--- title: Chicago Woman Fence-Proofs Her Dog to Keep It From Escaping description: When a Chicago woman couldn't find a way to dog-proof her fence, she decided to take a different approach. canonical: https://time.com/4206150/chicago-woman-fence-proofed-dog/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-03T17:32:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:39.226Z og:title: See How a Chicago Woman Fence-Proofed Her Dog to Keep It From Escaping og:description: But that doesn't keep him from trying og:url: https://time.com/4206150/chicago-woman-fence-proofed-dog/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See How a Chicago Woman Fence-Proofed Her Dog to Keep It From Escaping twitter:description: But that doesn't keep him from trying twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # A Chicago Woman Fence-Proofed Her Dog to Keep It From Escaping > Sponsored content. 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YouTube user [Vanessa Buccella](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz4T9rgJVdX1quBvYsXos9w) said her [dog](http://time.com/4202440/weiner-dogs-stampede-heinz-super-bowl-50-commercial/) was always trying to [escape the yard](http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1921614,00.html) through any gap in the fence he could find. Since there was no way for her to fix the holes and it was too expensive to replace the fence entirely, she needed to find an alternate solution. That’s when she came up with the idea of fence-proofing her adventurous [pet](http://time.com/4204621/quasimodo-dog-short-spine-syndrome/). By strapping a device called “the nimrod” onto the dog’s back, Buccella was able to make him too big to wriggle under the wooden panels. **Read More:** [Naughty Dog Caught on Film Destroying Home While Owner’s Gone](http://time.com/4204676/golden-retriever-destroy-apartment/) “This gives him freedom to run through the yard, but he’s confounded when his normal escape routes won’t work anymore,” she wrote. 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