How do you install a fence?

Wood is a maintenance issue, but unless you buy higher quality vinyl, it chips, cracks, and lighter colors look disgusting when dirty or covered with algae. Whatever you install, it's unlikely it will contact the ground. If the dogs will dig, you'll need heavy wire mesh (both above and below ground level) of some nature to deter the behavior. Your fencing choice should be able to withstand impact of dogs jumping against it, or clawing at it, if these are problems for you.

Get ready for some work! Or hire out the fence post digging portion of the project. Check local code as to how deep your posts need to be sunk.

https://www.familyhandyman.com/garden-structures/fences/build-a-privacy-fence/view-all/

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a21189/how-to-build-a-fence/

https://m.wikihow.com/Build-a-Wood-Fence

My preference is for wood as the vinyl cracks and breaks over time. I live where it is really hot and the sun is brutal. Choice is yours!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIIuhlcqSE0

Vinyl or wood the decision is really up to you. Wood panels are generally cheaper but more maintenance is needed and it eventually deteriorates. Vinyl is more expensive but is almost maintenance free. Usually all that is required is a light pressure washing once or twice a year. So in the long run I would go with vinyl. And that is what we are going to do when we replace a wood fence panels.

you need to determine the lot lines....some times you can find the marker, some times not. have the city come and survey your lot, mark boundary & utilities. depending on location, it's a free service. then check codes. some areas say plant the fence on the lot line, some say x many inches in from the lot line. some will restrict you to a certain height.

next you need to make the holes for the fence posts. I rented an auger type machine that brought the dirt to the top. planted the post with concrete and continued around the property planting posts using what was advised as spacing for the fenceposts. when the concrete was cured, then I put up the fencing material on the posts. the concrete gets a bit heavy, pace yourself. it will set up fairly quickly. do smaller batches.

These small dogs don't pee? Wow.

Neither of Vinyl or wood are best. The best use Brick, Mortar, Concrete, and Post [or Pipe] to formate a Very Solid Base for a Risen Wire Fence that withstands Pressure wash off of any and all Urines. Those last a lifetime, and whenever they do rust [14 years or so] you just paint them with Rust-o-leum.

Yeah it costs $28 to $35 per Foot, on Estimate, but when talking a 20 foot length, you never need to replace for 50 years, even a $1300 pricetag is not bad.

It takes very little effort to place each layer as 6 bricks at the two ends in a rectangle or sexagon, just like a smokestack, fulled with concrete to firm your posts, and with the middles as 4 bricks in a square per each level. The height is entirely up to you, but I would recommend at least 7 layers, to constutute 42 bricks at the ends and for dominant posts, and 28 bricks in the middle.

Bricks per 10 feet are seldom greater than 300 except by miscalculating.

For example:

10/13 of a 13 foot: [(6×35) + (4×49)]

which in my professional opinion is too high even to contain marmaduke, [especially after you mount that 48" tall fence atop that 7 layer, 28" tall brick wall, and do that rather than on a 24" [recommended] or 20" or 16" or 12" wall]

You would be suprised how much extra work that extra 4 inches to get to 28" rather than 24" indeed creates even beyond the fact: it is harder to find 76" fence posts than it is to find 72" Fence posts.

Keep in mind,

A. You will need to oversize those fence posts to place those in the Concrete poured inside the Brick.

B. As far as Privacy fences goes, you can integrate a copper pipe pergola instead of a fence, and set those in the bricks too, to hang bamboo shades instead of placing a fence.

Also,

C. word to the wise, if you want your fence and the posts painted you do that before you set these in the construction, [to avoid overspray getting on the brick], otherwise you end up painting these by hand rather than:

I. Roller to touch up with Spray

II. Spray

III. Roller only to give it a 'distressed look'

Either way, these are not stolen, nor destroyed by any animal teeth or urine

Wow, after all that you still want small dogs?