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Ninja -- please don't "rub it in" -- I know that right now he would rather be in the house or being free to run the whole yard -- did you not read where I just got a side door installed in my garage so that I can bring him in through it -- I was having to bring him inside through the Dining Room  -- mud flying on the curtains, walls, doors, even the ceiling --  then into the garage.  The side door has helped tremendously.   Just bringing him down from the kennel through the main yard he gets very muddy (and so do I).  I have to "hose him down" before I bring him into the garage.   The mud is so bad that my boots get stuck, and I almost walk out of them. 

Yes, right now, I'm sure he is bored.   I'm trying to take care of each problem.   It "ain't" easy !!

Ninja -- OK, I am just a little "edgy" today.  

Garages are for cars ????   My car has NEVER seen the inside of my garage.  It is full of Furniture, Baby Car Seats, Hi-Chair, Playpen, Toys, a Big Block Chevy Engine, numerous '57 Chevy car parts, Treadmill, Tools, and various Misc. items -   It was a MAJOR accomplishment just to get my son to move his '57 Chevy out of my garage .... when the car was still here, he did ask me to push it out of the garage in case the house caught on fire - hahahahaha    I "think" he was kidding....

This brings to mind years ago when our pit bull Hacksaw chewed thru the brake lines on my truck.

Pharaoh one day last summer decided that the irrigation lines were a doggy chew toy.  So, even though they were along the fence and behind bushes, he pulled it out and chewed it up.  Luckily,   he did not dig up the underground lines going to the fruit trees.

He does not get to go out without supervision.

In my next house I will get kennels.  I really like the ones that Kim (Just K9s) has at her place.

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I spoke to them and they are really nice.

Michele

My sister used garden paving stones under her kennel.

Maggie, I feel your pain.  Our yard is also a marsh from Oct until it's covered with snow and again from March - June and anytime it rains over the summer.  To make matters worse, since I've gone from one calm dog to three crazy dogs, they've tore up a lot of the grass, so it's just mud.  Right now my fenced in yard is in "good shape" which means the dogs are allowed on the front half of the fenced area (back half of the fenced area is like quicksand and the non-fenced areas are still standing water).  When the snow first melted I spent a week bathing all three dogs in the icy hose water everytime they went out, then gave up on that and just drove them to a church or park just to potty them!  Our problem is a combination of the local soil, the yards to the north and south both being elevated, improper drainage off our roof, and the dogs.  But since we rent there is really nothing I can do unless I'm spending my own money.  The house we rent has actually been for sale for years - since before we moved in - and not a single person has come to see it.  There's plenty of rentals for sale on our block, no one in their right mind would buy ours with an acre of property under water!!  I told DH when we look for our own house to buy it's going to be on the highest section of the block!

No picture of the damage.  The Fence Company came out and reinforced each corner with 4 rows of Flat Bar.   So far, so good.   He really doesn't appear to mind being in the enclosure.  It is 18 ft x 24 ft.   Put up a 10 ft x 18 ft Tarp.  There are also trees overhead -- they are just not in bloom yet.  I also have a Fan up there, and turn it on in the afternoon if it gets hot.  When he chewed the hole, I don't think he was trying to get out -- I think he did it "just because."    This morning when I took him from the house, he ran around the yard awhile and we played fetch.   Then I walked into the Kennel and he followed me in there....I closed the gate, and he didn't bark or appear to be upset that he was in there.   Time will tell.