Sep 04 2010
Electronic Dog Fence - Keep Your Dogs Where You Can See Them
If you love your dog, then you must be worried when it’s not home all day. They may come back day after day, but what they come back with wounds? The worst part is that some don’t come back at all. One effective way of keeping your dog at home, while giving him room to roam, is to install a dog fence. Some pet owners are sceptical about this kind of pet containment system, so here’s more info on the matter to help you decide.
The fence is not visible to the naked eye
The principle behind setting up an electronic dog fence is to prevent your dog from leaving the area. A very high physical fence, or an electrically-armed one could probably do the same job. The inconvenience there is even if you pay contractors to install the physical fence, your dog might find away to scale it, or injure himself trying. Electrically charged fences, while it might work for large properties in wooded and in farm areas, are a tad impractical in urban areas.
The practical alternative is for electronic fences. There are several ways in which this set up works. The most popular is for wires to be buried in the boundaries of the area where you don’t want your dog to leave. The dog wears a collar with a device that emits a distinct warning sound every time the dog approached the boundaries. If the dog ignores the warning and continues to move past the boundaries, it receives a corrective shock. Over time, and with some proper training, your dog will remain in the area - even though there’s nothing visually keeping him inside.
Other systems of containing your dog work along the same lines. One set up involves the use of radio signals broadcast from a central source. When the dog leaves a specified radius, the collar it wears sends out a warning, and later on a shock. Another way is to rely for marking the area and tracking the dog on the Global Positioning System. In both these set ups, no wires are buried around the area in which the dog must stay.
Aesthetic and humanitarian benefits of electronic dog fences
For some people who are only renting, putting up physical fences may not be allowed. The same problem holds for areas where such digging up and installation are prohibited by ordinances. Electronic dog fences work around those conditions. You don’t have to ruin the landscape of your home with such a fence, and neither will your dog look like it’s hemmed in. Your dog can run around without its view partially hidden by anything.
With an dog fence, you can be sure your dog won’t wander off, get lost, or hurt himself outside.
