Puppy Picket Fence

It depends on your dog's size. Standard ornamental steel picket spacing is 3.5–4 inches — wide enough for many small dogs and puppies to push through. If you have a small dog, ask Thrive about the puppy picket configuration, which adds a second row of pickets in the lower portion of each panel to halve the effective gap width.

Standard ornamental steel picket spacing is typically 3.5 to 4 inches between pickets, depending on the manufacturer and panel style. This is designed for aesthetics but may be too wide for small dogs and puppies. The puppy picket configuration reduces effective lower-panel spacing to approximately 1.75–2 inches.

No — puppy picket panels are a factory configuration, not a field modification. They must be specified before panels are ordered. If standard panels are already installed and containment is an issue, the affected panels would need to be replaced with puppy picket panels. Thrive advises on this during initial consultation to avoid future replacement costs.