Dog Fencing help please.

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Can anyone please recommend some suitable fencing for dogs that is 6ft tall and that won't block out a view, something almost as invisible as possible as the land is deemed an AONB and the council won't allow anything too intrusive to the view.

There are so many options when you look online but some seems horrendously expensive and its always useful to have a recommendation rather than buy it all and find out its not suitable strength wise or really hard to fit.

Thank you.
 
Least obstructive is stretched electric on wooden posts.
What breeds and what other fencing is around?

I've found post and rail, mesh at the bottom, with electric wire over the top and a line inset 8"will stop most dogs but unattended I use 6' mesh runs with tops.
 
Thanks sugar,

You don't have any links or pics do you so I can see the set up.

There is some hashed together post n rail but its not tall enough and I was gonna take it out and re do it altogether to make it tidier.
 
Can't see it from here & a long way through the mud to get a pic but four rail post & rail so nearly 5' high and then these at the top of the posts facing inwards. They prevent scaleing with a line of electic wire. http://www.molevalleyfarmers.com/mvf/store/products/hotline-150mm-off-set-insulator-20-pack

The lower part of the fence can be reenforced with sheep netting or chicken/rabbit wire.

You could use horse fence or deer fence but it can be more obtrusive than post & rail.
 
But I know several dogs that have gone through - got a zap and can't get back and have been lost.
They are ok to stop a steadier dog from getting away but no use for a running dog as the zap is too late to stop the dog passing the wire.
As a secondary boundary across a gateway they may work but not as a fence. I also know of a dog killed by a stray that came in.

I will not rehome a dog to anywhere that uses one.
 
A proper mesh high enough fence won't be cheap but by golly the peace of mind is worth £000s!

I had this fence put in for our rescue Doberman as he isn't livestock friendly and we and neighbours both have stock. It is electrified on top wires if needed but we havent had to switch that on. It has been excellent for lambing too and also my escapologist horses (incl the 17 handed in the pic!)

4 acres fenced with elite tornado horsemesh 5.5 feet plus two mains electric wires above plus all the electric box and all the high mesh gates etc etc cost just under £7k....:-o

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i use a freedom fence, it works very well in some situations. we have calves next to us and I dont want her escaping through to them (it is fenced as well but she can find a way through) I also have a few acres so it contains her in the first acre. the boarder is also fenced (Just post and rail and thick hedgerow with mesh in places). I find the line that is by mesh works really well as she cannot run through it (the mesh slows her down as she would have to find a way under over or through a gap in it). i also have it at the front gate, we always close the gates but if delivery comes etc .... she wont go near the gate even if its open so she wouldnt run through it. she will however run through the back field gate but only if the children have gone through it and left her the other side. you're right though. she wont come back (the other side is also our field).
It really works as a back up for me and can work very well as long as the dog is trained where the boundary is and doesnt learn to run through it. as with everything if they are not trained it often doesnt work.
 
You haven't said what size of dog this is for, but just in case, if you have a dog similar to a Finnish Lapphund which is 41 to 52 centimetres tall (= about 16,1 to 20,4 inches, sorry the internet converter where I tried with cm. to feet doesn't make sense to me) or a larger dog, but still not much wider in the chest, then forget sheep/pig netting, I know of several Lapphunds and dogs of similar size that have figured out that all the squares isn't too small for them.


A chicken/rabbit net with large "holes" is the most invisible net that I've had, however I wouldn't call it a robust net (after some years there was unwanted holes in it), and if the posts isn't standing really close to each other, it tends to be a little flabby.

I feel that nets with square shaped holes is a little bit more visible, but also more robust and less flabby.
Personally I feel that the net in the photo Lachlanandmarcus posted, is fully acceptable for me regarding not being too visible, but I don't know if the people in your council would agree with me.

:)
 
Thanks everyone for your help and ideas.


Lachlanandmarcus - I think this is what I had in mind but perhaps a little higher and without the electrics. Will investigate further.
 
I like the look of that horsemesh. We have double height sheep fencing to keep the GSDs in, although as Finny says it didn't stop the Lancashire Heeler. When he came along I had to add a layer of chicken wire along the bottom.:p
 
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