<p>glad your dog is safe and warm!!!</p>
<p>Glad the little guy is safe. In the daylight, take a walk around the porch and look and see where the dog is getting in. You don’t want this happening again. Try to block off or repair the spot, even tempoarily until you can have it fixed/filled in permanently. </p>
<p>Broken, missing parts of the lattice, skirting boards, etc. can be skinned over most effectively by tacking 1/4x1/4 or 1/2x1/2 hardware cloth (a wire mesh), or even chicken wire. Don’t use aluminum or fiberglass screening, as it is far too easy to poke through.</p>
<p>We actually “lost” our Newf puppy in the snow one year. The drifts were so high, he just walked off the back porch and sank into a drift. We couldn’t see him, but a minute or two later his head popped up in the middle of the yard. He was happy as a clam tunneling through the snow.</p>
<p>I’m glad to hear your pug is okay, and you have my sympathies. My standard poodle managed to get herself stuck between the wall of the house and the down ramp of the deck, a space of about three inches. She was chasing a rabbit out the yard–the rabbit made it out of the gap, the dog didn’t. She wedged herself in there pretty thoroughly, right at the neck. (Anyone who tells you poodles are smart hasn’t seen mine; she totally loses her brain at the sight of squirrels or rabbits.)</p>
<p>It took an hour to free her, and like you we faced the choice between cutting the deck and leaving the dog… although there was no chance she’d free herself. We eventually pried a rock loose from the facade of the house. Poor dog had a sore neck for days.</p>
<p>Just had to click on this because of the thread title! Glad all is well.</p>
<p>pugmadkate, So glad your pug is safe!</p>
<p>Oh, kate, I’m so glad it worked out! The worries I have had over my two dumb beasts . . . we do love them, don’t we?
And your title! I honestly thought it was some old expression I had never heard before, kind of like “seeing a man about a horse.”</p>
<p>For a while there you were probably a Kate mad ‘at’ your pug but I know you’re really a Kate mad ‘about’ your pug!</p>
<p>As violadad stated, fill in the hole your S dug trying to rescue him, find any potential opening and either close it off so the dog can’t get in or open it up so it’ll be easy to get out - whatever seems most appropriate with the design.</p>
<p>I’m glad the pug’s free and safe.</p>
<p>Oh so glad!</p>
<p>Really glad to hear your doggie is fine. </p>
<p>I thought “pugmad” was an expression I hadn’t before heard, along the lines of, “I am so doggone mad.” I’m glad to see it is actually a loving screen name. Poooor you and your son and little puggie. Such a stressful night for all.</p>
<p>Hope you and your adorable pug sleep well tonight!</p>
<p>This was like when Baby Jessica got stuck in the well!</p>
<p>Glad she’s back home, safe and sound.</p>
<p>Mazel tov! Now you don’t have to change your username.</p>
<p>The title of the thread made me think that you were considering sawing the dog in half. Glad it didn’t come to that!</p>
<p>Last week one of my chickens managed to jam herself under the edge of the garage/barn after being attacked by a hawk. (H, hearing a mighty squawking from the flock, actually found the hawk ON her body, but it flew away when he appeared.) I contemplated trying to pull her out, but was afraid that I would only succeed in damaging one of her wings due to the way she was jammed in there. After a while she stopped shrieking, chicken-style, but every time I touched her, she pushed herself farther under the building.</p>
<p>After an hour or so, she emerged on her own and joined the rest of the flock. I had thought she was probably a goner.</p>
<p>Yay, the doggie is OK! Kate, you are a great pug mom :)!</p>
<p>H is putting finishing touches on our deck, and I told him that he had to make sure that a German shepherd-sized dog could not get stuck in the deck crevasses.</p>
<p>I thought the same thing as VeryHappy. I was imagining some kind of King Solomon scenario. Glad the put is safe and in one piece!</p>
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<p>What is it about dogs and the month of December?</p>
<p>Thank you all so much! </p>
<p>My pug’s punishment once she was freed was to be carted off to bed by my son who wrapped her up in one of his quilts and tucked her in right next to him (usually she sleeps at the foot of the bed, I know, it’s a tough life.) My husband followed this up the next day by picking her up the moment he returned home and comforting her on her “rough weekend” via lots of scratching and treats. </p>
<p>Dog love really is irrational but they sure do make life sweet.</p>
<p>Exactly the type of “punishment” she deserved :)</p>
<p>Glad all is well</p>
<p>That is how I punish my dog too. On a recent trip to see a production at my D’s college, my dog jumped out of my car at a gas station when I opened the door. He ran down Rt 17 in Virginia - if any of you are familiar with Rt 17 at lunch time, it is a miracle he wasn’t hit. I abandoned the car, my purse, my laptop - everything and ran after him, screaming. 20 minutes later, he was at another gas station and a very nice man reached down and grabbed him. I was a basket case by then so all I could do was “punish” him accordingly by hugging and kissing him and vowing to never let him out of his crate again when in the car.</p>