Houdini Dog Strikes Again

I didn’t get a chance to write about this yesterday as I had the Friday 13 blog to work with and didn’t have the time to write a 2nd piece.

Most of you know about my dog Riley. He’s a german shepherd/lab mix that is pretty well mannered if not a bit jumpy, but very intelligent. There are days I think that he’s smarter than me!  I’ve told the story before of how he escaped from his smaller cage once and I thought it may have been a stroke of luck but wasn’t sure.  However yesterday I confirmed it…

I have a houdini dog.

I'm getting back to the house yesterday and as I pull up all the dogs are out running around and I see Riley running around the car so I’m confused as I put him in the cage myself.  I walk around to the garage and I find the front door folded down inside and about that time Riley comes back in and looks at me.

You may be thinking whats so impressive so I’ll explain. In order to get through this cage you had to release two snaps on the top of the door by pushing up on the top of the cage while pulling on the door.  To further complicate this the snaps were also on the side and you have to manipulate the cage around these hooks as well.  Once you get all of these off then its a fold down cage. So you have to pull the front door in and fold it down which leaves less than a foot inside.  So somehow Riley unlocked the top, unlocked the side, pull the door in, and get away while the door comes in and then get out.  I think I’m going to put a webcam on there and figure out how he’s getting out. To try to keep him inside though we used bailing wire to wrap around the snaps on the cage.

If he gets out again we’re going on the road with a straight jacket and a water tank.