electronic dog fences....

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are they any good?
just a thought the other day as in this wet weather the grass is turning into brown sludgey mud and we have the garden half paved half grass so were looking into a possibility of keeping him on the patio.
if they are any good have any of you got any recomendations?

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Not in my experience.
They emit a sound when the Dog gets near the invisible fence...but of course the Dog doesn't know why & carries on through, getting "zapped" as he goes.
Then he is on wrong side of fence & scared to come back & get zapped again.
As there is no visible boundary the dog doesn't seem to figure out what it is he is to avoid.
Everyone I know who has tried it ended up using fences instead.
 
It's all in the training. You put little white flags around the boundary and they remove them over a period of time. The dog learns where the boundary is and the warning bleep helps reinforce that.
 
Depends on the dog and th etraining. My lurcher would run straight through them, friends labs automatically sit and wait at the boundary even when they are not wearing their collars.
 
I have one and have had it for years. Imo they are great but you have to put in the training or the dog gets confused. My ridgeback does not even wear the collar anymore and will not cross the boundary unless she is on a lead. The Rotties are more difficult and soon work out when they are not wearing the collar and walk across!!
 
I know a choc lab that runs through them, she had the deepest nut collar... no difference... owner ended up keeping her indoors/put on lead. Her other dog Yellow Lab... obeys and just sits there.
 
thanks

i was having a look on the old ebay and they are quite expensive to buy if at the end of the day it doesn't work

hmm will have to have a good think x
 
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