Schnoodle Dog ContainmentKeep your Schnoodle safe. Get a dog containment fence, tie him/her up, or just put up a traditional yard fence. Schnoodles have high energy and will run off is not contained.
Tie-upsA tie-up rope is a sufficient form of containment, but probably the least enjoyable for your Schnoodle. They can get tangled around things and cause harm to themselves if the rope winds around parts of their body. The tie-up rope should be used mostly for a temporary containment method until one of the better ones, listed below, can be installed. There are many tie-up products at PETsMARTElectric Dog Contaiment Fence
There are many more choices out there today for dog containment fences, such as an electric, radio frequency (RF) dog containment fence.
All you do is bury a wire provided in a RF containment kit and then put a receiver collar on your Schnoodle. The receivers come in various sizes to accommodate any size dog. You then set the boundary radius for the wire on the transmitter box. This is the distance from the wire where your Schnoodle will hear a tone. You will put up white flags (provided in the kit) to show your Schnoodle where his/her boundary is. Then walk your Schnoodle on a leash along the boundary and allow the tone to sound. When the tone sounds, pull him/her back into the yard. Do this for about a week. Repeat all of this without the leash using word commands. The closer your Schnoodle gets to the wire the quicker the tone will sound and eventually a mild shock (kind of like a static shock) will be transmitted through the collar to your dog. It will only take a few times of getting shocked for your Schnoodle to learn the consequences of testing its boundaries. After about a month of your Schnoodle obeying the boundaries, begin to remove every other white flag. Repeat this every other day until all the flags are removed. For more information on the best electric fence company I know of, check out Radio Fence (Pet Safe) Traditional Yard Fence
One other form of dog containment is, of course, a tradition yard fence. This is probably the most costly method, but is the most common.
The only warning I will give you if you put in a yard fence is make sure the fence is tall enough to prevent your Schnoodle from jumping over it. I ran into this problem with Rodney. We had a 4 ft. picket fence. He eventually learned to jump over it. We had to train him not to. Part of the unexpected training came one day when he tried to scale the fence and caught both paws in between the spokes. Fortunately, he didn't severely injury himself, but he did stop jumping the fence in fear of ending up stuck again. |
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