Dog Fencing – Let Your Dog Roam without the Fences
Keeping your dogs safe on your property can be achieved through dog fencing. Still there are segments of the dog owner populace that see this pet containment system as perhaps cruel and not cost effective. Sometime were hear about doubts and concerns whether dog fencing really works; if you have such worries, this short piece covers them.
Ideally, a pet containment system allows some freedom while being limited in a certain area – with some training and a perimeter set up, the dog avoids moving out of the perimeter. This could include your entire house or just a part of it, like your backyard – the area is encircled with buried wire. The boundaries of the perimeter are the wires buried, and when your dog (which wears a special collar) comes close to the wires, a warning tone is heard from the collar. Should your dog moves past the boundary, despite hearing the warning sound, a static correction is activated in the collar, and your dog feels the low volt shock.
Besides invisible dog fencing, there are other types of pet containment systems. In some indoor set ups, dog owners do not want their pets getting close to expensive furniture or installations. These are apt for a toned down and scaled down set up akin the large set up outside the home – still, the warning tone is present when the dog wanders too closely to the boundaries of the perimeter. That signal tone is the warning and precursor to the static correction that will soon follow.
Still, even in a smaller scale or indoor set up, the dog must still be sufficiently trained to properly heed the warning tones and static correction. This only serves to remind us that pet containment systems require the investment of the pet owner to train his or her pet to react the proper way, for the system to work.
for those of you who live in communities with clear regulations against putting up physical fences, invisible dog fencing is a good option. Second, dog fencing is cheaper, there are no extra hand to hire or machinery to rent since you can all do them on your own. Third, your dog will not look like its just another animal imprisoned in your property.
Those who claim the invisible dog fence set up is not worth the effort and is even detrimental to the dog cite claims based on the following – (1) some dogs ignore the tone and the static and end up going out of the perimeter at their own and other people's peril, (2) the possible breakdown of the wires and the malfunctioning on the part of the collars, and (3) about dogs getting too afraid of the shocks they do not act natural anymore.
Actually, these concerns can be addressed by sufficient dog training and routine check ups on the system – both the wires and the collars. There are ways to overcome insufficient training – if the dog owner has not enough time to properly train his or her dog, then dog trainers become a real option. So this only means the dog's adherence to the boundaries can only be maintained if the dog is trained and when the boundaries are supported by a working system, which in turn can be kept in shape by routine maintenance.
