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gypsy
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posted May 25, 2004 12:51 PM
Hello all, I have a husky/belgian tervuren mix. I don't have a fence, and so I keep her out on the backyard with a long chain. I want to install an electronic fence, however, there are deer all over around my property, and she goes nuts everytime she sees them, which is everyday, and she always wants to chaise them. Should I trust an electronic fence? I know my dog can be trained easily, but do any of you have them and have had a problem? There are so many brands out there, I want to buy and install myself rather than having a company come and install in order to save $$, any brand you might recommend?? I really want to do this so she can run freely and not keep getting caught in the chain, but I have heard stories of dogs who after years escaped with an electronic fence. What do you think??
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Posts: 43 | From: New Jersey USA | Registered: Apr 2004
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ellierat
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posted May 25, 2004 03:20 PM
I have no experience with the electronic fence, but in the meantime here is a suggestion.
We live on a 10acre property, before we were able to fence in a backyard, one of my labs would run off after rabbits, so we hooked up a steel line between two posts and ran an ordinary lead along it. I could hook her up and let her run for all her might a few times a day.
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GretaJack
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posted May 26, 2004 04:39 AM
I do have an electric fence. I love mine but they are not foolproof. If your dog has a strong sense to chase it is a good possiblity that it will do through the fence and take a shock. If I had any advice for you, borrow someones remote shock training collar. Ask how to properly use it and then put it on your dog. See how it responds to a shock. I had one that coward and ran back to me and I also had one the jumped when she received the shock and kept doing what she was doing, which was rabbit chasing. My rabbit chaser does now respect my fence and will not break, only after 2.5 years of having it.
Posts: 195 | From: Wisconsin | Registered: Dec 2003
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gypsy
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posted May 27, 2004 06:26 AM
Thanks you guys so much for your advices. Yes, ellierat, my husband and I just decided that that would be a good thing to do at least for now, hook up two poles and run a line in between so just she (Darla, my dog) can run and get her exercise. And, we will try in the meantime a shock collar (thanks gretajack, GREAT idea!!) and see how she responds to the shock and then go from there and at some point install an electronic fence. We are afraid of installing it now, because is she decides to run off and chaise the deer she might end up in the streets, this past weekend I found her happilly walking on the street and that is not something I want to happen again. I hope to install the fence at some point, since it's so much cheaper than a real fence, but we gotta go cautiously, don't want to regret later. Thank you all for your valuable tips. Later.
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pittie gurl
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posted May 28, 2004 04:14 PM
I know that not every dog is like this, but I knew a lady who had a Golden retriever that she used the electric fence for. Every day the dog got out. The lady began to wonder how. So she put video cameras in the trees all around her property for 2 days. When she took them down & watched the tape she figured out that her dog was tucking her chin over the box on the collar to her chest & walking over the electric fence. She had a chainlink fence put up after that.
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posted May 28, 2004 05:29 PM
gypsy,
I had also considered an electric fence to keep my weim from wandering away.... she isn't outside alone ever, but sometimes she doesn't obey the "here" command. We decided on an electric ("Shock") collar instead. We went with the collar simply because we felt it was a more valuable training tool than the fence. A fence will teach your dog not to run out of the yard, but what happens when you are someplace else with your dog? Will she come when you call EVERY TIME, even with distractions??
Do you have the collar now? The tri-tronics collar I purchased came with a very informative trianing manual and video.. Remember, the shock shouldn't be a harsh punishment, just a reminder to obey... and it is very important that you are properly trained on how to use. You can download the manual for free at www.tritronics.com
Good luck!
Good Luck!
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gypsy
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posted May 30, 2004 12:24 PM
Thanks guys for all the replies. This is a very difficult decision indeed, as we don't want our dog to get out in the streets. On one hand we want her to be able to run free without the chain she is attatched to right now, which she keeps getting caught on all the time. What bothers us the most is that she loves to chaise deer, and she keeps hanging herself on her own collar all the time because of the chain. We tried putting her on a harness while she's on the chain outside, so she doesn't injure her throat all the time, but she still gets caught all the time. There is no keeping deer out her sight, they live here!
weimlover0816, thank you for the valuable idea of the chock collar, no, we do not own one, but that is something we will try. Perhaps if she gets used to it and we know she obeys it then we can try the electri fence, as Gretajack mentioned above.
Thank you all for your valuable insights. I saw some remote chock collars on the Dr. Foster and Smith catalog, I'll look into them!
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posted May 31, 2004 08:40 AM
Regarding electric fences. They do keep a dog in, they just dont keep anything out. So the deer will still come to your yard, and excite your do got chase them (possibly even to the extent that he'll ignore the shock). If this poses a problem for you you might have no alternative than to get a dog run, or fence your yard.
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