Electronic Fence

[SharonaZamboni]

I am considering an electronic fence. I would need the type without buried lines. Does anyone have recommendations? Bean does very well staying in the yard, but I'd feel much better if he were trained with this as a backup.

[Don Kondra]

I absolutely Love mine.

Ruby is six months old and after two corrections will not approach the edge of the containment area.

My previous dog Max was a 125# GS, he would race after deer/rabbits/etc. and come to a four wheel skid at the boundary

FYI, my house is in a natural clearing on ten acres of poplar/willow bush. I have one transmitter at one end of the house and another at the opposite end of my attached shop, this gives Ruby an area of 180' x 240' to play in.

Cheers, Don

[SharonaZamboni]

Thanks, Don. What brand do you have?

[Spike's Mom]

We had the buried kind for the pug. We decided not to do it for Spike because the pug was afraid to move in the yard. He got the "beep beep beep" meant he was getting closer but there was only a little patch by the house that he played in. We didn't want to take the chance with Spike that he would be afraid to move so we have a low fence in parts - 6 feet in other - hopefully going to replace the low fence with something prettier and higher in the spring

[BigBrownDog]

I am not a fan for 2 reasons - if you have a dog with a high prey drive it will blow through the electronic fence despite the collar correction in pursuit of a squirrel/cat/whatever and then will not come back to your yard. And - other animals can come into you yard - there is nothing preventing another dog/coyote/whatever from coming in and making a problem for your dog. So - it really depends on your dog's passion for the chase and your ability to assume the risk that you'll have an invader.

[BauersMom]

I love ours. We have a buried wire that goes all the way around the 3 acres that is cleared. He can go in the front yard, back yard, side yards, driveway . . . anywhere except the pond. The reason we chose the invisible fence is that there is a huge 7 acre pond that runs along the back of our property, and we have pet ducks that go in the pond. The fence keeps Bauer out of the pond (unless we take him down there to swim), but allows the ducks to go back and forth between the pond and the yard. He respects the boundary, and isn't afraid to be in the yard. He knows exactly how far he can go. Almost 3 full sides of our yard are bordered by woods, so it was easy to teach him where the boundary was: lawn = good, tall grass/trees = bad (we used the flags initially but the tall grass gives him a visual now). He knows the difference between collars, and if I take his IF collar off and put his regular collar on, he will walk right through the boundary with me. IF collar on, he stays about 5 feet from the edge. We had our installed by the Invisible Fence company. A friend of mine has the wireless fence, and that works just fine for them. They flagged the boundary initially, and their Golden Retriever learned where it was. I think they have the PetSafe brand.

It does depend on the dog, and I can see a dog with a high prey drive running right through. Bauer will chase animals full tilt through the yard, but puts the brakes on before he gets to the fence. We had the fence installed about 3 years ago, and he has never gone through it.

[Don Kondra]

Thanks, Don. What brand do you have?

I have the Pet Safe brand, I also had their in ground wire unit for a half dozen years. I laid over 1000' of wire right on the ground.

Worked just as well as the wireless until mice or deer chewed through the wire. That's 1000' through bush and I just couldn't see myself burying it in those conditions.

Eventually I got tired of tracing the breaks in the wire and purchased the wireless.

BTW, it took Max the GS about a month to figure out when the unit was not working. A couple of inches a day and he'd be back at the end of the driveway

Cheers, Don