Drabble by Kevin Fagan for June 10, 2012

It’s not even in the doorway properly. It’s just leaning on the door jamb/frame.

Be glad he’s a Weiner Dog with short legs Ralph, you wouldn’t WANT to see the kind of arrangements needed for St. Bernard pups!

Most people I know let their dog(s) have the run of the house. My daughter and her husband let their Shetland sheepdog roam all over their house and outside in their fenced yard.

My guys (dachshunds) stay in the kitchen when I am gone. I have a gate like this. Unbelievable it is only about 2 feet high and they have never figured out how to climb/jump it! One of my kids is large enough that she could jump it if she figured it out. I am sure they hate the thing…and I have tripped climbing over it often.

BTW, I LOVE the cartoons with Wally in them. Fagan must own a wiener dog as he has down their personality perfectly.

My dog figured out where and how to bump the gate and knock it out. To keep her in the kitchen at night, I put a door screen sideways across the door.

That not a doggie gate it’s more a doggie fence. If he put a gate on it he could open/close it to get past.

> Unbelievable it is only about 2 feet high and > they have never figured out how to climb/jump it!

Yeah? Try that with a lab. Haha. You can put in a cast iron gate topped with spikes and barbed wire, secured to an all-steel door frame with a dozen quarter-inch bolts, and the dog will learn how to get past it on the first day. The first thing they’ll try is just jumping over it; a typical three-month-old lab can clear about four and a half feet, maybe five. If you build the “gate” (i.e., fortress) much taller than that, they’ll find another way past, even if it means ripping up a brick wall with their paws and teeth. As a general rule, anything that gets in between the dog and being in the same room with you is not long for this world.

We used to have one for our dackels. They chewed their way thtrough the mesh.

I love how no one mentioned that Ralph was reading Wally’s mind.