Front Porch Challenge – Need Some Help!

Louis and I undoubtedly have THE. BEST. wrap-around front porch ever.  Best view of the best neighborhood.  EVER.  Now that the weather has warmed up, we will find ourselves out there every chance we can get. We refer to it as our front porch ministry.  Since we live at an intersection with quite a bit of foot traffic, we get to meet a ton of our neighbors just by sitting outside chillin’ with a drink in hand greeting our friends and neighbors.  Sometimes we have music…and Louis and I have been known to dance as well.  🙂  We have created a ton of a unforgettable memories of on that porch as well.

We also have the happiest, best dogs ever.  Bella and Wesley love the porch just as much as we do, and we LOVE to have them with us.  Wesley, the nearly 15 year old black lab, is not our worry.  Bella, the 8-9 year old almost chocolate lab, might as well be 2. With all the feral cats around, she will bound off the porch before you know it, which doesn’t make for a very peaceful night when we are constantly saying…No, Bella.  And we find ourselves a bit more stressed than we need to be.

So, here’s the challenge.  Note in the pictures below the set up of our porch.  We need a creative, tasteful, inexpensive, simple, portable, easy-to-store, way to contain the dogs on the porch while we are out there. You might say…simple!  Get a leash.  Well…not so simple.  Bella will chew through it in about 10 seconds flat – which won’t end up being very inexpensive after we replace it over and over again.

So, any ideas???

happiest best dogs ever

the entrance – steps

across the street

from the front to the left

from the front to the right

from the side