I agree, we're considering getting rid of our beagle (even though he's a purebred!) Because we made this shaded area jutting out from the side of our shed/building and he's found a way to push the dog houses up out of the hole and pallets to make a little makeshift stairway and jump on top of that, from there to the shade thing, and vault over the fence (which is pretty high and you'd think it would hurt his lil legs) to freedom. But he would always go around our neighborhood peeing on EVERY MAILBOX in turn. And If that wasn't enough he liked the neighbors dogs only for them to apparently not like him, which was sorta funny because about everyone in our neighborhood owns a boxer so he wouldn't stand a chance since they were all at least a foot taller than him! But this month is when we really started considering getting rid of him because he got out this time to realize, OOH LIVE CHICKEN! And massacre all of our chickens which he was carrying one IN HIS MOUTH which had its neck all mangled and bones sticking out, but the saddest part was that it was still alive so we put it out of its misery and then beat the living you know what outta the dog, don't worry we weren't to rough with him because the next day he was just as stubborn as ever. Sparky (the dog) is also very aggravating to my dog as well, (shadow, 6 yrs old, lab/border collie mix) anyway she usually bites him about once a day because hes always rooting around up in her ears which have chronic hear infections that we've pretty much given up trying to get rid of, and are very sore as well, the poor dog, but he also is constantly going up under her and sniffing her in her area. Sorry for such a long post, I do that alot.