33+ Amateur Engineers Who Totally Fixed Things

There’s no way that pet owners can keep an eye on their adorable pooches or felines 24/7. After being cooped up at home all day, they need a bit of fresh air, and what better way than to let them out onto your front or back yard to stretch their legs? That is, unless their bodies can slide through your property’s gate, then you’ve got a pretty big problem on your hands.

But creativity knows no limit. What this family did was attach a wooden spoon onto a harness. The spoon would crash into the gate, preventing the pupper from breaking free. Now that’s engineering at its finest!