48C-MAN, most modern "high impedance" fencers put out upwards of 6,000V, some as high as 15,000 or more. The insulation rating on house wire (regardless of whether it's NM, UF, or THHN) is 600V. Will it withstand more? Some. For a short period of time in good dry conditions. Underground? For more than a day or two? NM? Not a chance. UF? maybe for a short while.
I know for fact that 12THHN woven through a cattle panel to reach a hot wire at the other end, I can see small sparks at night every point the wire crossed the steel panel, and even after running the wire through an old hunk of garden hose, could still feel a small shock in the panel. This with a 2 joule Zareba charger throwing about 7kv. The Parmak 6 joule in the big barn easily does 15K on a dry but weed covered fence; about 9K after a rain. That level of voltage will leak and form carbon tracks through 'house wire' insulation that gets worse fast when exposed to moisture.
In short, can it be done? Yes. Is it a good idea? Not if you don't want to do it have to do it right later, after rounding up critters that figured out that the fence ain't that hot anymore.
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