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We recently put up an expensive fence to keep the neighbor's big bozo dogs from bounding into our yard and terrorizing our softy dog (she likes other dogs, but dogs with manners - a heritage from her show career) and so she and our new dog could play outdoors. We did not fence the lake side of the yard, thinking that a 50" high fence around 3 sides would cause them to roam elsewhere. There were just in my yard, minutes after the pups and I came in. Grrrr! The dogs are just big, clumsy, energetic oafs who like to splash in the lake (one is a lab) but hey! The potential death/injury to my own dogs in their own fenced yard is real. Maybe I'll ask Santa Claus for a pet lion. Or shark. Yeah, that's the ticket.