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twraska |
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Wallis, TX | I need a wireless dog fence to keep a couple of labs from wandering off. Need it to be as large an area as possible. Any brand recommendations? Can I put two transmitters up to get a larger range/take out the 'shadow' of a barn? Any ideas would be appreciated. | ||
Riverbottom30 |
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Central IL | I used to have a Petsafe wireless system. If I remember right each transmitter did a 300 ft radius. It worked good until I had more dogs than I had collars for. Then the ones without collars would tempt the others to run off. These were labs also. There were different strengths to set it at. Full strength for labs. All in all it worked good. I now have a 7 wire high tensile fenced in area in my yard/timber. Definitely don't have to worry about them now. | ||
Franz |
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Ohio | If you get one where you bury a wire you're only limited by how much wire you bury. | ||
twraska |
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Wallis, TX | Burying not too good of an option, too many obstacles. Thought about putting the wire up like an electric fence. Would that work???? | ||
Franz |
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Ohio | Yes it doesn't matter if you bury it or not. The collar still senses the wire and shocks the dog. | ||
Fawazhay |
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Northern CA | I bought the wireless "Havahart" (sp?) system. I was thoroughly not pleased. The company tried to help, but in the end no luck. For starters, their website didn't say at the time the program to "see" the invisible fence was not Mac compatible. Then, our house is newer and has siding that is concrete based I think. It doesn't transmit around corners or the house well in general because of that. In the end, I spent $850 to put all the parts in the junk drawer. Want it real cheap? | ||
prairieguy |
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The eastern part of the more tropical Dakota | We just went through this with our new "free" dog. It seems it is hard to find a wireless with much range. We ended up with a sport dog wired system. Installation was a little pain when digging through driveways etc... Other places where the vegetation was thick by the existing barbed wire fence, we just laid it on the ground. In the lawn, I mounted a yetter fertilizer coulter on my bobcat to cut a shallow trench. Overall we are satisfied with it. | ||
Duane NC OH |
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Republic OH (NC OH) | I went with the shock collar rather than the fence. it helped a lot with her. doesn't take to many shocks to get her to stop. what I really like is that it has a "tone button". you use it to get their attention. then you follow it up with the shock if they don't respond. now the tone works and no shocks are necessary. it has a big range so I could take her to other farms and call her with a tone to come to me. with a fence they could run through it and keep running at least mine would. either way it is no substituent for good training in the 7 commands of dog training. jmho | ||
Von WC Ohio |
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Easy to make an installer so obstacles are not that big of a deal. Here is the installer I made to help my sister put her system in. For obstacles and lots of curves I would use a plow coulter to better follow around corners etc. Also better to use a 14 gauge THHN (stranded) wire for better results as what is in the underground kit is not as good. http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=83979
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agrogers |
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21617 | http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=650768&mid=546... I second the guy above me. No replacement for solid training and Garmin Alpha 100 will make it easy. It can be used to keep the dogs around your home, and you can go anywhere with it and be 100% in control. Usually the tone is enough to get their attention. | ||
Eronningen |
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Plainview, mn | I have about 5 acres with petstop. Its an underground wire they put in. Works great. 2 shepherds. | ||
twraska |
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Wallis, TX | The rest of the story...... Daughter moved and took her two dogs to son's house with his lab. He lives a half mile off the road so we though maybe they'd stay close and play at the river 300 yards from his front door. No luck, were at the highway within 5 minutes. We can try my house but I don't have a tall enough fence to keep them from crawling over. May try electric hot shot around it. Just about burnt up a shock collar trying to train the young one. She is just too high spirited, even now at 3+ years. If she stays around the rest will too, otherwise they all go for a romp. As to the wire type,,,, any ideas on what to do over my concrete drive? Paved all the way to the road. Can I get by with a 20' gap in the perimeter wire? | ||
sflem849 |
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SE WI | twraska - 8/16/2016 08:39 As to the wire type,,,, any ideas on what to do over my concrete drive? Paved all the way to the road. Can I get by with a 20' gap in the perimeter wire? Put it in an expansion crack. Pay someone to directional bore it. Bore it yourself with a pressure washer (YouTube). | ||
n_gus347 |
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We trenched a Sport Dog brand fence around 4 acres. Works perfectly fine for us! Was a nice long weekend with the trencher though... We got it at Menards with the 11% rebate sale | |||
inotill |
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Harlan, KY | I have their in ground cable now, my next house we are going to get their new GPS collars with defined boundries on google maps. | ||
twraska |
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Wallis, TX | Only 12 hour battery life on the collar before needing to be recharged. | ||
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