We have a small problem where Lucy will sometimes chew a hole through a section of chicken fence so she doesn't have to walk around the long way.

I tried fixing this back in March with a door made from a piece of scrap carpet. Lucy used it a few times but soon forgot it was there and went back to her old ways.

The failure here is directly connected to the design. It's plenty big enough, but not being able to see through to the other side is too much to ask of at least our dog. The next version will use a piece of Plexiglass or maybe we'll break down and buy a commercial dog door.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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