Registered: Jun 2003
Location: tenn, usa
Posts: 144

Do any of you have invisible fence? I have a question. does the fence wire have to come inside the door to the Box that plugs into the outlet?
Thinking of getting a fence for a small dog. Any info would be appreciated, Thanks.

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Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Mercer PA
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The fence is bacically a continuous loop. It has to end where it starts, at the box that controls the intensity. I have had two of them. At my dads house, the control box is in a barn and the loop goes out into a field. At my old house, the control box was under a deck and looped around the yard.

If you decide to install one, the easiest way I have found is to get an gas powered edging tool and a edging shovel. Run the edger in your loop then have one person doing the edging shovel in from and another pushing the wire in with a ruler. It goes very fast once you get rolling.

You can change the intensity that the the wire gives off from the control box. The higher you turn it up, the farther the signal is given off. You have to play with it to make sure the dog is not getting shocked everwhere in the loop especially if you are fencing a small area.

Two other tips. Make the loop as smooth as possible with not bumps or jagged edges in the shape it. Alot of the effectiveness of the loop is mental for the dog and even a couple inches of play in a loop where they can take an extra step gives them the courage to bust through. It seems onces they break it mentally, they are gone regardless of the shock.

LAST, spend the time training the dog. I would train daily for at least two weeks before I would let the dog in the fence for small periods of time. If you don't and they break it once, it is tough to get them to stay. Good luck.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: tenn, usa
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Registered: Feb 2006
Location: Back Swamp East, NC
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on what Briar said, especially training.
You have to hook up the ends to the box, also, to cancel out signal from loop to box you twist the wires together (ex: 100' loop, you have to come from some point in the loop back inside to box, this is the place you twist wire together, use an electric drill for this makes the job a lot faster)
Got one when they first came out for some yard dogs and worked pretty well until one finally tried it, he never stayed inside it again if he wanted to get something outside the boundary. The rest it worked like a charm, training is the key.
If you want to talk or don't follow the twist part give me a call the number is on the website (under www on my thread)
Hope it works well for you...
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: "The Mountain State" Where it's uphill both ways!
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I've been selling a few of these lately, seemed to be liked by those guys , I've not used one myself, they are wireless





http://www.petsafe.net/pet_containm...OD_CODE=PIF-300

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: ALABAMA
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They have two versions. Wired and wireless.

Yes, the wired lines will have to come to where you place the control unit box. If you put the control unit inside the house, the wires will need to lead to it. By twisting the wires, you'll block out the boundry field so leading up into the house will not be effected.

If you plan on adding one, I would advise to set it up like a home alarm system with a 12v back-up battery in case of power outage if the invisible fence is your only fence in keeping the dog in the yard.

I put one in a few years back for my lab to try and keep him contatined in a certain part of the back yard. I had a stubborn dog collar on him on the highest setting and he would still walk through it. You could see him shaking his head as he was getting shocked but he kept on through. Never could get him trained on it. He was determined to get where he was going regardless of getting zapped.

I accidently shocked myself with that collar on half the setting than what his collar was set at and I'm sure folks 3 blocks away heard me yell out, LOL. If that felt like that at half the setting his was set at, then he was really get licked when he went through the shock zone.

I already had a fence yard so mine wasn't gonna be use for yard containment, it was just to keep him in a certain area of the yard.

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Registered: Nov 2005
Location: tupelo ms
Posts: 505

i had a eagle and a rottweiller in the undergroud fence and it work fine untill the beagle found out he could stand close to the fence so the audible beep sounded but would not shock him unless he got closer. apparently the beeper used alot of power from the battery in the collar, he would simply stand there untill the collar quit beeping (battery dead) and walk across the boundry. the rott would see the beagle out and just charge the fence while shaking his head and run through it. both dogs would be sitting at the end of the driveway waiting for me to let them back in when I got home. this was one of the cheaper systems, so I might have gotten what I paid for.

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Registered: Mar 2004
Location: NH
Posts: 63

We had one and it worked well unless the power was out or we had a stubborn dog. The thing I don't like about them (wire in ground) is if they see something that they want bad enough to make them cross the line and get zapped they are less likely to come back in on their own because they will get zapped again. Notice I said we HAD one. Back in July we had a tree struck by lightning about 150 ft behind our house. The lightning went into the ground and towards the house. Once it hit the invisible fence wire it followed it both ways around the house and into the receiver. We now have trenches where the wire WAS and the receiver was blown into pieces.

If I was going to get another I would get the wireless. Another thing I like about the wireless is you can take it with you on vacation. Definitely make sure you spend plenty of time training the dog.

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