After 4 years, Brude has just discovered why beagles have disproportionately large paws :suspect:

There's a beagle sized hole under the fence to next door :mad:

I caught him with his shoulders wedged under the fence with his bum/tail stuck in the air :P

(temporary railway sleeper now installed :D )


Just whilst I'm trying to see the funny side of this (and forget about the nearby main road), does anybody have any pet escape stories to tell?

We have a family legend about a hamster and a chimney. Said hamster went up white, came down black and doing cute hamster sneezes. :D

I'm starting to feel better already!

That made me smile ;)

Hi Strix

My horse is a nightmare for escaping. Her nickname on the yard is even Houdeni!
The stables she is at in Crosspool has about 8 fields, there is only one she can go in because she just gets out of the rest, admitedly the fencing isn't great but the other horses seem to manage.

Iv'e watched her bend down on her knees and crawl under a fence, walk to one end of the field and go full pelt to the other end so she can jump a wall, take fencing down by knocking it with her head, lean so hard the fence collapses etc etc

I don't know why she does it because she never goes very far, it's just like shes showing off "Look what I just did" So for now, she has to stay in one field! Which for some reason, she stays in.

Always worrys me a bit as she is next to a road and don't know what I'd do if anything happened to her. :|

Oh no :shocked:
You don't think he was trying to escape the memory of being menaced in his own garden, do you?

Perhaps he's searching for the lost sqeaker from his little ball!

Have told Bess, she's got head hung in shame!

Perhaps he's trying to follow her home Scoop ;)

He came in with muddy paws last night, but I thought he'd been frog hunting.

There was too much noise going on, and it's too early for frogs now, so I went to investigate - and found a muddy-pawed, muddy-whiskered, slightly grubby, rather abashed little soul :suspect:

He's wondering why he's not allowed in now :(

Wait until he finds out he's getting bathed :heyhey:

Jess - I always thought horses only jumped when ridden.

Your's sounds like a right character :shocked: :hihi:

Strix- She is definetly that!

She doesn't like jumping when being ridden, gets all scared and prefers to follow me over jump instead. :suspect: Sure shes an imposter horse and really a human!

Just remembered as well, we used to have a dog when I was younger that always dug out of the garden, our neighbours were always complaining so my dad put mesh wire a couple of foot down upder the fence to stop her getting out, thinking about it, sounds like a major job! :loopy: worked though, she no longer escaped!:thumbsup:

see this thread....

This one here (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=52826&highlight=riddle+me+this)

Every time wetry to dig in this garden we find bricks :suspect:

Why was he able to get to far so fast? :confused:

I might bed the sleeper in properly though ;) and it'll keep the weeds down :D


We had a jack russell who used to slide out between the bars of the gate - until he got too big. We found him working his way along testing each and every gap :suspect:

He obviously found one, coz he started disappearing again.

One night he stole a whole chicken from a shopping bag :mad: (in the seventies - we were skint). Next day we realised he hadn't come back in the house, and had been 'missing' for about an hour.

We found him firmly wedged half in and half out of the gate :hihi: not daring to bark in case we found him and told him off :hihi:

LOL Strix

They are funny animals the way they scamper when they have done something wrong. Hours of amusement.

A funny story involving my dog (as featured in the avatar). Once my sister had to take him into school as part of a looking after pets thing in English. She took his food in, with his treats, bowl, bed, brush, etc. After that my mum was taking him a walk and he ran away. She gave up hope of finding him after looking for about an hour, and hoped that he had found his way home. When she got home, he was not there, but there was a message on our answerphone from the school. They said our dog had been running amock in the playground! We assume he probably went looking for his food.

I've owned a few escapologists over the years, my hamster Marmaduke would get out of his cage and then some how avoid the two dogs and merrily chew through cables all without injury. I say two dogs but my big black german shepherd was terrified of him and would hide in the corner if Marmaduke was running around in his plastic ball.
The white akita soon had the honorary name 'Houdini' as he was a total horror. He yanked a metal bar out of a child gate to get through it and when I attempted to straighten the pole it was very difficult, he was incredibly strong. I also built a new 'secure' garden fence for him and he'd sit tied to the washing line post watching me. When I'd finished he worked his wauy along the fence tipping his head sideways, grabbing hold of the uprights and pulling on them. I'd faastened it all together with four inch screws so sat sniggering. I wasn't sniggering when I looked out a minute later and he'd vanished, I couldn't understand it and even thought he'd sneaked into the house but no such luch. Found in one corner of the garden some rusty wire mesh and he'd literally forced his way through a hole that at the time looked as though a rabbit would of struggled. It took me half an hour to corner him in some-ones immaculate garden and never dared go round and apoligise for the scuff marks in their grass or the overturned flower tub. Horrible animal!!!

I once had a pet rat called Madam, who was a very enthusiastic escape artist.... one night she escaped from her cage in the front room, squeezedthrough a hole in the chimney and got into a cupbaord where she trashed all the household financial papers, then she made her way to the kitchen, where she sampled every vegetable in the vegetable rack, and 6 cartons of orange juice. She then made her way upstairs, where she knocked everything off the shelves and windowsill in the bathroom.

Woken by the noise, and thinking we had burglars we crept towards the bathroom, slammed open the door, turned on the light and found her at 3am swinging back and forwards on the shower curtain. We had 6 rats at the time and none of the other 5 escaped ever.

Currently I have a cat called Podge with a very strong head, if we lock the cat door to keep him in he just headbutts his way through it.

Strix, you should start a 'Brude's Blog' so we can all keep up with his shenanigans, he's hilarious!

well my jack (or max as kristian calls him!!!) always escapes somehow..

many a day has been spent walking round looking for him..

the last time he squeezed down the side of the fence and i was driving around for hours ,,
got back to the housewith no luck and the other dog was crying at one of the fence panels...it was total opposite side of where went through fence.

so i get the ladders and looks over the fence and here is poor jack caught on a branch.. i had to lean over the fence (which is 6 foot high!!!) and grab him by collar and haul him up and throw him over!!!
he is lucky he did not break anything...

What sort of animal is Jack, Sav?

Strix, I had a suicidal Goldfish called Felicity.

She used to make the great leap from her (perfectly maintained and looked after) tank on a regular basis.

Once I came home to find her lying seemingly dead on the carpet. When I picked her up, a lot of the scales on one side pulled away from her as they were stuck to the carpet. She must have been lying there all day. Poor thing

I put her back in the tank and revived her. She lived on.

I had to get a lid.

I was left in charge of a fish tank whilst it's owner was honeymooning.

Darn thing leapt out and flipped about until it was lodged deeply under the bookcase. Then it flipped some more and I made several futile attempts to catch it as it landed. I gave up and watched it wea itself out so I could just pick it up :D

And it did it twice :suspect:

Thanks to my brother for this on messenger:
how does a dog whose back legs won't get him over an 8 inch step manage to get all the way to... actually, I can't remember the name of the place. it was where we used to kennel them in donny

he only got out cos the gas man left the gate to the dog run ajar

Strix says:
how far???

Bruvv says:
lynda thinks he may have caught a bus

(the same dog as the chicken and gate story :roll: )

Originally posted by Strix
What sort of animal is Jack, Sav?

he is a doggy :D cross staffi/sharpei!

Need to see pics Sav :)