The great escape

It can start off with the dogs in the back yard and Tucker chilling out on the deck. Then I turn around and realize Tucker's disappeared. Typically I'll go over and find him in the side yard, sometimes just relaxing, sometimes wandering off to the front yard or even the neighbor's yard.  I go to lecture Tucker, point him back in the right direction, and/or throw him up on the deck.  That of course gets the attention of Doogie, who comes to see what's going on...

...which, in turn, gets Daisy's attention because the rest of us are missing, and she comes over from whatever she's investigating in the back yard.

Then something gets someone's attention, or they just realize they haven't seen the front yard in the last fifteen minutes, and before you know it they're all making a run for it into unsupervised territory, where a neighbor could be walking a dog by, or cars could be flying past.

This is usually when the back yard fun starts to wrap up. I yell at the dogs to get them to turn around into the back yard, Tucker's literally cat-yelling at me because I'm trying to pick him up (you know how kids can turn to jelly when they don't want to be picked up? They have less bones-to-soft-parts ratio than this cat has!), and one or all of them start getting thrown into the house so I can just get work done in the back yard without all the distractions. They had their fun....then they had to go and ruin it. Don't blame me.