Recommendations for invisible wireless dog fence

[Vida Winter]

Have you used one of these?

 

Pros and cons? I'd like to find one of these with a large range. We can't do a wire due to frozen ground/snow.

[TranquilMind]

They don't work. A real fence is far preferable.

[Vida Winter]

They don't work. A real fence is far preferable.

 

We can do a buried wire fence later when the ground thaws but we have a real problem now with a dog bothering a neighbor. Large golden retriever puppy, getting in their garbage. She's almost a year old.

[Carol in Cal.]

Just make sure you can't hear the supposedly inaudible sound yourself.

I can hear it, and it's a horrible, horrible thing for me to be around.  It sounds like an unbelievably high pitched tone that is inside of my head, not coming in from the outside--very weird and quite intolerable; to the point that if a next door neighbor got one I'd probably have to move away.  Seriously.  Fortunately I have to be within about 6 feet of it to hear it.

[wendy not in HI]

http://www.dogfenceexperts.com/

 

I used recommendations from this website to install our wired dog fence.  It took some time for me to dig it in by hand, so for a while, there were portions of the fence just laying on the ground.  Much of our yard was "wild" with trees and shrubs, so I just wound the wire along the bottom of the hedge, the rest of our yard was lawn, so I buried using a straight edge shovel.  It took  me about 2 months to get it all in... I'm sure I could have done it faster with a little help, but my husband was deployed and I needed a way to have our dog safely out in our yard with us NOW and I didn't want to wait.  

 

All that to say, you can lay the wire on top of the snow for now, and bury it in the spring.  I would go with wire rather than wireless - more reliable.  It does take some time to train your dog in the new system - be consistent!!  They do work, if you put in the training time.

 

ps - i could not hear the wire at all.  Our neighbor also had a wire fence - no sound.  Our dog and their dogs were able to be out in their own yards at the same time and not go near the fence.  It was awesome!

 

edited to add - we had a rambunctious golden retriever - we put in the wire fence when he was about a year old.  Worked beautifully!

Edited February 11, 2016 by wendy in HI

[Carol in Cal.]

My husband can't hear it either.  It's unusual to hear it at all, but worth checking to see whether you're one of the ones who does.

[NoPlaceLikeHome]

My inlaws always had big dogs like german shepherds and wireless fences did not work. The dog just ignored the shocks and happily left the property.

[Lolly]

I have had one. Lots of my neighbors have one. They are BAD. I mean horrible and awful things. They cause the dogs to become territorial and mean. They cause the dogs to view humans as causing them pain. Look up invisible fence causes aggession...(one example https://paws4udogs.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/should-i-get-an-invisible-fence/)Then, realize that there is actually nothing to stop them from leaving the fenced area. Once they realize that if they take a millisecond of pain to run the fence, they are free. After that...well, they are free. All of the dogs I have known personally that have been behind an invisible fence (including mine) have learned to break free and have become aggressive. The only use I think they should have is as a secondary fence for a hard to contain dog. (A regular fence as first fence. Invisible fence used to keep them from climbing of digging the regular fence.)

[Carrie12345]

We looked at many (above ground) options, but didn't find anything that would work for our situation.  Mostly because our property is far from level.  We found remote collars with a vibrate option, but my dogs knew their boundaries well enough that they never really tried to cross them while I was present, and I obviously couldn't use the remote without seeing them, so I can't tell you if it actually "worked".  We resorted to an actual fence.

 

My neighbors' dogs adhered to their underground invisible fence very well.  The problem was that I could never walk my dogs past their house because THEY didn't know there was an invisible fence.  They felt threatened every time those two dogs would stand there, barking.  And my kids didn't want to walk or ride their bikes past until they were much older.  Because of the set up of our street, it seriously impacted our mobility, and I always resented them for that.