Electric dog fences

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Installation tips?

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Pay someone.

I had wireless a while back and I was kind of iffy on it. I'd let him out on the porch with me and he'd walk around the yard and then wander on the sidewalk and it would get him. Now it works, I just didn't like it, so just built a fence. Perfect to this day and not one problem with it so far.

May cost you a little more but eventually he'll stop giving a shite about the shock and try himself. I say fence is better.

I had an Invisible Fence brand when I had my lab. It worked great but when really motivated he could get out occasionally.

It was an inground system with the wire on the yard perimeter. We also had a wireless unit for the inside of the house to prevent him from going on the wood floors. This worked well too.

Tried the wireless fence, but I think my metal roof was causing interference, so sold that and got the in-ground. Innotek Ultra smart with rechargeable collars. Cut the grass real short where I wanted the wire buried, then took an edger and went around the desired area ~1 acre. buried wire by hand and used a rubber mallet to pack it down, PIA! Been over 3 years now and the only problem we had was during an out of country trip during winter, when the dogs went crazy b/c we were gone, my poor mom... I think the fact we were gone for 3 weeks and winter coat growing in helped the dogs escape. Got home, shaved their throats, installed longer contact prongs, cranked correction setting on high and they were reminded of the boundary. No more problems. Just got to make sure to shave their hair in winter.

Training - I started off by following the FOR SURE PETA approved training guidelines and that was a waste of time. In the end I slapped the collars on, cranked up the juice and after about 2 weeks of the dogs not leaving the porch they started to learn the boundaries.

Innotek UltraSmart lets you control the width of the boundary or distance from the buried wire when the dogs will get a warning beep then shock AND you can control the intensity of correction. Charge the collars every weekend for 30min each.

These are family pets and squirrel hunting muts. The squirrels around my house know the boundaries very well and my dogs will lay in the grass and watch/bark at the squirrels as they skirt the boundary. Other dogs roaming in and out of boundary and my dogs just don't leave. Maybe they are just happy at home and I've wasted all my time ;)

if only there was an outdoor board