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Old 10-23-2015, 11:44 PM
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We used Dogwatch from Ocala for our invisible fencing. Evan, from Dogwatch, was just great at helping us with the training. Please be sure to always supervise your dog, because even with invisible fencing, predators can come on your property. We use invisible fencing in our back yard only.

The critical thing about invisible fencing is to do the training. Even if it doesn't makes sense to you, it makes sense to the dogs. They learn the boundaries marked by the flags, and then they connect the boundary lines with the warning signal. We turned the system to the lowest level so a correction would be a surprise tingle, not a shock. I tried the collar on my arm before purchasing the system from Dogwatch. Our dogs required only one correction each, and thereafter avoided the boundaries when they heard the beep warning.

And here is (to me) an amazing thing .... After being away for six months, I let the dogs out in the yard because I didn't realize that Fireboy hadn't activated the system yet. And both dogs totally avoided the boundaries, even without warning beeps! Not that I'm recommending that ... it was stupid on my part. But it just shows how they memorize the boundaries and avoid them.
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