Pet Fencing – Problems With Installing Wooden Fences
If you own pets, you’re probably immediately worry if they don’t come home when you expect them to. Dogs, for one, may wander too far off from where their owners live. They might go about inspecting trash bins, running after cars, and wander off to far to come home. One way to keep them fenced in is via installed traditional wooden fences. Still, this kind of pet fencing has its own set backs.
They might not be high enough to deter your dog from climbing over. That fence and the dog’s enthusiasm or desperation could end up hurting that animal. Consider also that not many have the extra time or skill to put up the wooden fences themselves. If you decide to push on by yourself, you’ll have to do much of the materials and tools shopping yourself. After sawing each fence post, you have to use a digger tool to make sure a third of the post is buried. Even after you do those there’s no guarantee the fence would work as you imagine it to.
You could of course hire a contractor to do these yourself. But if you’re renting, your contract might not allow you to do some digging around the rented property. Some people live in areas where ordinances prevent them from building such a set up.
You don’t have to spend so much effort putting up fences for which you might get fined and which might not keep you dog inside – an electronic fence. There are several available ways in which pet fencing works for you and your pet. The kind of set up most employed makes use of wires buried around a perimeter. As with many other fencing systems of this type, it also uses a collar your dog is to wear. When your dog approached the boundaries set, usually planted with marker flags, a warning sound is emitted by the collar. Should the animal keep walking past the boundaries, it receives a mild corrective shock.
Another pet fencing set ups involves no wires around a perimeter. One uses radio signals sent from a central source “marks” the area via the radius or range of reach of the transmission. Should the dog try to escape from the perimeter, the collar also sends out a warning prior to a static correction.
Training your dog to mind the warning and heed the shocks are needed. Again, the decision is up to the dog owner and his circumstances.
