have much say about
> them being restrained or not. I am done retiring dogs to my mom's care
> though. Truthfully, I was done after the first but I will always
> insist on keeping future dogs or the school taking them back if I
> don't have relaiable and suitable folks to take them.
>
> Danielle
> P.S. Where do you get a FlexiLeash from?
>
>
> On 1/19/15, Debby Phillips via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Hi Tracy, I am glad you like the flexi leash. It did not work that well 
>> for
>> me. I was always getting tangled up. Lol. I think it was a matter of 
>> klutz
>> on my part.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Jan 19, 2015, at 7:01 AM, Tracy Carcione via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> There was a lot of discussion about dogs running free recently.  I 
>>> didn't
>>> see any mention of the Flexi-leash, so I'll mention it.  When I lived in
>>> an
>>> apartment, I let my dog do some running on the Flexi-leash in a nearby
>>> un-fenced area.  It's not quite the same as running loose, but the dog
>>> can
>>> still enjoy herself at a distance while being under control.
>>> I still use the Flexi with Krokus in my fenced yard.  He is more
>>> interested
>>> in eating sticks and leaves than running around, and I want to have
>>> control
>>> over where he goes and how long he hangs out in one place.
>>> The Flexi isn't cheap, but it should last for years.
>>> Tracy
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Debby 
>>> Phillips
>>> via nagdu
>>> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 6:30 PM
>>> To: Nimer Jaber; NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide
>>> Dog
>>> Users; buddy at brannan.name; nagdu at nfbnet.org
>>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] guide dog and parents issue
>>>
>>> I hate to tell you this, but there are dogs who probably never get to 
>>> run
>>> and play freely.  And they are fine.  They get enough work with guiding
>>> to
>>> get exercise.  Sure, in an ideal world, it would be great for dogs to 
>>> get
>>> to
>>> run and play off leash.  But it just DOESN'T happen always.  My first 
>>> dog
>>> didn't get those opportunities, I lived in an apartment, no fenced yard,
>>> and
>>> so she did not get those opportunities.  My third dog rarely got those
>>> opportunities either, same reason.  By then I was a little looser with
>>> what
>>> my dogs could and couldn't do, but still I had no fenced yard, so only
>>> when
>>> I went to visit my parents who did have a fenced yard was she able to 
>>> run
>>> and play.  Now that I'm married and a home owner things are different.
>>> But
>>> truly dogs survive and do quite well, whether they get to run off-leash
>>> or
>>> not.  I think that what you just wrote could be dangerous.  It might 
>>> lead
>>> to
>>> someone with a brand new dog to let that dog be off leash in an unsafe
>>> place, thinking that they are allowing the dog freedom.
>>>
>>> Do I think it's great that dogs can be off-leash? Yes, but is it
>>> a necessity? No.    Peace,    Debby and Neena
>>>
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