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Originally Posted by Dreamer61
Sorry, I don't think eves dropping is hard to avoid, or at the least you don't have to act on everything you hear. I would never break the restrictions and I would have run it by the committee if I'd had the chance before she called them. I've met with Dogwatch and are planning to install the invisible fence. We are very excited about our girl having some free roam. Thanks for the tip, Barefoot!
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You are so welcome. 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.
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.