black and tan coonhound mixed with doberman

Question
i adopted a 8mo old coonhound mix in jan. i love cleatus so much! he's so lovable! my  7yr old lab mix ella and him are best friends. i have a doggy door and a fenced in back yard and i'm home a lot, so they have it pretty good.  the problem is that if claetus can escape he will, and he will not listen to me.....at all. he'll run up to strangers though. that's how i usually catch him. ella listens very well however. it wouldn't be so bad if he could find his way home but that doesn't seem to be the case with ole cleatus the fetus:) i want to be able to take both dogs to the park and be able to let them run without worrying. last time he was gone for two nights before i found him stuck in a field. i feel like he's being stifeled on the leash all the time. can you help me?

Answer
Bless your heart;
I know just how you feel. My husband used to have a male Irish Setter that was a fence jumper.
Well, he was Irish, and being 34ths Irish myself, i understand the hard head, but this dog had me going good. He would jump the fence and take off.
I would jump in my car, but he would be oput of site already. I would find him when he found a little kid, or a little pup. He would stop to play with them.
I told my husband he had to train Blarney to not jumo the fence,or get me something with four on the floor, so I could catch him.LOl
Now, I am the dog trainer, and i have trained hundreds of dogs, many that would attack their wners, and have never been bitten, and the only failures I ever had were my little Beagle, and Blarney.
One day Blarney gor out, took off, and I was fed up.
When I would catch up with him, He would not obey me and get in the car.
He would sit down, and i swear his butt was glued to the sidewalk, so I would pick him up and try to put him in the back seat. I would grab him around his stomach, and put huim toward the door. He would shove out all four of hid feet against the sides of the car.
It was funny for someone to watch, but I could have wrung his neck.
the day I got fed up, my son, whio was 8 then, tried to coax him in.
I said "No! he is going to mind me", and I bent down to his ear and spoke Irish to him. I told him what I was going to do to him if he didn't get in the car. One thing was to cram my fist down his throat, granb him by his (man parts) and turn him inside out. I said it really low, because I didn't want my son to hear his mother talk like that.
He jumped all the way across the seat and into my son's lap.
when we got home, I turned to him and said "Blarney, I am going to open the door, and you are going to get out and jump back in the fence like you did to get out, and NEVER get out again, or you know what I will do to you".
He got out of the car, over the fence and never jumped the fence again.LOl
Guess it takes an Irishman to talk to an Irishman.

\For fence jumopers, we got a hot wire st the feed store, and plugged it in. they only get bitten once by that, but if they see it unplugged, out they will go.
Have you taken him to obedience classes?
Check out the weekend classesd at Petsmart and Petco.
Best money you can spend.
I have 3 dogs, and I have been too feeble to give them proper obedience training, so no way would I let them out of the back yard off a leash.
Get things to throw for him to run after and bring back. You can do it without killing yourself, and he can get more exercise.
If you are able to run, put him on a leash and take him for a run. good for both of you if your are in good health.
I wouldn't take him anywhere and let him off leash until I was sure he was going to NOT run away.
Good luck.
Charlotte