Posted on 07/22/2024 5:17:26 AM PDT by knarf
I have a full grown, 80 lb. Black Lab and 3 odd shaped acres.
He's stud, rambunctious and a handful for my 100 lb. wife.
I've seen an ad about a GPS system and research shows me they're not new and with a number of variable features.
If anyone has any pragmatic information, I'd like it.
I have the Fi dog tracker. It’s gps but no shock. It worked great for me. We moved to a much smaller farm so my dog wasn’t used to being restricted to run. We have only 20 acres now. It works with an app on your phone. You can pit a perimeter around your property and it alerts you when the dog goes beyond. It pretty accurate. My dog has excellent recall also so that helps. As soon as I was alerted I would whistle and she came right back. Take a little bit for them to learn the boundaries but was well worth it.
Ask oblama... oh no, wait, he eats dogs.
This happened in Russia. There was nothing the dog could do. I assume it would be similar with geofencing.
Works well. My wife tried one out. The collar gave quite an attention getting jolt the first time… but now I rarely escape the perimeter.
We had two beagle pups. Same thing...inground system. If these guys saw a squirrel two doors down, they’d rocket thru the “force field” and keep going like nothing happened.
Takes weeks to starve. Sounds like an urban legend.
Saw it on the news years ago. It was gone for about two weeks and they found it’s body having starved.
I used to laugh at the Brittany ... he’d run on through & always give a “yelp” as he got shocked, but never slowed down. The Chesapeake Bay Retriever “Romeo” did the same thing ... steeled himself, gave a yelp as he went through & was off and gallivanting.
The CB ended up getting in trouble - got in a fight with a Doberman at a horse farm down the road on one of his gallivants ... one of the horses in the barn (expensive show horse) got upset & hurt himself banging around the stall. The dog’s owner was told he would be getting the vet bills & if the horse could not compete any more, he’d get a very large bill for the value of the horse. This was finally the event that convinced him to have the dog neutered, which resulted in a quieter, calmer, non-Romeo sort of dog.
Did she set the perimeter at your bedroom door? No more “Not tonight, dear. I have a headache.”
You should be good
Some dogs like American bulldogs and Dogos are unfazed by jolts
Years back a friend set one up to stop his dog from running and jumping on to the boats in the marina he owned. He set it up then let the dog loose. The dog ran right off the dock into the water and they never saw the dog again
My sisters lab used to stand back, get a running start and fly through the barrier. You would hear a yelp as he went through and then he was off on one of his treks.
I tried one of these with my 50 lb lab mix. It was the Halo collar.
It’s big, and heavy, and needs to be charged each night.
The contacts irritated my dog’s skin. She has very thin fur on her throat.
I sent it back after the first week.
Note: The are “smart” collars. They will shock the dog when it leaves the yard, but immediately stop as soon as the dog starts heading back to the yard. They aren’t like the older “dumb” collars that shock when the dog crosses a perimeter, regardless of direction travelled.
I have the SpotOn collar for our Gordon Setter. It works very well. He will stray the boundary at times, but turns right back. Unlike buried wire systems, it does not shock the dog coming back. The boundary goes into a wooded area; the tracking feature lets me know where he his. It also has a call back feature, I don’t use that very often.
Its battery life could be better. I lasts about 14 hours. I usually put the collar back on the charger around midday when the dog is inside.
I also considered the Halo collar. I don’t recall why I chose one over the other.
I have one for my Mountain Cur. Its a Wiez programable collar. It uses gps and you can set small to larger perimeters.
It vibrates, then beeps then shocks. It has different strengths you can set.
I put out visual flags for the perimeter while I trained her. The little flags they use for construction work well. I showed her that when the collar vibrates or beeps, it means go back.
She’s a very smart girl and learned quickly. Now when I put her collar on she just stands at my side with her head down. She doesn’t see the purpose of being outside if she can’t run off where she wants. :)
Poor Romeo, lol.
The beagles became too much for us and we passed them on to a relative on the wife’s side of the family (an uncle). He had a farm down in SC. The little guys had long and happy lives running around down there. Both gone now. Always felt bad about that, but we did them right by “transferring” ownership.
The Brittany died in his sleep from old age. My SIL got a Collie.... wonderful dog. My brother said he’s never had a non-hunting dog before. She doesn’t roam, follows my SIL around, lies down nearby if she’s reading, gardening, etc. No worries with the chickens (the Brittany was a major chicken killer if he could get to them). The Collie has a big bark & she sounds off when people come to the door so she’s a good deterrent. Beautiful, but LOTS of hair!
So glad you found a home for the beagles where they can do what they love to do.
I had an invisible fence installed. My dog would go up to perimeter, squint his eyes, hunker down, and push through the shock. He knew what was coming and figured it was worth it.
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