Get a dog? :-)
I was pleasantly surprised that this old telco "shaggy-dog story" was available online:
Some of you have asked what happened with Buffy, the female cattle dog I had here. She learned how to jump over the fence :( and she ran off; has not been seen since. She is a *big* dog and could put her front paws on my four foot high wire fence around my yard. But she is also very muscular (like many big dogs) and learned to use her front legs to pull herself over the fence when she jumped in the air. I have sort of mixed emotions about it. I did miss her a little -- this is the dog which knocked me down on the sidewalk one day, skinning up my face and chipping my tooth and causing me to bleed -- but I know she did not mean it; now that she has been gone for more than a week I am almost certain the Independence Animal Shelter got her, and I am not going to take her back. She was just too much for me to try and deal with. PAT]