Jeramie Posted September 30, 2010 Report Share Posted September 30, 2010 I have a farily large yard (150' x 150'). I have a chainlink fence I put up when we bought the place but my horses have ruined it. It now farily easy for dogs to dig out. We lost one of our 13-year old Schnauzers in July becuase of the fence. We have decided with the new Corgi and Golden we better install one of the wireless fences. Petsafe appears to be the most popular brands. Its carried at Lowes, Walmart, Tracor Supply, Home Depot, etc. They range in price from $150 - 280 for the burried fence. Anyone have in preference, advice, etc? Im buying the collars with the 9V battery so they wont be expensive or hard to change. Beyond that I could use some suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_lou Posted September 30, 2010 Report Share Posted September 30, 2010 It's all about the training. If you don't spend a good 3 weeks on the training, you might as well put that money right down the garbage disposal and turn it on. Some dogs, all it takes is one zap and they got it figured out. Some don't really care and will run through it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted September 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2010 I can see where that could be a problem. I am however leaving the existing fence there. It would be mainly to deture them from digging out. They wouldnt have the opertunity to run through it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike Posted September 30, 2010 Report Share Posted September 30, 2010 Hey Jeremie! I put up a petsafe fenceless yard a few weeks ago that i bought from Theisens and I would definately recommend it. Works like a charm with my 5 month old lab pup and it only took a a few times before he caught on. In less than a week he was staying outside all day when we are at work. I rented a trencher type machine at the local hardware store and wired up an acre and a half in a couple hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike Posted September 30, 2010 Report Share Posted September 30, 2010 Just an idea but have you thought about running a wire down low on the inside of your fence, like about 6 inches off the ground and just using an electric fencer? A couple nicks from that and they will stay clear of the fence I would think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stickslinger Posted October 3, 2010 Report Share Posted October 3, 2010 My wife and I purchased the wireless petsafe fence for our choc lab when she was almost a year old. The model we have included a base transmitter that you put in your house, a collar that your dog wears when outside and some flags to mark the boundary. With this system there are no wires to bury, the base transmitter sends out a signal to the collar and when the dog gets close to the boundary that you set it starts to beep, when the dog hits the boundary it sends out a shock to the collar on the dog, the collar has several levels of shock that you can set. My wife and I tried the collar on our wrists before we put it on the dog, we set it at level 3 and gave it a try. Gets your attention but not to bad, we then set the collar to beep only and marked the boundary with the flags. This system creates a circular boundary from the base transmitter, which can be set up to 90ft from the transmitter in every direction. Our lab has only hit the boundary once and received a shock, since then she doesn't get close to the boundary even when we don't put the collar on her. Not sure if will work with all dogs but it worked with ours! Rodney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted October 4, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2010 mike said: Just an idea but have you thought about running a wire down low on the inside of your fence, like about 6 inches off the ground and just using an electric fencer? A couple nicks from that and they will stay clear of the fence I would think. That was an idea. It would help keep the horses away from my fence too but I have two young girls. My cousin lost her daughter to a standard volt electric fence (stopped the baby's heart) so that nixes that idea even if it was a freak accident. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted October 4, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2010 Stickslinger said: My wife and I purchased the wireless petsafe fence for our choc lab when she was almost a year old. The model we have included a base transmitter that you put in your house, a collar that your dog wears when outside and some flags to mark the boundary. With this system there are no wires to bury, the base transmitter sends out a signal to the collar and when the dog gets close to the boundary that you set it starts to beep, when the dog hits the boundary it sends out a shock to the collar on the dog, the collar has several levels of shock that you can set. My wife and I tried the collar on our wrists before we put it on the dog, we set it at level 3 and gave it a try. Gets your attention but not to bad, we then set the collar to beep only and marked the boundary with the flags. This system creates a circular boundary from the base transmitter, which can be set up to 90ft from the transmitter in every direction. Our lab has only hit the boundary once and received a shock, since then she doesn't get close to the boundary even when we don't put the collar on her. Not sure if will work with all dogs but it worked with ours! Rodney We thought about buying that same one as we wouldnt have to worry about wires.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_lou Posted October 4, 2010 Report Share Posted October 4, 2010 My wife's cousin has that one for there dogs. It works like a charm on thier labs. They know exactly how far they can go. It's nice that you can move it around and take it with you if you go someplace. The downside is it has a limited range. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted October 4, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2010 c_lou said: My wife's cousin has that one for there dogs. It works like a charm on thier labs. They know exactly how far they can go. It's nice that you can move it around and take it with you if you go someplace. The downside is it has a limited range. That is true... However, our yard is a 150x150. The house is somewhat centered so we could turn almost extend it all the way. It has something like a 90' radius. That would extend past our fence. I just wasnt sure how reliable the wireless is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stickslinger Posted October 5, 2010 Report Share Posted October 5, 2010 The only thing you have to keep an eye on is the battery in the collar and it will start blinking when the battery gets low. We have our transmitter in a basement window and haven't found any dead spots anywhere in our yard(Front, Sides or Back) and we have it set on the 90ft setting. Our yard is pretty much flat, not sure how they work with yards that are sloping. Rodney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted October 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2010 We have bottom land so our yard is flat too. Sounds like that is the route to go. I may have to do some layout though to be sure they can still cover most of the yard because of he radius. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebohio Posted October 6, 2010 Report Share Posted October 6, 2010 we have an underground one it works great. i used an edger to bury the line. if you want to add more line you can use almost any wire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stickslinger Posted October 6, 2010 Report Share Posted October 6, 2010 One more thing that you might have to change with this system is the collar that comes with it, nothing wrong with the transmitter part just the collar itself. Its kind of cheap and I had to replace ours with a better collar, hardest part was finding a decent collar with not metal on it. Rodney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerLily Posted October 7, 2010 Report Share Posted October 7, 2010 Another good idea is to use a shock collar. It's a non-painful way to train your dog where they can and cannot go. My neighbors used it and it worked very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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