I care for a property where the owners' dogs are getting under the fence and causing trouble. Obviously, the simple, safer, long term answer is to get a handle on the dogs. This will never happen. This is an already built no climb fence on hilly ground. I have pulled a hot wire where they are most likely to get through. I assumed the brambly portions wouldn't need anything. Regardless, I am not certain where the dogs are getting through as they do not watch their animals close enough. We are talking about 800 feet of fence. Ideas? It is an estate, so it will have to be clean.
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dr sportster
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The only way they get the Wolves to not dig under the fence in the Wolf preserve is to have three feet of chain link buried under the soil. They only will dig next to the fence ,not start three feet out from it. In your case this sounds too costly.
Would running a couple of strands of electric fence be out of the question? Loved it as a kid when one of neighbor's blasted dogs would come by and their "antenna " would hit that wire. Man it is funny when a dog screams after getting a zap. They do remember for a pretty long time. If possible the OLD SSS?
Janicholson
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Radio invisible fence works and is cheap compared to most options. Jim
Tom in TN
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JimS,
800 feet is along distance, so, I don't have any good ideas for you. I do know that I built an electric fence on one side of one of my pastures. My Boxer dog "Molly" used to help me with anything that I was doing outside. She helped me build the fence. I got it finished and turned on the charger. She touched one of the hot wires with her nose, jumped and squealed, and ran home. She still helped me wherever I went and did whatever I did, but she never one time after that went with me back to that particular pasture.
I'm surprised the dogs you're dealing with haven't learned their lesson from that one strand of hot wire that you have. Is it possible that the ground is so hard and dry that they are not getting a good ground through their feet? You might try running a ground wire around the whole area that is about 3 inches above or below the hot wire.
Good luck. Keeping animals contained is a difficult, almost full-time challenge.
Tom in TN
800 feet is along distance, so, I don't have any good ideas for you. I do know that I built an electric fence on one side of one of my pastures. My Boxer dog "Molly" used to help me with anything that I was doing outside. She helped me build the fence. I got it finished and turned on the charger. She touched one of the hot wires with her nose, jumped and squealed, and ran home. She still helped me wherever I went and did whatever I did, but she never one time after that went with me back to that particular pasture.
I'm surprised the dogs you're dealing with haven't learned their lesson from that one strand of hot wire that you have. Is it possible that the ground is so hard and dry that they are not getting a good ground through their feet? You might try running a ground wire around the whole area that is about 3 inches above or below the hot wire.
Good luck. Keeping animals contained is a difficult, almost full-time challenge.
Tom in TN
johndeere720GA
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This sounds like the perfect scenario for the "invisible dog fence". One of the problems with the invisible fence is that if a dog gets a running start he can often "power through" the shock zone and be out of the containment area.
In this case you have a barrier that the dog must negotiate to get out and if he was getting shocked the whole time he was trying to "get through" I bet he would stop that nonsense pretty quickly.
In this case you have a barrier that the dog must negotiate to get out and if he was getting shocked the whole time he was trying to "get through" I bet he would stop that nonsense pretty quickly.
notjustair
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They make a "pet" strength fence charger that provides less juice - like if a kid touched it. It still gives a zap. Dogs are smart cookies - once they get zapped it would be rare to see them test it again.
My dogs jumped out of the gator to get a rabbit in one pasture. All three got bitten by the cattle hot wire. None of them will get out of that gator in that pasture unless I walk with them from the gator to the pond to swim. If I walk away they will get out of the pond but not go back to the machine without me walking them.
The battery must have been fresh that day!
My dogs jumped out of the gator to get a rabbit in one pasture. All three got bitten by the cattle hot wire. None of them will get out of that gator in that pasture unless I walk with them from the gator to the pond to swim. If I walk away they will get out of the pond but not go back to the machine without me walking them.
The battery must have been fresh that day!
+1 on this. See also the wolf area below, they did the same. Chain link stopped our dig-outs cold. And it can be cheap, as you don't need pristine fence for it to work. Call some fence companies, ask them to call you when they replace some old rusty chain link for someone. Another good thing about chain link is that in many cases it doesn't need to be buried, grass grows right up through it, and it lays flat easily, so no catching on mower decks.
Texasmark1
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+2 on this.
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