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Originally Posted by dbussone
Yes. What we were told to do is determine a good spot to walk your dog out of the yard and use that spot every time. As you approach the spot, but before your dog comes into contact with the antenna signal, remove the collar. That way the dog is supposed to associate associate removal of the collar with safely leaving the yard.
In practice some dogs reject going across that perceived barrier even with their collar off. Thankfully our pet is under 20 pounds so we just pick him up and carry him across when he refuses.
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Our first golden was one such dog. He never did get the "magic door" part of the training.
The e-fence worked very well with him, though. He often chased something up through the woods behind our house. It was an escaped farm turkey that harassed our MI neighborhood for an entire year. Both the dog and the turkey knew exactly where the fence line was.