Anyone use the undergound "invisible" fence for a dog ?

[deftron]

One of my dogs has a habit of jumping over the fence and wondering off..

Not sure what to do.

Right now, he's on a really long cable, but I know he isn't able to run around and stuff.

He sees my other dog running around the yard and goes crazy

The other dog won't jump over the fence (even though I've seen her jump way higher than it)

Anyways, to fix the problem with the dog that does jump over the fence, we were going

to try to raise the height of the fence....

Then I thought about that invisible fence thing ..

If anyones used it, how well does it work?

Do you think the shock really hurts the dog?

 

[KingNothing]

How big's your dog? I'd never really consider this for a larger dog...mine's 90 pounds and would probably charge right through one of those things. She has an extremely stiff neck.

 

[Smaulz]

My brother in law uses it for two large boxers and has never had any trouble. Dunno if it helps, but he's sold on 'em.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

My great grandparent's chocolate lab failed obedience school three times. They put one of those invisible fences and she learned VERY quickly and stayed inside the "fence."

nik

 

[amnesiac]

It works, it just takes effort to train your dog to recognize its boundaries. WOrked for our old boxer who kept leaping the fence.

 

[thedarkwolf]

I bought one for my 70lbs mutt cause he kept digging under the fence and he hasn't gotten out once in the 6 months since I have put it in. The place I bought mine from had to different versions, one for regular dogs and one for stuborn dogs that really shocks the crap out of them. I bought the stronger one, I know my dog , and I tested it on myself and it does hurt pretty good but dogs are suppost to have tough skin on their necks so its probably not hurting them as bad. Wish I would have bought that before I had him deballed and put about 30 cinder blocks around the bottem of the fence neither of which did any good.

 

[UDT89]

lol u tested out the dog thing...............LOL

i can picture looking out my window across the street seeing you on all fours crawling towards the fence then falling on your back twitching.

LOL

 

[deftron]

The only place I've seen it in stores is Wal-Mart

Not sure if Invisible Fence is a brand name , but thats what it said on the box..


DO you think it will be good enough..?

I have a stubborn, medium sized dog

If not, where do they sell better versions ?

 

[Z24]

They DO work, but you have to train the dog.

If you just bury the wire, and put the collar on the dog, you deserve to get shocked every time the dog does.

You have to teach it the boundaries -- it's really simple to do, but it takes some time. It takes about a month to complete the process.

Does it hurt? yes. a lot. otherwise, it wouldn't work. But the point is, once you train the dog, it will avoid the areas. Right now, I don't think I could drag my dog across the fence-line.

 

[JellyBaby]

Anyone use the undergound "invisible" fence for a woman? *ducks*

 

[deftron]

How does the training process go ?

 

[Kanalua]

haha....remember that episode of Jack@ss (Jack-`okole for us Hawaiians)?

 

[thedarkwolf]

Originally posted by: UDT89
lol u tested out the dog thing...............LOL

i can picture looking out my window across the street seeing you on all fours crawling towards the fence then falling on your back twitching.

LOL

HAHAHA I am not that stupid

I put it on my arm and I actually did it several times . I tried to get one of my friends to do it too but he wussed.


I bought mine of some company on the web I think this one

http://petsafe-florida.com/outdoor.htm

but I am not at home and can't check. When I bought it the stubborn dog one was $129.

All I did to train mine was put the flags up where the collar gives its warning beeps and then I walked the dog into the shock zone once. After that I couldn't drag his ass into it . After a couple shocks on his own he pretty much figure it out and wouldn't go withen several feet of the flags. After a week I pulled every other flag and in another week or two pulled all the rest. By the time I had pulled all the flags he had figured out how close he could get a was pretty much back to normal other than staying a foot away from the fence at all times. You do have to keep an eye on his neck cause the probes if to tight will rub their neck raw. I was hoping that after having the collar on him for awhile he would give up trying to escape but last month I left the collar off him and withen 5 days he had figured it out and tried to escape again. The little bastard .

 

[Z24]

training process--it's explained in a video that comes with it, but i'll try to summarize (it's been a few years though). This is just to give you an idea... I can't remember exactly how often, etc. you have to do each thing.

first, white flags all around the perimeter. the way the collar works is that it beeps when you get close, and if you get too close, it zaps.

the first stage, you put a rubber cap over the electrodes so that it won't zap the dog. (but it will still beep).
-during this time, you walk the dog around the yard with a regular choke collar (in addition to the invisible fence collar) and a leash
-you walk the dog towards the fence, and when you hear the collar start to beep, you give the choke a tug, and run (with the dog) back into the yard (directly away from the fence).

the next stage, you take the rubber cap off so that the dog will get zapped.
-you follow a similar procedure of walking the dog around the yard on a leash with a choker. if the dog goes to the fence, you let it. you let it beep, and then you let it zap. as soon as it zaps, you run the dog back into the yard.

the next stage, you take the dog off the leash
-walk around the yard, etc... let the dog walk where ever. if it gets zapped by the fence, call it back into the yard.

then you do things like take the flags out slowly, and throwing sticks and balls towards the fence to make sure the dog stops.

throughout the whole thing, they stress the point: never lead the dog into the fence. if it doesn't want to go, don't force it.


It's funny, we had to do some landscaping, and had to move the buried wire. It actually increased the amount of space the dog had. The thing is, she still goes by where it used to be. For the longest time, you couldn't drag her past the "old" line (even though she's got about another 50 feet).

 

[Z24]

thedarkwolf,

you might want to keep an eye on that neck problem...

it sounds to me like your dog is still testing the fence every once and a while. our dog lost some hair at the beginning (after getting a couple shocks), but since then, it hasn't been a problem (2+ years).

you said you took the collar off the dog and it got out, so maybe it still gets zapped occaisionally. ??

might want to put a few flags back in with the collar off to see if the dog is forgetting the boundary, or actually trying to get out.

 

[deftron]

Sounds like its pretty good, and will probably solve my problem

Thanks guys

 

[thedarkwolf]

Originally posted by: Z24
thedarkwolf,

you might want to keep an eye on that neck problem...

it sounds to me like your dog is still testing the fence every once and a while. our dog lost some hair at the beginning (after getting a couple shocks), but since then, it hasn't been a problem (2+ years).

you said you took the collar off the dog and it got out, so maybe it still gets zapped occaisionally. ??

might want to put a few flags back in with the collar off to see if the dog is forgetting the boundary, or actually trying to get out.

He is still getting shocked every now again but I think it has more to do with him being stubborn/over exicted than forgeting were the boundry is. He is one of those ultra freindly kinda dogs and when people walk by he will sometimes still jump up on the fence and get zapped. Also sometimes I will be outside and hear his collar giving the warning sound and he will just be standing there in the warning zone like he is thinking about making a break for it. I don't think there is anyway I could have trained him to stay in the invisible fence's boundry if I didn't have the chain link fence backing it up. He seems to be maturing a bit quiker though lately, think he is about 1 year and 3 months or so now, and I haven't noticed him doing that stuff as much.

His neck looks fine now and I never really noticed any problems with it other than before I took it off of him for that week. The collar loosens up over time and I think I just over tightend it.