Invisible fencing/beam breaker perimeter fences

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Twizzel

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Our spaniel is starting to become a pain with regards to running out of the garden and wondering around. We live on a farm, our back garden has a large cornish hedge running along one side, and we've put up a fence/gate to separate it off as best as we can from the driveway. However Rosie jumps very well and thinks nothing of jumping up and over a 5ft cornish wall, and here lies our problem.

The farm is very busy and is also the base for a wholesaler, to which Rosie has taken a liking to going and visiting the depot and workshops. Large arctic lorries and delivery vans/lorries are always coming and going. The people who work in the depot think she is great and play with her, hence she keeps going out of the garden and over to play. It's getting to the point where we are worrying that she will be run over by something.

Does anybody have any experience of perimeter fencing that gives a shock/impulse to a collar the dog is wearing? Like a beam breaker type thing... it's the last resort but we need to sort it out asap. Can't fence the garden off anymore than we already have unless we build an 8ft fence on top of the hedge!

Any suggestions/recommendations would be greatly appreciated
 
I'd build a dog run. There are plenty of easily-assembled ones available.
The fences can be useful, but equally, they can fail, or the dog's hunt/prey drive can carry it through the shock, or the shock can prompt the dog to run faster, not knowing why or where the stim is coming from, expecially if not introduced properly.
 
If the reward on the other side of the electric fence is great enough then the dog will learn to run through the pain barrier to get what it desires.

I've acquired a very 'soft' Viz two months ago as a result of this sort of scenario; the owners lived in a farm tied cottage, dog was bogging off and discovered that if it had a nanosecond of pain it could get hours of freedom and fun! :D Strangely, a sharp vocal reprimand from me is all it needs to stop it attempting to scale my 6 foot fencing. :)

And NO that does not mean that I thrash the living bejeezers out of it!! :) If anything, quite the reverse!
 
Hmm back to the drawing board it is then! We would never rehome her, she has a home for life here, just need to crack her out of the habit pdq. Her recall isn't great with me when she knows I'm in the house, out on the farm though when we're doing the cows or walking the fields she is spot on. I think if the people who work in the depot had just ignored her like we told them to do the first time she bumbled over, we wouldn't be in this situation, but they throw things for her to retrieve and she thinks it's great fun.

CC a run isn't an option, she would hate it and there isn't anywhere to put one- our garden is laid to lawn but is no more than 3-4 inches of soil under the grass then you hit granite and all of the water/oil pipes to the house, so wouldn't be able to anchor it down on the lawn.
 
What's the difference between a run and a fenced garden? For periods when you're not there to keep an eye on her? Ours aren't anchored, they were just assembled in the yard and the roof part weighs them down. While I appreciate they wouldn't be ideal for a lawn, couldn't you have one on the yard then she'd be secure and able to see all the goings on?
 
No there's not enough patio room to have a run :-/ We are going to get one of those screw in stakes, I've got a 20ft long line from when she was a puppy and when she wants to go out she will have the run of the garden and lawn but still be anchored down so she can't go wondering.
 
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