Escape Artist: Dog not the goats

[Greendecember]

Hello I'm new here and I looked around but did not see a topic like this.
When we bought our goats the first thing everyone says is they will get out of anything. Yes the first 3 days we had them they escaped a couple times. We have had them (5 does) about 3 months now and no more Houdini events from them.

Enter the now 10 month old LGD anatolin /pry cross and my 18 month old Doberman. Freckles, the LGD is a digger. The herd queen ( aptly named Queenie) tends to push her around so I took to letting her out days and putting her back in the goat pen at night. By morning she was often out and eggar to follow me around to do chores.

We have 5 acres and she usually at least stays on the property. Then I introduced her and Callisto, the Doberman. Callie usually fights with other female dogs but her and Freckles are best friends. Which would not bother me except Freckles keeps finding ways to take Callie to the goat area. Callie doesn't get in the goat pen and really wants to play with the goats but won't let her.
When the dogs leave the from yard, sanctioned play area, they are scolded. Callie is put in her kennel in the house and as of today Freckles is put bqck in the goat pen.

We are working on the fences.

My question is how do I balance good dog play time because Freckles isgood for Callie and not spoiling Freckles as a LGD but giving her play time too? I know she is still a puppy and needs to play and expend energy but her primary function is goat guarding. Also how to help with her digging which I think is a product of the Pyr desire to wonder and her being rammed by the Queen goat.

 

[Beekissed]

I have run extension cords to an area in my orchard so that my wireless fence transmitter can be plugged into a central location.

This allows me to place my dog's boundary where its needed most...right where the chickens and sheep are pastured. When he is working, he is wearing his receiver collar. When he is not working, the collar is removed and he is allowed to follow us here and there for choring or to come in the house for people time.

My dogs are not true LGD breeds, so though they will guard this yard and territory, they do not truly guard the animals themselves. They do alert me when something is amiss with the sheep, like an impending birth, and would fight anything that dared the fenceline....but their's is more a guarding of this land than the animals.

Knowing this, I use the wireless fencing to keep them where they can do the most good for me and the livestock.

 

[Greendecember]

Thanks I thought about an electric fence but my concern was something getting in and if retreat needed the dog would be hobbled. It is really appearing to be more of an issue of having the LGD bond more with the goats than the Doberman.