Looking to purchase a geofence for our dogs when we go to the fishing camp. It’s close enough to the roadway and the water and I don’t want my dogs to get near either one. Anyone have any recommendations on a good/safe geofence?

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Posted by tenfoe

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Posted on 12/10/23 at 4:26 pm to Tiger328

I have a Halo on my stubborn dog. It does an ok job. For how much they cost I would prefer being able to shock her into a front flip, but regardless it’s ok. Battery is only good for about 24 hrs so that probably doesn’t work for most people. Mine stays on about 4 acres during the day and sleeps by the door at night while the collar charges. She doesn’t get up until I walk out to put the collar on her in the morning.

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Posted by keakar

Member since Jan 2017

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Posted on 12/10/23 at 5:18 pm to Tiger328

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Best GeoFence for Dogs

are they smart dogs, or dumb dogs?

it works great for dumb dogs, because they cant figure it out.

but smart dogs learn pretty quick they can run to get past it with minimal shock and then go wherever they want to.

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Posted by BoogaBear

Member since Jul 2013

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Posted on 12/10/23 at 5:26 pm to tenfoe

We've tried tractive and halo. My GSP is so fast he is beyond the boundary before the GPS even registers so no shock. The durability of the halo was also horrible. He broke it in 2 months, just running through the woods.

Tractive has been good, but it doesn't shock. I have been very OCD about training our dogs with tractive. I can track them live and turn on the sound of the collar if they are where I don't want them to be. They respond very well and have started staying in our property. We have 20 acres for the dogs to roam.

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Posted by texn

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Posted on 12/11/23 at 12:54 pm to tenfoe

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I have a Halo on my stubborn dog. It does an ok job. For how much they cost I would prefer being able to shock her into a front flip, but regardless it’s ok. Battery is only good for about 24 hrs so that probably doesn’t work for most people. Mine stays on about 4 acres during the day and sleeps by the door at night while the collar charges. She doesn’t get up until I walk out to put the collar on her in the morning.

My experience/thoughts as well. I would add that Halo's tracking is much better than the Fi collar (Fi only tracks, not corrects)...while Fi would tell me which one of my neighbors' ranchette my dog on 3 minutes ago, Halo would tell me which of my neighbor's bushes my dog was peeing on that very second.

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Posted by akimoto

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Posted on 12/11/23 at 10:48 pm to Tiger328

We use Halo on our dogs for a 3 acre lot. The mutt we have won’t go past the boundaries if she has the collar on, regardless of it shocks her or not. Our standard poodle is hit or miss with his on. The collar is throwing error codes and still in the process of getting it fixed/replaced.

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Posted by bubba102105

Member since Aug 2017

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Posted on 12/12/23 at 6:56 am to Tiger328

We've used Halo on our dog for about the last 6 months or so with good luck on 2.5 acres. He was already trained on an ecollar so it was an easy transition, he's yet to escape***knock on wood***. Matter of fact the shock prongs aren't even in it anymore but he retreats as soon as he hears that beep.

Depending on where you are and cell signal strength, they may get some false alerts but has been minimal for us. Overall we're satisfied.

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