Pet Fencing Wiki – Some Problems with Traditional Wooden Fencing
Many pet owners would like for their pets to stay at home, if they could find a way to keep them there without making them feel imprisoned. Dogs, for one, may wander too far off from where their owners live. They might go about inspecting trash bins, running after cars, and wander off to far to come home. Installing wooden fences is an option. But this kind of pet fencing system might not be for everyone.
Wooden fences might not be able to prevent your dog from climbing over it. Your dog could get hurt while trying to scale it, dig under, or claw the fences. Consider also that not many have the extra time or skill to put up the wooden fences themselves. You may have to shop for the materials themselves and prepare your own tools. After sawing each fence post, you have to use a digger tool to make sure a third of the post is buried. Even after you do those there's no guarantee the fence would work as you imagine it to.
You could of course hire a contractor to do these yourself. But for some who are only renting, and who do not own their home, it might be prohibited to conduct such digging. If you live in a community where there are ordinances prohibiting setting up of physical fences, that's another problem.
Electronic or invisible pet fencing does away with ruining the landscape of where you live. There are several available ways in which pet fencing works for you and your pet. The most popular way is for wires to be buried around a specified area. A collar attached is attached to your dog. Any animal wearing that collar, when it nears the boundaries, hears a warning sound. Should the animal keep walking past the boundaries, it receives a mild corrective shock.
Another pet fencing set ups involves no wires around a perimeter. One uses radio signals sent from a central source "marks" the area via the radius or range of reach of the transmission. As with the previous system, the collar sends out a warning prior to a static shock when the dog tries to escape from the perimeter.
A potential benefit of having installed wooden fences is that, if they're high enough, and you're dog truly can't get out, then you won't have to train your dog to mind the warning signals. Still, the final decision rests on the pet owner.
