Cute Puppies!

One of our livestock guarding dogs, Penda gave birth to 9 unbelievably cute puppies a couple of weeks ago and all 9 are growing up fast. So when the pups started to crawl one of my jobs was to build a puppy barrier that would enable penda to have access in and out of her hut but at the same time keep puppys in.

So I built what i thought was a perfect barrier constructed from wooden poles and string only to find the next day that somehow one of the puppies had escaped! So I added an extra pole, but again the next day 2 puppies had escaped!! Unbelivable!! So I further increased the height of the barrier only to have the lil buggers escape again. I could not understand how they were doing it, but the crafty pups had two tricks up their sleeves, one was to suck on Penda's teets so hard that when she jumped over the barrier they went with her and the other was to use the poles I constucted the barrier with like a ladder!

So i then added some flat cardboard to the barrier creating a flat surface, aha!!! That will stop them. However, within 30 minutes 4 had hurled themselves over so i gave up! The lil puppy genius' now have full access to their pen. Still its hard to be mad at something so damn cute!!!