The modern type of dog containment systems are not so appealing, it seems, to some dog owners. In particular, the invisible pet fences. These pet owners seem fixated at the traditional style of dog containment systems, which is essentially a physical fence. In this short article, we go cover this concept and afterwards we explore the advantages and disadvantage of traditional fences. A short coverage of the modern pet fence will also be included.
If there’s one thing a dog containment system should do, it’s that it should keep your pet safe.
Any set up that aims to keep your dog inside a marked perimeter, regardless of success rate, is a dog containment system. Such a fencing set up is supposed to prevent your dog from getting dog-napped, running away, getting run over by vehicles, or getting lost. It’s supposed to save the pet owner a ton of money by keeping the dog in once place – your property.
How cattle and maybe dogs can be kept safe inside a traditional fence
The old physical fences is just a series of single posts buried around an area is a simply dog containment system. It’s also the same kind of fence used to contain cattle, which are not as tenacious and curious as dogs.
The costs of traditional pet fences – labor, materials, time, harm to the pet
For communities that have large tracks of land, where there no zoning rules, perhaps such a fencepost-dependent dog containment system may work without troubles – at least as far as setting one up is concerned. Traditional fences have lots of problems, first of all costs – in terms of materials and manual labor, unless you do all the sawing and pounding yourself. If we were all carpentry hobbyists or handymen by profession, such fiddling about and hammering and sawing may be acceptable.
What if you only rent your property, then you may not be allowed to do physical alterations, such as a dug up landscape and posts buried in series. Still, even if you owned the property, you may still be prohibited by zoning rules from doing the same.
Imagine, for example, that you did set up a physical fence post – the traditional one, one originally intended to keep cattle safe – will your dog always stay inside as meek as sheep? If there are escapee animals, then dogs would be one – they are known to chew their way out, despite injury to their gums. They could also dig under the fence, like a prisoner, and squeeze under, never mind if their get injured and later be exposed to secondary infections.
So a pet owner may come home only to find out the latest in a series of daring escapes. You will always be making a mental list of what’s broken, how much will it take to repair it, and how badly is your dog wounded itself in its escape attempt this time. Also, keep in mind some dogs can jump as high as six feet.
