Invisible Fence

The Invisible Fence is awesome! We have split our back yard up so that there is a dog side and people side. Now we can have a BBQ without worrying about guests getting mauled or the dogs helping themselves to yummy plates being held a little too low. I also don’t worry about the old wood fence being chewed or dug under…even at the gate. I don’t have to worry about catching Chelan (my Husky) before she bolts through the gate when I open it, or worry about the gate being left open. I can even have the dogs in the front yard that isn’t fenced at all (except by Invisible Fence).

I Love the Invisible Fence and trust my dogs on it completely. It’s those neighbors I have to watch out for!!! People that say Invisible Fence doesn’t work either, didn’t follow all the guidelines, don’t understand the how / why it works and have made assumptions, or they knew someone that had a cheap knock off from a pet store – it didn’t work so they figure they’re all crap.

The first dog trainer I took Petie to as a puppy insisted that a dog has to see the barrier. He said it was cruel because the dog doesn’t know the boundaries. — Not at all true!

He told me to use a regular electric fence to keep Petie in. In some of the places I’ve at the yard wasn’t fenced at all so I would put up an electric fence that merely consisted of fence poles (metal and/or fiberglass) and wires. The fence was would only be three feet high, but it worked just fine…when it was working. Other places I lived had an existing wood or chain-link fence that I would attach a top and bottom wire to prevent chewing, digging, jumping. The electric fences worked, but with Invisible Fence I don’t have any of the problems that I used to, like:

1. The fence always shorting out when the grass got too long

2. Shorting out when the wind blows tree branches onto the fence

3. Wind knocking the gate down causing a lose in electrical connection

4. Neighborhood dogs running through, ripping the wires off the fence poles and shorting the fence out

5. Neighborhood kids daring each other to touch the fence

6. Chelan knowing that the fence is out… starts chewing on rotten fence boards or digging under the fence

7. Not being able to have a wire run by the gate because of the way the yard was set up and/or because of the way electricity works.

8. Moisture getting into the electrical box and shorting everything out…I went through four fencers (electrical boxes) in seven years. They don’t have the warranty that Invisible Fence has.

Electric fences also don’t have the back up battery, and warning signals that Invisible Fence has when the power goes out or connection lost. I had to spend a lot of time checking the fence line when I had the electric fence, making sure nothing was touching it. With Invisible Fence I just change the collar batteries that are mailed to me every three months and then test the collar once a month or so.