What Do You Know about Invisible Dog Fences?
By Suze05
@Suze05 (480)
United States
March 27, 2007 1:22am CST
I have to move from my house very soon with my 3 dogs. Not by choice, my landlord sold my house.. so I'm looking for a place I can keep my puppies that has a fenced back yard. They have a huuuuge fenced yard here to run in, so they're not used to having to be walked on a leash anymore..and they love to run in the yard, so I feel like I need a place with a yard they can play in. I have the opportunity to buy a mobile home if I can come up with the 1800.00 down payment in the limited time I have left to find a place, but its in a mobile home park. They will let me have my dogs, but they require you to walk your dogs on a leash because they dont let you put up fences on the property. The good thing is its in the same park my mom and dad live in and just 2 trailers away from them..so It would be pretty kewl to be able to get it. I will eventually move it to a piece of land so they can have their own place to run, but in the meantime they will need to be in the park, so I'm thinking maybe I'll try invisible fence. That way, I can let them go outside and run at least around the outside of the trailer. I'd just have to be out there with them to make sure no other animal comes into the yard and fights with them, or they don't go through the fence for some reason..but still it would be better than making them live on leashes. So.. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with these fences, or knows anyone who has, and do they work? will they keep the dogs inside of the fenced area, even if one of them is a great dane?
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@filmbuff (2909)
• United States
8 Apr 07
I've heard that they work but are not reliable and that it really depends on the dog as to how well it will work. My dog is single-minded and mostly painproof...she would go through a shock to chase after something. Other dogs however will get the shock and back off, it's a crap shoot as to if it will work or not.
The other issue is the humane one. Do you really want to inflice pain on your dogs, or tramatize them be delivering a shock to them when ever they get too close to a fence? I know that I wouldn't.
I'm not fond of leashing them either. When my dog was a puppy (and could get out of the backyard easily) we created a leash line, but it seemed very cruel and we took her off it as soon as she was too big to fit through a fence. In retrospect I wish I never would have done at all.
