RR645 wrote:The doggy has an expensive set of choppers...

Too right!!!!
That is a motivating factor... every month this year I've been hit with some extra unplanned for expense...been trying to get my head above water all year...
The dogs have figured out how to unlock the gate and lift its lever. Not an easy task...the lock switch is very small and tight...they must be scratching at it till it pops open...
Now I need to put a 2nd identical gate in front of it.....which may only slow them down...
At the moment they are confined to little indoor cages which means extra long walks in the morning and afternoons...which actually may be the best thing to do...safer for everybody and the dogs actually get more of a work out than if they are just left in the tiny yard stressing at each other and everything that moves by the house all day...
and I'm doing the walks one at a time too as 3 at once is like a Ben Hur chariot race...
As well as finish off the kennel I started, plus a few other anti great escape ideas...would love to put in one of those huge bamboo entrance gates but it would not withstand the dogs...but I still may get one just so they can't see who is walking by and put it in front of the aluminium gates...
Like this....
http://item.rakuten.co.jp/mnkmok/295982/I think our modern design home will go with anything...
Kids are cheaper...just as well the dogs haven't figured out how to use a keitai or they'd want one of those too...