Electronic fencing?
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Anonymous
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Yay or nay? We are in the process of adopting two young dogs, and we would like them to run free in the yard around our home, and we are not interested in a "traditional" fence. We have plenty of backyard space, but do have neighbors to the left, right and rear of the home; Would welcome thoughts on effectiveness of e-fence, effects on other dogs (we have dogs in our neighborhoods, and people are frequently walking dogs around) and/or neighbors's pets, deer, and/or rodents.
Also, any ideas on costs? Thanks... |
Anonymous
| How big is your lot? My friend has about an acre, and it was about $1500. +/-. It seems well worth it. You can put the "front line" (in front of the house) however close (or not) to the street as you wish, I suppose depending if there are other dogs that pass by often. The collar setting (I was thinking about this for my dog, too) depends on the size of the dog, so it does not hurt the dog, only surprises them. |
Anonymous
| OP here. The lot is 1/4 acre. Our neighbor across the street has one for his two dogs, and it seems to work, but they are smaller dogs. The ones we are adopting are medium sized. |
Anonymous
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We have one for our corner lot and our golden doodle puppy. I hate it for a couple reasons, firstly when he has gone thru it I feel sick at the fact he is getting zapped and is afraid. Its on a puppy setting. God knows what the adult dog setting is like.
Secondly it keeps NOTHING out of your yard, so if Joe from the next street over with his nasty dog decides to come and "play" because you and your dog are outside, and he has no sense of this being a possible disaster, you have to ask him to keep off the yard. We got one about 4 months ago and the dog is free to run, but I have to be outside with him, just in case. It is a standard cost $1800 which includes installation and a collar, plus replacement batteries for the rest of the year (collar batteries). But as soon as I come into some money later this year, I'm spending $3000-5000 on a real, wooden fence. our neighbor has two tiny dogs who it works well for, and who have landscaping to create additional shrub boundaries, but they still have obnoxious walkers invading their yard to say "hello" |
Anonymous
| I've never seen them work. Our neighbors have one and their two dogs LOVE to play with my kids. The dogs generally stay behind but often break out to come over to play. Another neighbor tried it with her husky but he would break through whenever a squirrel ran past. My golden would definitely break through to greet the kids coming home from the bus stop. |
Anonymous
| Electronic fences only work if the dog was going to stay in the yard anyway. (I am assuming that you mean a radio fence, not a hot-wire, cattle or horse fence) They are good as reinforcement for a physical fence, though. Used on their own, impulsive dogs will run right through them, smart dogs will learn to run down the battery in the collar and the UPS guy will stop delivering to your house. |
Anonymous
what on earth are you talking about?  the batteries are not "run down" unless you are forever walking thru the boundary and setting them off. otherwise they last a standard amount of time 2-3 months
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Anonymous
| They don't work. We live on an acreage in Frederick County and are going to have to shoot our neighbor's f*cking pit bulls the next time they run through the "fencing" and chase our horses. We've told them twice now and apparently they aren't going to get it until their dogs come up missing... |
Anonymous
true for a neighbor down the street from us, so we never walk our lab that way. |
Anonymous
| Our neighbors has one and he accidentally walked his dog through it without turning the fence off...it sounded like the dog was dying. |
Anonymous
| Only a true dimwit would try an electric fence with a husky or any dog with a high prey drive. |
Anonymous
Nay. |
Anonymous
Yep. |
Anonymous
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We have one that was already installed on our two acre lot. My lab minds it perfectly. My Great Pyrenees couldn’t give a shit about it. It really depends on the dog.
I have accidentally shocked myself and have no qualms about using it. It’s like getting shocked in the winter but ten times that, however it’s over super fast. My dog got out from the fence once and I took it off so he didn’t get shocked on the way back in. Walked right through holding it in my hand like a dumbass! It wasn’t bad and it was in my bare hand versus his hairy neck. |
Anonymous
They don't get shocked on the way back in anyway. That's how they work. |