Dog Containment Fence

[TerryinMD]

Mosey,

When you install the fence you mark the boundary with a bunch of those littlle plastic flags. You have probably seen them ringing peoples properties. The purpose is to define the a visual border when introducing the dog to the fence. After everything is installed and running, you need to work with the dog for awhile to have it learn the boundaries and what happens if they try to cross over the fence. Each dog is different in its level of pain (stupidity??) and how fast it learns. Our Border Collie picked it up in less than two weeks. We left the flags up for a couple of months reducing the amount weekly until they were all gone.

The fence has been in the ground about a year now. He has gotten out three times. Two of the time was due to the receiver on the collar being broken and the last time was due to a break in the underground fence.

Terry

 

[RMEADOWS]

I love ours. I have four dogs that live in andprotect my barn behind my house. I have about 500'-600' of wire burried an inch to two around the barn and the "charger" in the barn.

I only had to use the flags a week as they got smart real quick. I varry the size of the containment area on occasion so they keep listening for the beep and not "test" the line.

I did have one of my dogs learn that they only got shocked for a second. That's when I bought the stubborn dog collar. Takesa 9v vs 3 v and it packs a puch. I got hit buy it and I was scared to cross the fence line.

It also deters people from my house. They see the dogs and no fence, tends to keep the sales people and others off my property.

The nice part about it is that they really can break through if they want. I had a A/C guy over and my daughter came out. One of the dogs broke through and got between her and the A/C guy.

Hope it works for you!

 

[Charlie_Iliff]

My fence came with instructions to flag the lines and lead the dog around to make sure he knows where they are. After a short time, we removed the flags, but he definitely knows where the lines are and stays away from them unless the collar battery is dead.

 

[Wal]

<font color=red>If one of the boundaries is out in the middle of the yard, how does the dog know where the boundary is? Do you have to mark it with flags or something?</font color=red>

Danny,

One stretch of our buried wire runs across about 100ft. of nothingness, just wide open grass. I don't know if it was really neccesary, but I planted a small crabapple tree right in the middle of that run, just a few feet outside the wire boundry. I did it just so our dog would have some point of reference as to "where" the boundry was on a permanent basis.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Wall, I agree with Jim's "robust creature" comment. We have 4 English Mastiffs, the largest being 190 lbs. These dogs have a high threshhold for pain. If you accidently step on their foot or tail they hardly even notice. Things that would make me me scream in pain won't bother them one bit.

We installed a radio fence when we only had two dogs. We followed the training and they learned the boundarys from the marker flags, but the electric shock had little to no effect. They would avoid going near the flags because of their training, but would just stroll across the boundary in between flags paying no mind to the electric shock. If we had purchaced the beeping collars the beeping might have had some effect. On several occasions I saw one of the dogs just sitting within the activation range wagging her tail and looking around calmly. I know the system was working because you could see the muscles twitching and contracting in her neck. The system does not work on dogs like this because there is no incentive to stay away from the border. The dogs are not stupid, they just have a high pain tolerance.

Before I tried the collar on the dogs, I tested it myself and the shock is plenty unpleasent. I would hope that anybody thinking of using one on their dog, try it on themselves first (use your fingers). They do make special extra strength collars, but I did not like the idea of upping the power so much, I really don't like the idea of zapping the dogs much at all, even at the lower power.

We installed wire field fence around a couple of acres and that works great. No collars to buy, no expensive batteries to replace, no worries about lightening, or power failures. The fence is connected to the house (wooden fence near the house) so we can just let them in and out the back door any time they want. The "real" fence keeps other dogs, people and animals away from our dogs domain. We have never had any of the dogs run off in the 5 years we have had the "real" fence.

Andy

 

[MReeter]

Andy,how much is your feed bill a month?Feeding FOUR Mastiffs....Wow!!!!

 

[spencer200]

I got 3 dalmatians, they chow thru 35 pounds of found a week!

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Mike, It is not as expensive to feed them as you might think. I think it costs about $1.25 a day. Thats not too bad considering we are feeding more than 640 lbs of dogs. We get the food in 55 lb bags.

When we just had one mastiff, a guy at work with a cocker spaniel kept saying how expensive it must be for me to feed him. We compared our food cost. He bought expensive food in a 5 lb bag. If I remember correctly it was about the same cost to feed our dogs, maybe the mastiff was a little cheaper. Mastiffs are not as active as some other breeds, so they do not need as much food per pound of body weight and buying food in bulk is much cheaper.

Andy

 

[Journeys_End]

<font color=red>I got 3 dalmatians, they chow thru 35 pounds of found a week!

<font color=black>Our Dalmation used to test the fence every day. She would approach the boundary, and if the collar beeped, she would back away. After a couple of days of doing this 10-15 times a day, the battery in the collar would die. Next time, no beep, dog would go wandering...too smart for her own good.

 

[hoghead]

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