Can someone recommend to me a good invisible fence pls?

[Alistar7]

Originally posted by: Lothar
What happens if your dog takes a leak on the electric fence?

The cables are generally insulated and buried undergound. It is also the "trip wire" for the collar to shock the dog, I wouldn't expect the animal to be getting that close.

 

[Modelworks]

Have any of you actually put the collar on your own arm or hand to see what the shock is like ?
I have never used on of the devices for fear that it was too cruel to the dog.
Just curious how intense the shock really is.

 

[thedarkwolf]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
Have any of you actually put the collar on your own arm or hand to see what the shock is like ?
I have never used on of the devices for fear that it was too cruel to the dog.
Just curious how intense the shock really is.

It hurts. I have regular collars and a stubborn dog collar. The regular one is more startling then pain full, does still hurt though, but the stubborn dog version hurts a good bit. The dogs figure out the limits pretty quick and there is a warning beep when they start getting too close so they rarely get shocked after the first couple. Its either invisible fence or chaining them up every time I let them go outside. Which sounds more cruel?

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Alistar7

Originally posted by: Lothar
What happens if your dog takes a leak on the electric fence?

The cables are generally insulated and buried undergound. It is also the "trip wire" for the collar to shock the dog, I wouldn't expect the animal to be getting that close.

It doesn't work like that.

There's a wire you bury, and it just acts like a radio antenna. When the radio signal is close enough to the collar, it activates a warning beep. If the dog continues towards the wire, it will activate a shock.

It's all done by radio waves.

 

[runzwithsizorz]

Something I want the OP, and others to consider, and this is a true story I saw firsthand. One of my neighbors had one of these type of fences, and during a storm, lightening struck a tree in his back yard, it traveled to the base of the tree where it *found* the copper fence wire. It then followed the wire out to the front yard underneath his driveway to where the wire was wrapped around the homes 1" pvc water supply pipe, the pipeline was shattered! Then into the garage where it blew the fence controller, and the sprinkler clock clear across the garage, the pieces of which, hit, or skipped across both his cars, and finally into the house, need I tell you what happened next??? Something I cannot explain, but like I said, I saw this with my own eyes, the homeowner showed me that their bedroom doorknob had been blown off, WTF!!
This dog fence was a pro install, so me thinks the mans insurance co. will be getting in *touch*.
Just my 2 cents, and food for thought.

 

[Alistar7]

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: Alistar7

Originally posted by: Lothar
What happens if your dog takes a leak on the electric fence?

The cables are generally insulated and buried undergound. It is also the "trip wire" for the collar to shock the dog, I wouldn't expect the animal to be getting that close.

It doesn't work like that.

There's a wire you bury, and it just acts like a radio antenna. When the radio signal is close enough to the collar, it activates a warning beep. If the dog continues towards the wire, it will activate a shock.

It's all done by radio waves.

Not shit sherlock, hence the " " around trip wire. I did not literally mean it was a trip wire in the classic boobytrap sense. The dog won't get close to the UNDERGROUND wire, otherwise it will TRIP the collar.