One determined dog...

So I bought a crate for Eddie...he's had 2 more escape attempts and I'm scared he'll kill himself trying...

Today was a family birthday celebration at my parents' place in Stratford. My two oldest brothers, a sister-in-law, a niece and my mini-me all have birthdays within a few days of one another so we tend to do one large get together for all of 'em.

While we were in Stratford, a friend/contractor called me on my cell and said that the alarm company called him when they weren't able to get me at home; one of the glass-break alarms had been triggered at the house. I called the alarm monitoring station and told them that Ruben, my second-to-call person for monitoring, would check the house as he has access, and get back to me. They also informed me that they'd called the police to check things out and if there had been anything amiss...the police would have called them back. Given that I'd was only learning of the event 2 hours afterwards, I assumed everything was ok.

However, when we arrived home from the birthday party at around 9pm, Houndini had once more managed to escape again. FROM THE CRATE NO LESS!!!!!! He had obviously had run of the house since the alarm was originally triggered at 1:43pm...or there abouts...although he didn't do too much damage. Except for one of my mini-me's toys, a basket from the dining room table and the poop bag dispenser...it could have been MUCH worse!!!

I'm running out of ideas on how to contain him...help!!!!!!!