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And we have electricity!

We’ve had the worst trouble keeping our dogs in our newly fenced in back yard. Obviously I’m talking about the two little dogs, not the soon-to-be-huge Leo pup. Katie had trouble at her old house - complete with chain link fence. For some reason, I naively thought a wooden fence might be better (not that that’s why we went with wood over metal). But unfortunately, that was not the case.

Once it became clear that no fence would hold the dogs for long, I knew what we had to do: it was electric fence time. It took us a while, but we finally got someone to string a line of electric wire around the bottom of the fence to discourage the dogs from digging. And it took him a while to get finished (you can’t rush quality work).

Incidentally, I still feel a bit guilty for not doing this job myself, but there are only so many chores you can do yourself in a house this size and age; sometimes you have to delegate. And he really did do a good job (he even put a new plug - dunno the technical term - under the back deck).

Anyway, the whole process was finally finished today, and I plugged it in when I got home.

And yes, I tested it. That should slow down the digging a bit, lemme tell you.