Electric (wireless) dog fence - effective?

darrenheaphy

Hello. We're in a fairly rural location, 1 acre garden. Our dog (a cross between a poodle and a red setter, eternally happy and hyper) jumps off our boundary wall and chases every tractor and car. Sometimes she jumps in font of them. We think we might need a wireless dog fence thing, it seems impractical to bury a boundary fence which triggers a shock given the lengths and distances. So thinking a wireless one. Besides the problem that the virtual boundary is circular, are these methods generally effective or do dogs learn to ignore them? Curious as to what people think or what their experience has been?

darrenheaphy

darrenheaphy wrote: »

Hello. We're in a fairly rural location, 1 acre garden. Our dog (a cross between a poodle and a red setter, eternally happy and hyper) jumps off our boundary wall and chases every tractor and car. Sometimes she jumps in font of them. We think we might need a wireless dog fence thing, it seems impractical to bury a boundary fence which triggers a shock given the lengths and distances. So thinking a wireless one. Besides the problem that the virtual boundary is circular, are these methods generally effective or do dogs learn to ignore them? Curious as to what people think or what their experience has been?

Dogs learn to ignore them. A friend's dog would ignore it if she was particularly bored and felt like a wander.
A dog like yours, that really wants to get at something (tractors and cars) will almost definitely ignore it.
The pounds are full of dogs wearing those collars.

Cherry Blossom

My neighbour has a wireless fence. In four years he's had two dogs killed on the road and two shot by sheep farmers. So no, not effective.

kylith

Judging by the amount of dogs in pounds with shock collars; no.

Judging by anecdotal reports of dogs getting shocks and then being afraid of their own garden; also cruel.

Graces7

OP I had a collie who acted like yours. One day I caught her playing Russian roulette with the school bus.

Thus far and no further.

Only thing that worked was to wire off a part of the garden so she could not get to the road. Just wire netting.

AryaStark

I would also suggest fencing off part of the garden if you can. We have a very big garden that is too big to have a border fence (it would cost a fortune) so I have sectioned of part of it where our dogs can be out of the house and still safe. They also get to play in the rest of the garden but only supervised.

My Mam had the electric colars for her two dogs years ago but we got rid of them as they did not work. Our female would get as close as possible to the wire and run down the battery, and then she would be off. Our male would run out and then be afraid to come back in. They were a disaster.

darrenheaphy

Thank you all for the feedback, a normal fence it is! We'll section off the parts (corners) she exits from and see if that works