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Title: Invisible fence or wireless containment system for small dog.
Post by: ghosthunter on December 24, 2020, 06:20:03 PM: Looking for some kind of containment system for our house dog (15 lbs) to keep him on our property. We have a fenced back yard but like to allow him run of the driveway too.

Any one have experience with the electronic area systems with no wires?
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Post by: actionshooter on December 24, 2020, 06:47:05 PM: We have about 5 acres done of the invisible fence between my daughter and I (we are neighbors) with 4 dogs. It has been working pretty well. Keeps them out of the road and other neighbors place. They bury a wire and the dogs have shock collars.
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Post by: hollymaster on December 24, 2020, 06:55:34 PM: Neighbors just put one in, but there dog is still always getting over to my house. :dunno:
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Post by: jeffro on December 24, 2020, 06:57:11 PM: Mixed results with the invisible fence.
Training is pretty simple, if the dog is trainable.
Background,
Fully fenced 3/4 acre yard with gate, all 6’ tall
3 dogs
All could jump the fence, no problem, 1 liked to dig.
After being schooled, none would approach the fenceline.
Until something irresistible caused them to cross the line
Once they get out.....
Problem is, it’s a short lived zap when they cross
No further punishment, but they won’t come back in,
because it’s gonna hurt.
Eventually all of them have been bad, and I usually find them sitting at the end of the driveway, waiting for me to remove their collar
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Post by: hughjorgan on December 24, 2020, 07:15:24 PM: Should work great for a smaller dog. We use them on our Brittanys. It is a wireless unit that has a proximity setting range, the unit plugs in somewhere in your house and the collar has a range of settings to deliver a range of shocks. Are collar settings differ for both dogs but they learned really quick where the boundaries are. It will beep to warn them when there near their boundary before it shocks them. We’re on a 1/3 of an but the unit will work on a lot bigger pieces of property. If your dog is a puppy you may want to wait till there older to use it on them.
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Post by: Mudman on December 24, 2020, 08:39:17 PM: Training collar. Shock vibrate anytime close to fence. Will learn to avoid fence completely. Requires several days of vigilance training. Works for us well.
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Post by: greenhead_killer on December 24, 2020, 09:39:22 PM: I’ll look but I think I have a kit I bought years ago and never used. Yours if you want it. I think it had 500’ of wire for direct burial plus all the other things to go with it. I’ll find it in the next day or so.
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Post by: andersonjk4 on December 24, 2020, 10:03:09 PM: Depends on how stubborn and pain tolerant the dogs are. I’ve been using the Sportdog system for close to 10 Years now with good results. Not properties (2.5 acres and 5 acres) were fully fenced, so we just zip ties the wire right to the existing fence and then buried the wire in a chunk of garden hose across the driveway. Worked great and no digging involved with install or fixing breaks. It been great for the two German shorthairs and a vizsla. We currently have a 100+ pound Great Pyrenees/Anatolian mix that minds it most of the time. But if there is something that really interests him or that he thinks is a threat he runs right through it. It should work great for a couple of 15lb dogs.
Title: Re: Invisible fence or wireless containment system for small dog.
Post by: ghosthunter on December 25, 2020, 09:30:06 AM: Quote from: greenhead_killer on December 24, 2020, 09:39:22 PM
I’ll look but I think I have a kit I bought years ago and never used. Yours if you want it. I think it had 500’ of wire for direct burial plus all the other things to go with it. I’ll find it in the next day or so.

Wow
Thanks

I don’t have a large area. 50 x100 back yard and 45 feet across driveway.
The dog is a wus but thinks he is CuJo. Got the mailman fooled anyway. Got a nasty gram from him.
The dog is older too. Spends all day in house with wife. But when gets outside he likes to take a tour of the neighbor hood and bark at shadows.
Title: Re: Invisible fence or wireless containment system for small dog.
Post by: ghosthunter on December 25, 2020, 09:31:19 AM: Quote from: andersonjk4 on December 24, 2020, 10:03:09 PM
Depends on how stubborn and pain tolerant the dogs are. I’ve been using the Sportdog system for close to 10 Years now with good results. Not properties (2.5 acres and 5 acres) were fully fenced, so we just zip ties the wire right to the existing fence and then buried the wire in a chunk of garden hose across the driveway. Worked great and no digging involved with install or fixing breaks. It been great for the two German shorthairs and a vizsla. We currently have a 100+ pound Great Pyrenees/Anatolian mix that minds it most of the time. But if there is something that really interests him or that he thinks is a threat he runs right through it. It should work great for a couple of 15lb dogs.

Yeah no digging would be my choice. I like the hose idea.
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Post by: Mudman on December 25, 2020, 09:51:01 AM: 1st time dog blows thru it after UPS guy it learns to just run faster and the invis fence becomes giant waste time, imop/experience with it. :twocents:
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Post by: hughjorgan on December 25, 2020, 09:57:57 AM: Quote from: ghosthunter on December 25, 2020, 09:31:19 AM
Quote from: andersonjk4 on December 24, 2020, 10:03:09 PM
Depends on how stubborn and pain tolerant the dogs are. I’ve been using the Sportdog system for close to 10 Years now with good results. Not properties (2.5 acres and 5 acres) were fully fenced, so we just zip ties the wire right to the existing fence and then buried the wire in a chunk of garden hose across the driveway. Worked great and no digging involved with install or fixing breaks. It been great for the two German shorthairs and a vizsla. We currently have a 100+ pound Great Pyrenees/Anatolian mix that minds it most of the time. But if there is something that really interests him or that he thinks is a threat he runs right through it. It should work great for a couple of 15lb dogs.

Yeah no digging would be my choice. I like the hose idea.

Don’t buy a unit with wires, get the wireless. Just plug it in put your collar on your dog and adjust the settings and your done.

https://www.chewy.com/petsafe-stay-play-wireless-fence/dp/192884?utm_id=401427327&msclkid=238117dda8c2109d9809483b8f41aa06&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Shopping-Product%20Targets-Hard%20Goods-SSP-DDG&utm_term=4584688614926622&utm_content=All%20Products
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Post by: ghosthunter on December 25, 2020, 11:12:33 AM: I was looking at that one last night.
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Post by: suga on December 25, 2020, 11:25:27 AM: Ghost- sent you a pm

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Post by: Pegasus on December 25, 2020, 11:27:09 AM: Several people that I know tried them. Their biggest complaint was that although it worked most of the time in keeping their dogs in the yard it did not keep other dogs out of their yards. Too many times they had to break up fights from other unrestrained dogs attacking their dogs.
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Post by: Westside88 on December 25, 2020, 01:18:40 PM: We have a large yard that we will be completely fencing, but needed something in the short term. We bought the type that has a sender that goes in the house with an adjustable radius, which we set on the max distance. It only took a couple days for our lab to learn that when she hears the warning beep it's time to turn around. I can go to the other side of the line and try to call her across and she'll stop just short of the line and sit and wait for me. In our case we would actually need a second unit to cover the back side of the house because it's a daylight basement type home and the drastic elevation change causes some issues, but most of our yard is in front anyway. I was actually surprised how well it worked and how quickly she learned the boundaries. Here's a picture of the one we bought.
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Post by: CastleRocker on December 25, 2020, 04:19:26 PM: We have that same wireless one at our lot on the Long Beach peninsula, and a Pet Smart inground one at out house. Both work well for all of our dogs, and use the same collars.

That being said, it will depend a lot on the dog. A friend of ours had an Australian Shepard that had figured out that if it snuck up on the boundary, to where the collar beeps, and then takes one more slow and careful step to the vibration setting, it could lie down right there until the battery in the collar goes dead...and then off it would go! It was something to see.