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Location: Missouri | What does everyone use to keep their pets in their yard? We live close to a road that people constanly drive too fast on and have lost 2 dogs this year becuase of that. Curious to see what everyone uses. It doesn't help that the neighbor constantly pets the dogs when they come across the road, leading to the dog wanting to go across the road. I was thinking invisible fence or wireless. Thank you!! |
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Location: Jersey Girl | I used the invisible fence system. Worked well for my dog as he totally respected it. Some dogs will run right thru it tho. |
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Location: TEXAS | A fence ....why would you not have them secured in a fence? |
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Location: Missouri | slacy09 - 2015-10-02 8:54 AM
A fence ....why would you not have them secured in a fence?Â
That is what I am asking about. The type of fence people use and have found to work. I have been pushing for a fence since February when all my dogs were still alive, but have still not gotten one. Now, I would like opinions on the type of fence people recommend so that I can get one. |
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Location: Florida.. | if your out of city get the wire fence , if your in neighborhood get chainlink or privacy.. we as owners have to do this to protect our animals.. we cant blame anyone (drivers, cars , people) if we arent being responsible ourselves. |
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Location: Missouri | Bibliafarm - 2015-10-02 9:40 AM
 if your out of city get the wire fence , if your in neighborhood get chainlink or privacy.. we as owners have to do this to protect our animals.. we cant blame anyone (drivers, cars , people) if we arent being responsible ourselves.
I do not blame anyone but myself for what has happened, trust me this is eating me alive that I have not gotten a fence sooner. But what I would really appreciate is the type and kind of fences people recommend. I understand everyone is very quick to judge on why my dogs have not been in a fence sooner, and like I said I take for responsibility for the loss of life, as it is not fair to them that my lack of effort resorts in their death. Any recommendations on fence models and what works great would be kindly appreciated. |
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| I have a chain link fence. Great investment. |
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Location: "...way down south in the Everglades..." | Sorry about your dogs...chain link is probably best assuming you don't have a dog that digs under them or climbs over them (mine actually did both when she was young). I've tried the invisible fence and with most dogs it works great, but you do have to train them to it. I think some people put it up and then the dogs run through and they just say the fence doesn't work. In reality, the training is a huge part of getting that fencing to work. Of course there will be some dogs that don't care and run through it, just like some horses don't respect electric fence. I can't remember the brand I had but I know I bought it at Walmart and it wasn't terribly expensive. New place has chain link and my now older dog does perfectly fine with it. |
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Location: Missouri | The quickest and easiest option (and portable!) would be on of the e-fences where you plug the charger in your house. It gives them a large circular perimeter. Even if you invest in a permanent fence, this would get you through until it's installed.
Something like this: http://www.amazon.com/PetSafe-Wireless-Containment-System-PIF-300/dp/B0001ZWZ8O/ref=sr_1_3?s=pet-supplies&ie=UTF8&qid=1443798764&sr=1-3&keywords=electric+fence
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Location: Florida.. | mlh0972 - 2015-10-02 10:49 AM Bibliafarm - 2015-10-02 9:40 AM if your out of city get the wire fence , if your in neighborhood get chainlink or privacy.. we as owners have to do this to protect our animals.. we cant blame anyone (drivers, cars , people) if we arent being responsible ourselves. I do not blame anyone but myself for what has happened, trust me this is eating me alive that I have not gotten a fence sooner. But what I would really appreciate is the type and kind of fences people recommend. I understand everyone is very quick to judge on why my dogs have not been in a fence sooner, and like I said I take for responsibility for the loss of life, as it is not fair to them that my lack of effort resorts in their death. Any recommendations on fence models and what works great would be kindly appreciated.
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Location: Missouri | Thank you for the recommendations. |
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Location: Florida.. | I think its cheaper then chainlink.. |
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^^ This. I have used it for 5 years or so.
They sell them on Amazon, and cost is about $250. Well worth the investment. |
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Used this for 7 years now, keeps our big 150# Malamute in with no problems!!! |
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| We have regular dog wire with a hot wire around the bottom so they can't dig out. I don't like the invisible fence in our area because other dogs can get in it and I'm afraid it would fail to work one day. I just feel more secure using a actual fence ;) |
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| Tn_Barrelracer - 2015-10-02 1:19 PM
We have regular dog wire with a hot wire around the bottom so they can't dig out. I don't like the invisible fence in our area because other dogs can get in it and I'm afraid it would fail to work one day. I just feel more secure using a actual fence ;)
Believe me, even if it fails one day(or turned off for a few months by small child) it takes the dogs a long time to figure it out. Once a dog gets shocked several times, and I turn mine up on the highest so they get the point the first time, they don't test it very often after! They learn exactly were the boundary is and we couldn't even call ours across it, we would have to get a leash and force them to cross it when we would take them with us. |
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Location: TN | Most of the time my dogs are inside or running around at the barn with me, but when they're at the house I let them out in the yard to play/potty. I have a chainlink fence in the back, which worked great until our Catahoula (who hates to be contained anywhere) figured out he could push his way under it. Everytime he went out there he would escape and go lay in the front yard lol. He taught my other dogs how to do it though and one of them is a beagle who wanders soooo we put a low voltage hot wire around the bottom portion of the fence and one little zap was all it took to teach them to respect it. I haven't had the hotwire connected in a year though - have no longer needed it. The only reason I didn't go with the invisible fence is I didn't like the idea of them getting zapped without seeing a barrier to go along with the zap. |
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| We have an underground fence for 3 of them, then the other one just runs loose. He's road smart though and gets out of the way. |
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| We have five ft. Pipe fence with the horse wire around our place. Our ground is hard enough we don't have to worry about them digging under it. Wasn't cheap though. Cost us $10 a foot eleven years ago. |
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Location: Where I am happiest | luckyjo - 2015-10-02 8:05 PM We have five ft. Pipe fence with the horse wire around our place. Our ground is hard enough we don't have to worry about them digging under it. Wasn't cheap though. Cost us $10 a foot eleven years ago.
This is what we have also and it has worked awsome. No dogs off the property and no strays on. The entire paremater of our property is fenced like this so they do have the run of the whole place. You can just go get T posts and the small squared wire fencing and have a fence up in just a few hours. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | We built the ultimate dog pen. Dog wire on all four sides and ON TOP!! My girl was only about 100 pounds but the first time she was locked in there and a thunder-storm came along.... She ripped a hole through the wire and was GONE for three days. I was worried sick!!! |
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Location: Here | mlh0972 - 2015-10-02 9:36 AM slacy09 - 2015-10-02 8:54 AM A fence ....why would you not have them secured in a fence? That is what I am asking about. The type of fence people use and have found to work. I have been pushing for a fence since February when all my dogs were still alive, but have still not gotten one. Now, I would like opinions on the type of fence people recommend so that I can get one.
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Location: WV | Chain should work ok or wood panel fencing would be good also. |
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Location: Oregon | I have the non climb horse fence around the perimeter of my my place and three rail along the roads, driveway and around the house. Although I live on a dead end, a family moved in past me that are HORRIBLE neighbors and fly by my house so what used to be just a long driveway for the other two families that live on this road has become a 'real' road. We attached the welded wire that looks just like the non climb on the three rail because it looks nice (matches the more expensive non climb) and was WAY WAY cheaper. Now the entire property is completely fenced - nothing can get in, nothing can get out. Love it and my animals are safe now from the road. |
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Location: MD | my boyfriend swears by the invisible fence. His lab (that died last year) was NUTS for anything chaseable. She was also a little dramatic every time she got near it she looked like a reining horse! Of course as she became accustomed to it you turned it off and she wouldn't stray much past it, he left up those wooden sticks to give her a visual. They lived on a very busy street with lots of kids, people, cars, and woodland creatures giving her plenty of opportunity, but she figured it out fast!
We don't use it here because we are about 1/2 mile off the road and my dog doesn't wander much |
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Location: Missouri | Thank you everyone for the replies!! |
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Location: Never in one place long | We live on a busy road also and people drive very fast, most of our 10 acres is fenced but on part of one side and the front (road side). We put in an underground fence and taught the dogs they can't cross it. It works amazing and dogs won't go near the road... the only problem I have is i get a new foster dog from the animal shelter every week or so then have to spend a lot of time training them on it before I can let them loose.... So this fall, we're putting up a physical fence in the places we don't have one AND leaving the underground fence on so it's like a double fence! If they get close to the physical fence to try and dig or whatever, they'd get shocked so will stay well away from it. I figure it'll be a pretty safe fence and we can even leave our dogs loose in it during the day also. |
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Location: Never in one place long | mlh0972 - 2015-10-02 9:49 AM
Bibliafarm - 2015-10-02 9:40 AM
 if your out of city get the wire fence , if your in neighborhood get chainlink or privacy.. we as owners have to do this to protect our animals.. we cant blame anyone (drivers, cars , people) if we arent being responsible ourselves.
I do not blame anyone but myself for what has happened, trust me this is eating me alive that I have not gotten a fence sooner. But what I would really appreciate is the type and kind of fences people recommend. I understand everyone is very quick to judge on why my dogs have not been in a fence sooner, and like I said I take for responsibility for the loss of life, as it is not fair to them that my lack of effort resorts in their death. Any recommendations on fence models and what works great would be kindly appreciated.
I understand why you haven't gotten a fence yet... I've been begging my husband to help me get one up for years! he just now agreed to it! We have an underground that works well but not for new dogs constantly coming in. Luckily, ours dogs have been safe this far and I've fostered about 50 Foster dogs and have been able to keep them all safe but it sure does make me nervous. |
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Location: Texas | 6ft picket fence all the way around, if they try to get out of that... hot wire. We had 2 acres fenced as a back yard. I have a Doberman and a Boxer that everyone thinks is a pit because he is brindle? If they wandered up to someone's house I couldn't say that they wouldn't have gotten shot just because of how they look alone. Although the Boxer never roams and is the type that will sit at the door waiting for me if I go inside without him. I could take him to anyone's house and leave him outside and he would sit at the door waiting. The Doberman, ha not a chance she would stick around. She would be chasing birds, cats, squirrels... imaginary things lol.
We had obnoxious neighbor kids. My dogs were going nuts one day so I went out to see what was going on. These kids were in my front yard, throwing sticks and rocks at my dogs in the back yard. They were trying to poke them with sticks through the chainlink too. The oldest of these kids was probably 9 and the youngest was a toddler. Where their parents were I had no clue. So I told them to get their butts off my property and that the Doberman could jump the fence if she wanted to so they better thank their lucky stars they hadn't made her that mad yet. I wasn't kidding. It was like a 4ft fence and she had cleared it a few times. They had my dogs so mad they were chewing on the fence and fighting each other. I will never have another fence that isn't solid. Even though the kids were at fault, if they had gotten bit it would have been my dogs that paid the price.
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Location: Wisconsin | We installed SportDog Underground fence. We have had it probably 5 years now with no problems. We have bird dogs and they will not cross it, even if chasing a squirrel they stop. If you make sure and due the training the manual explains they are worth every penny. I think it cost us $200 at Gander Mountain, and we bought extra wire, and fenced about 4 acres. Wouldn't own another property without it installed. |
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Location: Carpenter, WY | What kind of dogs do you have?
My two fat bassets and the corgi only have a 4' ruff cut lumber slab fence and it's perfect for them.
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Location: In my own world | pinx05 - 2015-10-08 10:28 AM
 6ft picket fence all the way around, if they try to get out of that... hot wire. We had 2 acres fenced as a back yard. I have a Doberman and a Boxer that everyone thinks is a pit because he is brindle? If they wandered up to someone's house I couldn't say that they wouldn't have gotten shot just because of how they look alone. Although the Boxer never roams and is the type that will sit at the door waiting for me if I go inside without him. I could take him to anyone's house and leave him outside and he would sit at the door waiting. The Doberman, ha not a chance she would stick around. She would be chasing birds, cats, squirrels... imaginary things lol.
We had obnoxious neighbor kids. My dogs were going nuts one day so I went out to see what was going on. These kids were in my front yard, throwing sticks and rocks at my dogs in the back yard. They were trying to poke them with sticks through the chainlink too. The oldest of these kids was probably 9 and the youngest was a toddler. Where their parents were I had no clue. So I told them to get their butts off my property and that the Doberman could jump the fence if she wanted to so they better thank their lucky stars they hadn't made her that mad yet. I wasn't kidding. It was like a 4ft fence and she had cleared it a few times. They had my dogs so mad they were chewing on the fence and fighting each other. I will never have another fence that isn't solid. Even though the kids were at fault, if they had gotten bit it would have been my dogs that paid the price.
There is my OT 2 cents lol.
Not to get off track lol but your Dobe sounds like mine. I've had 2 and the first was just a gem. Never ran off. She would follow me to the end of the drive and I would say "stay" she would lay down and I would go on a trail ride. Come back an hour later she was still there. My current one is a goof. Each morning you let her out she runs across the yard full tilt barking her head off at absolutely NOTHING!! Oh and she thinks she is a hunting dog too. Which she stinks at!! |
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