How to Keep Your Dog Safe With a Wireless Pet Fence

By Brenda Minica

It is very important to train pet dogs effectively and this training should start from when the dog is as young as five or six months old. If one does not have enough time to devote daily to training his own dog, it is a god idea to hire a personal trainer to do the work. However, monitoring the dog's movement continuously through the house can only be done by the family living with it.

The wireless pet fence, first known of in the 1970's, is a device created to monitor the dog's movements throughout the house, while trying to teach him which areas are allowed for it to roam in and which is out of bounds.

A wireless pet fence consists of a transmitter placed at a convenient central point of the house and a lightweight electronic dog collar placed around the dog's neck. Once the transmitter is switched on, it sends radio waves into the air to monitor the dog's movement. The collar is waterproof and comes with a receiver containing a battery that needs to be attached to it so that the transmitter can detect it through the radio waves. Once the dog is wearing the collar which has been set at the required frequency, the transmitter checks its movement. If the dog comes too close to the invisible boundary set by the particular frequency, first a warning beeper goes off, and if it is too close to the boundary a trigger in the form of a mild shock is sent to the dog. This makes the dog realize he is approaching restricted areas.

In the beginning, along with the wireless pet fence set up visual boundaries in the form of colored flags should also be placed. This helps the dog associate the restricted areas with the flagged boundary. After wearing the electronic collar and being monitored by the beeps and shocks pets automatically recognize which areas are allowed from them, and which are not. Also, the owner should associate the boundary with an invisible gate for the dog. For example, every time the dog crosses the front gate, his owner should take the collar off so that the transmitter cannot detect its movement. Again, when the dog returns home and crosses the gate, the collar is put on. But at any other time if it tries to cross the front gate, the collar will beep and send shockwaves restricting its movements immediately. Soon it will realize that the gate is open when the collar is off and vice versa.

Wireless pet fences are preferred to ordinary wooden or metal fences because of their "invisibility" factor. The shocks are surprising yet harmless for the animal. After a few months of continuous training with it, the dog doesn't even go beyond the warning beep. In this way the owner can train the dog for his pooping and peeing activities, eating, sleeping and even playing areas without disturbing the neighbors or ruining the furniture.

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