invisible fencing?

Jweezy

Jweezy

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Kannapolis NC
anyone have it? any thoughts?
i have a 70lb boxer whos scared of his own shadow but im afraid hes too "pita" to know whats goin on with it when it shocks him....

just curious of yalls opinions if you have it.
 
like anything with a dog, yor results will depend on how much time you spnd with him training him.

If you are thinking it is a buy it and forget it solution its not.
 
yeah i work with him alot. anyone thats ever been around him can vouch for that. just cant afford the fenced in thing yet so this would be my next option.
 
If you work with the dog they work great. 1st hand experience.
 
I've had one now for four years, best thing for the dog and us. Training is the key with the flags and you. We kept ours turned up to the max for a year. Now we let him out without the shock collar and still he doesn't go near it.
 
Neighbor has one and it works great, his dog knows the boundaries and it is never out of the yard. Just don’t do like he did….once. He went to get a collar repaired and placed it on his lap when approached the driveway. He didn't know it was on and he ended up with fried eggs. He’s had another kid since so I guess it was lesson learned.
 
IF your dog is allowed to play with other neighborhood dogs now, as in, other dogs can come onto your property and the dogs get along and play...installing the fence could cause your dog to become very terratorial(sp)to the point of doggy violence.

This happened between our neighbors dog and our dog...who were siblings. They used to roam and play in both of our yards all the time, then the neighbors put in a fence..all of a sudden their dog couldnt leave and when my dog went over there, their dog would become very very aggressive and defensive to the point that they ended up biting each others faces off. I dont blame them for installing a fence, but I do blame the fence for the sudden aggressivness.
 
GotWood said:
So you have a faceless dog? Pics please.
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Actually, we found her a new home through a board mamber here,after spending nearly 2 thousand dollars on vet bills from 2 seperate incedents that were bad enough for a vet. There were about 5 fights total.

I havent saw her since the new owners picked her up. She was a sweet dog.
 
I think the training is key. Our invisible fence (purchased from Home Depot) worked great for years.

At the moment there's a break somewhere so the dog has been fenceless about a year.

I'm not sure if this makes our dog stupid or smart but she's finally figured out that the fence is inop and will wander off occasionally, so we're back to using the leash to walk her until I find the break.

Your Hot Dog Guy! said:
I've had one now for four years, best thing for the dog and us. Training is the key with the flags and you. We kept ours turned up to the max for a year. Now we let him out without the shock collar and still he doesn't go near it.
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We used one for Semi, she would walk through it. Then we went to the "stubborn dog collar" Was better, but would still go through the shock(while shaking from the zap) to get to Leslie, so, she then wore 2 stubborn dog collars. She then learned to sit just inside the parameter with the audible only going on, till she wore the batteries down.
 
We installed one at my house when my wife moved in with her dog. It almost worked too good. He was so scared of it, he would hardly walk 20 ft from the wall of the house for the first few months on any given side even though the line was a long ass way away in all directions. We trained him with the flags too. I think he is just a wuss. I cut the line aerating my lawn about 1.5 yrs ago, and didn't bother getting it fixed. It took him over a year to expand his territory beyond the dead line.
 
I got lucky, I put the collar on my dog, walked him to the line let him hear the beep a few times then let him get shocked and damn of he didn't just understand the first time. His collar broke one week, and well they are $50 to replace, and he still wouldn't go near the line. But he's just a smart dog.


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I had 2 boxers that lived inside one. Once in a while they would get a running start and run through it. Still don't know if it was on purpose or just happened while playing in the yard.

After the training I could take a flag and stick it in the middle of a hole they were digging and they learned to stop digging holes without even being shocked.

they are good for keeping your dog in the yard. but not good at keeping other animals out of your yard.
 
I only know about the wireless ones. Ive got a friend with 2 dogs, a St. Bernard and some Rottweiler mix thing and they do pretty well on it. I think he said it was less than a week to teach them, and the St. Bernard is the most stubborn dog on the planet. I think they've left the fence once or twice but have never gone very far.

Ive heard of problems with them though, most notably that they can have blind spots if your yard is hilly. Apparently the signal moves in a flat plane, so if your yard dips down considerably the signal disappears...
 
Had a neighbor once, he put in one. The dog ran thru it like nothing hit him. But wouldn't come back in the yard cause it was shocking him.
 
My parents still have one. Back 10+ years ago when we installed it, we had an old lab that wouldnt get close to the line. We also had a beagle that figured out that if he took off running toward the line, he would only get shocked for a couple seconds and be free after that. We also had a lab that would lay down close enough to the line for the collar to start chirping until the battery died (the collar would stop chirping). Then she would get up and walk across the line and be free. My parents now have a lab and a beagle that stay inside the boundary.
 
The wireless ones use the signal to keep the collar from shocking. If thedog gets out of range it gets shocked. if the box gts unplugged...it gets shocked.
 
We had a shock collar for a Jack Russel/Italian Greyhound mix we had. Not invisible fence just a training collar. He was getting near the edge of the property and I called him and he didn't come back so I shocked him. HE took off like he was fired out of a cannon and didn't come back for 10 hours. He never left the yard again.
 
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