Pampered Dog Blog

No one can blame a dog owner for wanting to keep his pet at home, at all time, especially when the dog tends to run off and expose itself to harm. If you have a yard and a lawn, or some running space, your dog would enjoy some play time there with you. But if you live in an area with zoning or fence-installation restrictions, you might not be able to install a physical fence, the kind installed to keep cattle in. There’s probably a way to let your dog roam free while not fencing it in.

You can, with an invisible fence for dogs. The invisible fence is similar to behavioral deterrent provided by a physical fence – it can prevent your dog from getting out of a designated area. What “fences” your dog in not anything physical, which he can claw on and probably scale. Instead, it’s his learned responses. If you’re familiar with bark collars, or electronic collars that release a static correction when the dog barks, the workings of an invisible fence is the same. Similarly, when your dog nears a boundary you’ve marked, it hears a tone that, when he continues to move past the line, sends out a static correction.

An invisible fence is one of many pet containments systems; it’s quite easy to install, just a length of wires to be buried around a designated area. Your dog should wear, while inside the perimeter, a special collar. That collar is designed to emit a warning tone and afterwards a static correction. That’s a concise picture explaining how your dog can be kept inside your property without the feeling of being fenced in. The fence is invisible to you, to passers by, and to other dogs who do not wear the special collar. But your pet can be trained to remain on your property – physical fences absent. Your dog can still run around your home, and stay there, without your having to manually install physical posts (or hire labor to do it for you).

There is a variant of the invisible fence – same principle, different method; instead of wires marking the area, radio signals from a central source “sweeps” the area and can tell if your dog is within or leaving the area. Your dog also wears a special collar, and through that it will receive the same warning tone and subsequent shock.

You won’t have a difficult time installing the invisible fence – neither will you need to hire expertise to dig up your property for the installation. You only need to decide the outer lines making up the perimeter your dog will stay in.

You will need to spend some time training your dog to get used to the warning tones and static correction; otherwise it might get confused and “brave” through the perimeter or refuse to out of the house at all. You might want to search about installation and dog training info on each invisible dog fence you might comes across online. If you’re lucky, the dog supply site you visit will have short, educational videos on both fence installation and dog training.