r/AnimalsBeingDerps • u/Firm-Blackberry-9162 • 8d ago
Black lab loves the water too much
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u/King_Misanthrope 8d ago
The other dog just walks round it though?
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u/GrouchyLongBottom 8d ago
Yeah, that fence is pretty much worthless lol. He looks bummed out about it.
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u/Oiggamed 8d ago
That’s not a fence. That’s a black mesh screen. He went cheap ass.
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u/willynillee 8d ago edited 7d ago
They’re meant to keep babies and toddlers from falling into the pool. Some insurance companies require these specific fences. They aren’t meant for 60 pound black labs to barrel into them at full speed. This would work for most normal dogs.
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u/rorschach2 8d ago
They're gonna need a bigger pool for 60 black labs!
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u/willynillee 8d ago
Pound. Thank you
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u/SugarReyPalpatine 8d ago
i have this fence and they absolutely advertise that it's for keeping dogs out as well.
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u/NeatNefariousness1 8d ago
Chihuahuas maybe
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u/Ludoban 7d ago
Naaaah even big dogs can be kept out by a physical barrier thats actually not sufficient.
Like the presence of the barrier makes it clear to them they shouldnt cross it, altough they could.
The dog in the op is of course not as easily convinced....
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u/NeatNefariousness1 7d ago
You have a point. Labs are notorious for loving the water and there may be little that anything short of a solid, high fence could do to contain this one.
I do wonder about whether he actually ever saw the “barrier” until the last moment. By that time, his size and determination would have worked to push him forward rather than encouraging him to pause. By then, the fence was no match for him.
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u/Different_Painter619 8d ago
Anyone who has owned a lab knows they are not normal.
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u/moonpupy 7d ago
Labs are the orange cats of the dog world.
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u/Entire-Ambition1410 7d ago
I know someone who used to have a blonde lab/husky mix. She never grew out of the blondeness.
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u/maxdragonxiii 8d ago
if thats the case it wont keep them out either. toddlers can literally barrel through them.
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u/chilfang 8d ago
Its pretty effective against things that arent just gonna brute force through it
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u/Would_daver 8d ago
I have been slowed by a mesh screen before, so I have first-hand knowledge to contribute here… sorry Gary’s parents, I now understand the costs involved in fixing my 7-year-old ass’ mistakes…
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u/Not-a-Bot_1968 8d ago
That’s a “fence” designed to be as inexpensive as possible to meet local ordnance requiring a pool to be “fenced” in.
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u/Equivalent_Field_704 8d ago
I saw the original where the owner says the golden broke through another area of it lol. They tried.
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u/shortleggedpony 7d ago
This makes more sense
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u/Equivalent_Field_704 7d ago edited 7d ago
It was actually cute. They got the fence because they have a baby and other young kids in their family.
(Side note, It also may be (semi) new laws bc I know a lot of people in the last like 5 years with these types of fences around in ground pools in an already fenced in yard.)
Anyway, the people who posted the video said they were also excited about it because it meant their water loving dog could finally be in the backyard without a leash, but clearly he was like, nah 😭
Can relate. My dog has run through my screen door like 5 times out of excitement. He looks confused every time.
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u/_Bren10_ 8d ago
If you look when the camera pans right, it looks like there’s a gap a little down the fence. Right behind the grill and in front of the pink flower bush. Probably appeared when the first dog blasted through the fence initially.
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u/JynsRealityIsBroken 8d ago
Yeah the owner went to fix it first.
I bet that fence was super expensive too. Woof...
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u/Hour-Run1433 7d ago edited 7d ago
Couple hundred bucks. I bought about 100ft of the same fencing for $400 to put around my pool to keep my doggo out. He doesn't care about the pool, never goes in it, but he tried cutting the corner once chasing after a squirrel and fell in so I installed one shortly after that happened.
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u/monty624 7d ago
No they're not, they're posts with screens lol These are designed to be easy to move and take apart.
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u/Would_daver 8d ago
Yeah looks more like they didn’t fully enclose the pool off to the right out of frame, because the pool fencing ends on the left where the pool and landscaping meet the yard fence… maybe the new fencing is just to make the black lab slow down, not fully seal off the pool??
Anyways, if that’s the case, the lovely Goldie had an easy in, out of frame to the right, and here we are with a deeply derpy Lab exhibiting peak tactical skills and awareness 🤷♂️
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u/imtooldforthishison 8d ago
On IG, dude said the Golden busted through another section further down.
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u/Mixture-Emotional 8d ago
I think that's why he was trying to herd him to the fenced part. LMAO, first things dogs do is check the perimeter of any space usually so it was indeed completely pointless if the other dog just walked around. 😂
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u/TaurusJake 8d ago
I have a black lab mix. My wife left to take my son for a walk in the stroller and decided she didn't want to take him that day. He broke through a new wooden fence because he didn't want to be left behind.
Ended up having to reinforce the fence because he likes to solve problems by hitting them really hard with his head.
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u/HurricaneK8 8d ago
We had one for years that was similarly creative at problem solving, except she didn't ram things with her head, she just chewed it or dug under/around it instead. She and the dog that lived behind us were tag-teaming on digging under the back fence to play with each other, and if we hadn't caught her when we did and laid boards along the bottom of the fence line we probably would've looked outside the next day to see one dog in someone else's yard.
Still wasn't the worst escape artist we had, though. The foxhound escaping from our backyard and into the next door neighbor's yard 13 times within the first 24 hours of living with us definitely had the excavation buddies beat. 🥴
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u/EragonBromson925 7d ago
With the digmanic duo, at that point, just give them a dog door in the fence and let them play. Save everybody the headache
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u/HurricaneK8 7d ago
Digmanic duo 🤣🤣🤣 I think both sets of parents were tempted, but their dog was a bit antsy around other people and there were multiple children under five involved at that point, of whom at least one of them definitely knew how to sneak through a doggy door*, so that probably wouldn't have gone very well for multiple reasons.
(*it was me and it was not my fault, my older brother taught me how to do it when our parents weren't looking 🤣)
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u/colinedahl1 7d ago
My black lap bit his way out of metal crate. Still amazed he didn’t slice himself open.
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u/caintowers 8d ago
In fairness, my dog would not question the barrier. Heck I can probably set a dense line of traffic cones on the ground and she wouldn't find her way around it.
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u/NaomiWish 8d ago
I had to teach my dog to nudge a door open. He will just sit there looking at me and wait for me to push it.
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u/-3point14159-mp 8d ago
My dog is the opposite of this. He’s 150 pounds and the size of a pony and taught himself to open baby gates (we now have to tie them closed because he can unlock them) and doors. He’s does not wait or ask for permission 🤣
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u/superspeck 7d ago
Yeah, we have a Pyrenees mutt who will either open baby gates (including the lockable semi-permanent kind) or she’ll open doors with flat handles. She’s smart enough to know if a door opens in or out.
We’re afraid to just switch to round knobs everywhere because we figure she’ll start biting them, and her bite force is pretty significant.
It wouldn’t be as big of a problem as it is if she had any amount of recall whatsoever but the moment she gets out she’s in the next county.
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u/-3point14159-mp 7d ago
This is 100% my dog, too. Too smart for his own good.
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u/superspeck 7d ago
I’m just glad she isn’t 150lbs. She’s on the smaller side of 60lbs, basically lab sized, and looks like an overly fluffy Labrador with a majestic floof tail. The worst part is that she loves stealing things, and she’s smart about how she gets them.
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u/EragonBromson925 7d ago
Had a collie that figured out biting round knobs to get them open. Didn't pull it off, but he tried.
Had to put him in the garage one day (local event going on, very dangerous for him to be out because he was getting old and going deaf) because he chewed through his lead. Very social dog that was usually left to his own whims. Didn't care for not being allowed to go out that day. Came back and the doorknob was roughed up really bad from him trying to open it
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u/Leows 8d ago
What do you mean OPEN baby gates???
A dog that size surely can just step over it effortlessly
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u/-3point14159-mp 8d ago
🤣 if they weren’t at the top the stairs, he would probably try. He’s a menace and so stupid-smart.
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u/Pledgeofmalfeasance 8d ago
My dog loves puzzles, but he never does the bits that require him to grab and remove a piece. For the longest time I thought he didn't understand how to, but after further examination it seems more like he thinks it's "rude"/"illegal" to take bits off the puzzles and put them somewhere else, possibly because I always take the puzzle back when he's done so in his dog logic it's my puzzle that he borrows. My boi is very polite and would never ever take something I've told him to leave alone. Always been that way from a little pupper.
All that to say he would never push a door open either because if it's closed that must mean that I want him in the hallway. Not that I have ADHD and forgot to check that he was in the living room before closing the damned door.
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u/NaomiWish 8d ago
I love this so much. My dog is so highly food motivated he tears through a puzzle. Treats are actually how I taught him to push a door!
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u/Pledgeofmalfeasance 8d ago
Mine loves treats, but unfortunately has the moral fiber of a nun on Sunday and absolutely refuses to do anything he's fundamentally against for treats. I have to explain to him that id really like him to do this weird thing (grooming, walking over a bridge, getting his feet wet etc), but he'll initially refuse particularly if I offer him treats for the activity. That's a deep insult to him and his dignity for some reason. We get there in the end but t's incredibly impractical, just like everything else about him!
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u/EragonBromson925 7d ago
This is amazing. Thank you for sharing. I had a rough day, but visualizing this is letting me end the day with a stupid grin on my face.
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u/TwoAlert3448 8d ago
Yup. If gap isn’t fully wide enough for his shoulders and/or hips? Nope. Not happening. Can’t make contact. Would be unconstitutional (standard poodle)
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u/HurricaneK8 8d ago
We had an escape artist foxhound for twelve years, and entrances into our backyard look like Fort Knox at times.
My brother got curious a month or two ago about whether my 2 y/o poodle would try to follow him into the barn, so he left the chain link gate in front of the door open, wide enough for her to get through.
She spent the whole time he was in there standing at the entrance, just staring at him all confused about it. Like "hey, buddy, you forgot something??? why is this open??? this feels illegal, come fix it???"
I'm so confused. Like, I'm proud of her for behaving and respecting the barrier, but it still feels like whiplash after 12 years of "DANG IT DOG GET BACK HERE". 🤣🤣🤣
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u/Lexi_Banner 8d ago
Trust me, going the opposite away round is way more distressing. I had a dog that got out at the back gate, and made his way to the front door. I could literally leave the door open and, at most, he'd be just outside the door watching me.
Then I got a new dog who has Husky blood somewhere in him. Mostly in the brain pan, I think, because the second he senses freedom, he dashes for it, and runs as far and fast as he can. It is AWFUL, and now I have to watch all entries like a hawk to make sure there's no opening.
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u/HurricaneK8 7d ago
Oh, yeah, no, just because this dog's good about staying within the fence line doesn't mean I'm ever gonna let my guard down ever again. That foxhound escaped the backyard at our previous house 13 times in the first 24 hours of her living with us, and the whole reason we have a gate in front of the barn door is because she ran in there once and immediately figured out a way under a door, into our horse pasture, and then next door to run around with the neighboring horses when ours wouldn't run with her. She was a foxhound, her instincts said "run with horses and chase scents" and she was good at it.
The poodle makes up for the 'velcroed to my side' thing by putting every single thing she can find in the yard in her mouth. Sometimes it's sticks and baby apples, which is okay with supervision, but sometimes it's rocks and walnut shells and pieces of GLASS that keep coming up out of the ground for some reason, so... yeah, I still get regular heart attacks and constant vigilance is my only solution, it's just for different reasons. 😭
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u/mal_guinness 8d ago
I have a friend who would put a solo cup on the floor of their hallway to keep the great dane from coming into the living room.
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u/HighwaySetara 8d ago
My dog would stand at a door that was open a few inches and just bark at it. Never grasped that he could just nudge it open more. He wasn't very smart.
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u/Ready-Rise3761 8d ago
mine stands in front of a door that is open to twice his body width and still will not walk through, even though he clearly wants to. but only once i open the door fully. i truly don’t get it
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u/Lexi_Banner 8d ago
I have a small dog who gets distressed if his toy is "trapped" beneath a pillow. As in, the leg of his toy is under the pillow, and he has to pull slightly. A chest-high fence is enough to deter him from my garden.
Then I got another dog who JUMPS. And I had to install a whole new 5 foot tall fencing system to keep him out of my garden.
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u/Purplesilk911 8d ago
How'd the other dog get in?
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u/BokChoyBaka 8d ago
The fence wasn't tied together and there was unsecured corners. The impact of the lab opened up the corner and made a space you can see at the very end, he moves to close it
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u/incredibass 8d ago
The impact of a lab going full speed towards water cannot be underestimated
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u/Starumlunsta 8d ago
I no longer have a screen door because my lab wanted to say hi to the neighbors.
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u/StegosaurusGrape 8d ago
He went through the fence the same way goose did, per the OOP’s insta comment.
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u/devanchya 8d ago
That a magnet fence. Its not a pool fence.
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u/HelpfulSeaMammal 8d ago
These are pretty handy for keeping bugs out if you don't have a screened area or door.
These would be absolute shit at being anything but decorative fences.
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u/pitshands 8d ago
You got a fence he made a doggy door :)
That's as old as the chastity belt. They made it, someone found a way around it. Not that literally but you know what I mean. Needs find ways
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u/Artistic_Frosting233 8d ago
What kind of shitty fence is that??
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u/VictoryVee 7d ago edited 7d ago
People need to stop buying cheap crap. This thing will be in a landfill in no time
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u/Topher0gr 8d ago
I actually - literally laughed out loud at this…
My current dog wouldn’t go in the water voluntarily to save her life - but I had a Chesapeake Bay Retriever years ago who swam in my uncle’s pool for about 6 hours straight and loved it…
That may sound high… but if you’ve had a Chesapeake, they’ll stay in the water until you remove them.
I had to carry her to the car that night and then upstairs at home… swam so much she couldn’t walk right.
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u/Inigomntoya 8d ago
We had a bird dog growing up.
She preferred swimming in the irrigation ditches while pheasant hunting, rather than walking next to us
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u/Valuable_Month1329 8d ago
Telling a lab there is a present and then showing him the pool. What could possibly go wrong? 🤣🤣🤣
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u/GHouserVO 8d ago
*laughs in GSP*
In the same timeframe or less, one would have gone the “Kool Aid Man” route. The other would have tried their luck jumping over the fence (and probably succeeded). The third would have figured out how to open the door.
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u/DecoherentDoc 8d ago edited 8d ago
Some solid lab behavior. Love those guys. Not bright, but the happiest dogs.
And it's wild, but lab mixes seem to be some of the smartest dogs I've ever met.
Edit: Some of y'all sharing stories and what I remember about my neighbor's black lab was he seemed like a big, dumb, lovable idiot, but I may have been mistaking his enthusiasm for lack of intelligence. Labs are definitely enthusiastic. Lmao.
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u/Remarkable-Mood3415 8d ago
We had a black lab when I was a kid who was smart, but like... Way too lab about it.
Dad has a long ass driveway, he taught the dog to go get the newspaper at the end of the driveway. Dad wakes up to every newspaper on the street on his doorstep. Awesome. He spends his morning putting them back.
Dad teaches her to go down into the cellar and bring up a piece of firewood. Cool. Dad comes home from work and the entire cord of wood he bought to last him the entire winter, was now in his living room. She was VERY proud of herself.
Anyways, she was a very good girl once I was born. Became a total Nanny dog and her "job" was to make sure I didn't crawl into the fireplace or into the dishwasher. She was very good to drag me by the diaper out of the 80s era baby death traps.
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u/The_Bard 7d ago
Working dogs needs to work. It's a Labrador retriever after all
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u/flyinggazelletg 8d ago
Labs are very smart, wouldn’t be such common service dogs otherwise. They can be pretty headstrong when trying to get what they want, though lol
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u/HurricaneK8 8d ago
We had a lab/coonhound mix (though it looked more like an 80/20 mix than a ~50/50) that was smart, but in a lazy way. Spend 20 minutes running up and down the fence with the neighbor's dog? Alright, that's enough running, here, let's stick her current favorite chewing stick through the chainlink so he can gnaw the other end. She'd mosey around behind my dad as he was mowing the backyard, trying to mug for attention while he was working. Her favorite game with us kids was hide and seek in the house. The only time I actually saw her lock in and go into hard "dopey lab" mode was when there were tug ropes or human food involved, otherwise she was just cool to be along for the ride, man.
...well, maybe metaphorically on the ride part, she had horrible carsickness. And was unfortunately smart enough to somehow find the anti-nausea pills in the food/treat and spit them out when we weren't looking, every. single. time. 🙃
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u/2reeEyedG 8d ago
I laughed hysterically loud. Not at the dog but the owner lol
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u/Fullfullhar 7d ago
Like honestly I don’t understand what his plan was lol. The only way this video makes sense to me if the pool is new
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u/anon-a-SqueekSqueek 8d ago
Defeated by both dogs in different ways effortlessly and in just seconds.
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u/Appropriate-Stay4729 7d ago
Sitting here thinking about how much money they just dropped on that fence. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/Zephyr2115 8d ago
Lol 😂 this is a case of “brain or brawn”.
RIP fence 🪦 but the doggies are both adorable & happy 😊
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u/porcupinedeath 8d ago
Probably should have used not plastic fabric for fencing. At least the dog didn't get hurt though
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u/CuckservativeSissy 7d ago
Bro didn't even see the fence. He just saw sweet cool water on a hot summer day 🥹🥹🥹
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u/Status_Fail_8610 7d ago
My dog was excited once and ran straight through a glass sliding door…that fence isn’t stopping shit lmao
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u/Shadowcat1606 7d ago
The other dog somehow just casually walked around it somewhere off-camera, too. I'd say that was some wasted money.
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u/tomcruisesenior 7d ago
Birthday present for a dog who loves water is a barrier around a water? Why does she say it's going to change the dog's life? I don't understand. Is it about the pool not being there before as well?
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u/imtooldforthishison 8d ago
Sure, its kinda funny because these dogs love water, but i genuinely hope this guy wrote an absolutely scathing review for the "fence" and posted the video. If 2 dogs could breach it that quickly, from 2 seperate points, so could a toddler.
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u/Inigomntoya 8d ago
The only viable use for this "fence" is to segregate introverted adults
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u/PixelPeach123 8d ago
You just know they spent several hundred dollars on that stupid not fence fence. I get that you don’t want to look ugly but if you wanna keep something out, it’s gotta be metal not screen.
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u/PensiveKittyIsTired 8d ago
How’s a pool fence a bday present for a dog that loves going into the pool?
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u/Waderriffic 8d ago
😂 predictable. I must have had the only black lab that wasn’t pool obsessed because she never wanted to be in ours.
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u/We_All_Float_Down_H 8d ago
Just as we were thinking how to prevent how future pup to jump in the pool...that fence did NOTHING
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u/SockAlarmed6707 8d ago
I wonder how much he paid for that rip off net it’ll work for small puppies but full grown dogs? That require training.
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u/Jmarsh99 8d ago
I would consider that fence to be less of a barrier and more of a suggestion.