This weekend we initiated a multi-weekend project that will ultimately culminate in a safe, fenced-in yard for Suka. We've chosen the area around and mostly to the west side of the garden shed, so we can double up garden shed and doghouse (we'll even retrofit a doggy door).
She's quickly outgrowing the kennel in our bedroom that she sleeps in, and it seems plain ol' cruel to pen her up in it during the day when we have to all be out doing the various things that we do in places that do not welcome dogs.
Also, she's not well-behaved enough (yet) to just roam the house... and she doesn't have a strong enough sense of territory and place (yet) to be trusted to hang around outside on her own... not to mention the risk posed by the strays and wild neighbors who can always be counted on to visit at the most inopportune moments. Additionally the picket line-style dog run we rigged for her was an epic fail because we have way too much scrub and underbrush everywhere and she's hopelessly tangled in about 30 minutes.
All that to say she needs a yard. A fortified, dig-proof and (mostly) weatherproof place to be in comfort and ease when the occasion arises where she has to stay behind and hold down the fort. So on this project we have labored, and I think we're in a pretty good place for next weekend when we initiate phase two: the fence.
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