Our garden is tiny...mainly walled with a half fence on the half wall between us and neighbours to left.
My dear little girl has managed to make an escape route!
8 days ago she 'escaped' and I was convinced it was my OH being negligent. (doh will now have to apologise)
She showed me tonight where she found a way out.
Up through a tiny space...alomg the wall and down into neighbours which is open to the main road.
Thankfully I caught her........this time.
Karen  :(

I know the feeling!!  I have a 200ft secure garden, and it has always been safe for the Collies.  When I took on the Chi's about 6 years ago, I was horrified to see, as I looked out of my bedroom window, 2 Chihuahuas chasing next doors Collie round it's own garden!

After scrutinising every possible escape route,  I found that it is very easy for Chi's to use hedgehog runs!  After blocking this, I never knew whether I had jailed the hogs in my own garden.  But, funnily enough, my dogs don't come in the house with ticks on them any more.  So I guess they are resident in someone else's garden now!

OH came home from dropping me at the station on friday morning to find Daisy in the front garden looking ever so pleased with herself. It appears that she'd jumped out of the front bedroom window, unto the "roof" of the front room bay window, slid over the guttering and landed in a Peony bush.

She's now known as Stunt dog!

I shut Whistler in the garden whislt we loaded some furniture in the garage, he got onto the potting shed roof, over the garage roof and launched himself off! his chin hit the deck he got up shook his head and greated me. Next day OH put up some 6 foot fencing by the potting shed roof!

Crikey...this is a new game!  Game on. 

After securing the obvious spot last night, today she did it again OH found her in next doors shed!

We have plans to reduce the garden greatly, she will not be happy. We are going to have to rent temoprary metal fencing to secure this further whilst the extension is built.

I've got an escape artist as well, I have just been and got some chicken wire to cover the section she's getting through in the fence and into next doors garden.  She really is a little monster, but I love her!

I am enjoying this thread. Cue music for Mission Impossible

Alison your lot could build a pyramid to chuck the top one over any hedge cue "The great escape music" !

Maybe so, but I don't know if they could be bothered and the boy isn't bright enough!!!!

By your picture they look like a retriever training squad!!! do you still have 4 or more?

Well I went up to five, (which would be more of a scaling height), then lost one, went back up to five again, but now back down to four. The photo was taken back in 2006 and so there are two new ones not on that photo.
Training squad!, just noticed that they look more like a firing squad!!!

Noooo..not mission impossible. Daughter playes trombone and just had end of term music concert.
She hasn't stopped whistling that tune.

Karen

Im my dark and distant past we had a lurcher who could escape from anything !! She would climb like a cat and could scale 6ft fences with ease, 8ft with little more than a standing start. It was immposible to keep her in without  securing her with a chain!!!
Not ideal but the only way she could be left outside without  supervision!!
Aileen

Since I got the stock fence and imprisoned all the hedges outside the garden the dogs can't shove through or jump over, although they often contemplate how they might get the pheasant in the field behind, sizing up the options and it doesn't help when your 11 year old son "bends" the fence to free himself from our strict regime LOL :-)

They've all lead me a merry dance over the fields.... Last time it didn't end too well as they all fell in a huge muddy rut and got washed off with the hose pipe... in February.

Whoops! sounds like fun for you with your boy too.
We have had one more escape, she was quickly retrieved, trouble is there is an escape route to a fairly busy road. She is not (yet) spooked by traffic and may feel it's her right of way :(
It seems sorted now....I dont like saying that....

Karen