[jane032657]

Originally Posted by senior citizen

I hate to tell you, but some dogs are brazen enough to push through an invisible fence........our neighbor, who are dear friends, is blind to the fact that her aging pooch likes to growl and knock over and bite folks.

"It" ran through the invisible fence on its own property, ran across our very very expansive front lawn and bit my husband's backside, through his pants, when he was getting our mail at the roadside mailbox.

When told, she said, "Oh?"

When they had three black dobermans (this one is a mutt), they would "unite" and growl , baring their teeth, at anyone who approached the home.

We have relatives also, whose dogs knock over people, elderly people, and couldn't care less. They also aren't afraid of the invisible fence.

Go figure. Stay safe. Don't make the dogs your enemies. We were walking up in our foothills once and a nice lady with her very nice teenaged daughter approached with their big black german shepherd pooch who took a dislike to my husband and again, bared his teeth and growled........it was scary, to say the least..........the women just said, "Oh he never does that"...........the dog appeared vicious.

We've had our share of dogs and cats while raising our kids, but tried to take the dogs to "class".......not too easy to train Irish Setters........
but some of our own family treat the pooches more like innocent children who don't need any boundaries........sad to say. GOOD LUCK.

I have Setters too! An Irish and an English. Again, we chose to not buy a designer or premier home because we believed our dogs would not be swayed by an invisible fence and did not want our neighbors or ourselves to be miserable. If you have dogs you have to know their personalities and behaviors, and while ours are as gentle as Setters should be, they are also brazen and spunky and would have been doing meet and greets all over the neighborhood with invisible fencing. Setters are a challenge to train though I know others do it. The real challenge is in training the owners. So we have our villa with the fenced yard. Everyone will be happy! It is sad when people have no regard for their neighbors. I thnk the comments in this thread about keeping peace with neighbors falls more to the neighbor who is disrupting his other neighbors, not the other way around, though I am always for keeping peace. But when you have made such an investment in your property and home with the understanding their are restrictions on yourself and others, I think Happinow has good reason to be upset when there is blatant disregard for the neighbors who are conforming to the rules.