| Oct 4 Written by:aajoanne
Saturday, October 04, 2008 Thanks to member Labdp for her contributions to our blog!  We began invisible fence training with Sidney today. It's been on my mind for a while. Cold weather (I even hate to say that) is just down the road. Last winter we visited the frigid out doors with Pete on lead every time he needed out. We (I) decided to get a move on and train this dear boy.
The yard is flagged. And we had our first training session today. The mission - take him close enough to the boundary so he could hear the warning tone, and then retreat to the safe zone. The collar is covered so he does not get zapped, just the experience of the warning tone.
My problem though is hearing the tone when he's wearing the collar. One ought to be able to turn up the volume for trainers who are over a certain age. Heck, what if your dog was hard of hearing???
So there we were. The first session. Mind you, over the course of his stay we've walked the yard a pawzillion times, and have stayed within the boundaries of the fence area, so he has a good idea of how far he can go. So he walks up to about a foot from a flag, ever so slowly crouches into a gorgeous point position. And there I am beside him, crouched down into a amusing point of my own trying in vain to here the warning tone. All I could hear was the imagined laughter of every neighbor within the visual vicinity of my yard.
Nope, I could not hear the tone. I'm trusting he did. So we retreated with joyous words and excitement to the safe part of the yard. I've given up trying to hear the tone. Only way to do that is to put a collar on me - and that just ain't gonna happen.
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Thank you for the words of wisdom you share with the rest of us. One of my boys is a jumper and we struggle all the time. I'm afraid of all the trouble he can get into when he jumps the fence. He jumps the fence so I make it taller. Then he keeps practicing until he can jump it again! I guess I'll have to check into a fence like you have. Thanks again!!
By katseyes on
Saturday, October 04, 2008
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I install in ground fences. I agree, the tone is low to the handlers, erspeially of you aren't used to hearing it like the installers are.If your dog is retreating without hearing the tone he wont undertsand the association between tone and stimulation. hold the dog real short on the lead when approaching the flags.
By DPFrank on
Saturday, October 04, 2008
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My husband has the same problem with high pitched tones. He got a hearing aid that was very inexpensive, just Amplifies the sound. Since it sounds like you do this often, it might be worth a try.
I'd love to be a neighbor! Daily entertainment at your house..lol
By patandtheboys on
Saturday, October 04, 2008
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When we were ready to move into our new home,there was an invisible fence already installed.
We had a chain link put in anyway.
The invisible fence is fine foe keeping our dog in,but it doesn't keep other dogs out.
I want my dog to be safe in our yard.
By jogaym on
Saturday, October 04, 2008
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jogaym makes a good point about keeping other dogs out. I have 3 very tiny dogs & they would be a good "snack" for a big dog.
By my3poodles on
Monday, October 06, 2008
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My vet told me he had heard of a lot of cases where dogs had gotten excited and gone after a dog, a cat, a squirrel, whatever and then, once they're on the wrong side they get punished for coming back to their yard. On the other hand my brother has a very high energy Lab and he says it works great for her. I used to have a Siberian (the Houdini wanderers of the dog world) and I put in 6 ft of chain link; she dug out. I put in landscaping timbers on the fence line and she pushed up the bottom of the fence. I had wire cable run through the bottom with hog rings on the posts, so she climbed the fence. Finally I got a very low intensity wire used to keep rabbits out of vegtable gardens and ran that inside the chain link. It worked!!! Cost me a fortune for all that experimenting, but it was worth it.
By dgcthrgt on
Monday, October 06, 2008
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I've heard cases where the dog was getting zapped (shocked) and the owner was not looking at the dog's neck and the dog ended up dying from infection from the BURNING AROUND ITS NECK BECAUSE OF THE SHOCKING............
I would never use an invisible fence.............my yard is fenced the old fashioned way..............a regular 6 foot fence....and I have a doggy door to my house so my dogs are in the house and not locked outside........
Dogs get lonley if locked outside...........I can never figure out why people get a dog and throw it outside and leave it all alone.......or worse chain it up to a doghouse...........yikes..........
By shar on
Monday, October 06, 2008
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I absolutley recommend an invisible fence. Mine is the one that has no underground wires, just the transmitter box that is portable. My older dog was the first one trained on it and when I got separated and moved i just took the unit and collar and retrained her to boundaries. Did the same when I got my Dobe rescue. I also have trained them with the words, BACK, and YOU'RE TOO FAR. However, i also do not leave my dogs out when i am not around, they are in the house.
By Dobeluvr on
Saturday, October 11, 2008
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Friday, October 24, 2008
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