Originally Posted by Wiley Coyote
Originally Posted by tmhrmh
We used the petsafe wireless collar system and it worked great for our lab. It took him about a day to figure out where the boundaries were. I actually put the unit for sale on marketplace last week. the collar is missing but one can be purchased at walmart.

I have this system for my 4 dogs and it works well except for the rare occasion when one of my male dogs sees a much disliked neighbor dog in it's own yard, across the blacktop and inside a chain link fence. He hates that dog and runs through the shock from the collar without a thought. That's about 3 times a year and that's on the dog, not the system. One thing of note is that spare collars are a big help. I have 3 replaceable battery collars and 4 rechargeable units. This way I can keep a collar on each dog while recharging the other collar.

This^^^. If your dog is big, stubborn and hard headed, and wants to go visit the neighbors dogs or chase a deer or squirrel he sees outside the fence, all the elec fence is going to do is notify you when he comes and goes. A yelp when he leaves, and a yelp when he comes back home. I think it would work very well on smaller, more timid or fairly submissive dogs, but if you've got an alpha male for a pup, it's not going to stop him if he really wants to go investigate or chase something. It's nothing more than a "nip" when he goes through and a "nip" when he comes back. Not a real deterrent for a determined dog.

Last edited by abolt300; 02/19/26 11:24 AM.