Portable Wireless Fence For Dogs

[seboggs05]

We've been RVing for 3 years and our 3 Brussels Griffon dogs come along on each and every trip. For our first few trips we spent most of our time untangling leashes until we stumbled upon a portable wireless fence!!! Pet Safe makes a portable and adjustable wireless fence that works great for the RV: Pet Safe Portable Wireless Fence

The system takes less than 5 minutes to set up and our dogs are soon happily lounging in our campsite. We, of course, inform the camp hosts of our wireless fence and ask for their permission to use it instead of keeping the dogs on leads. Once we get to our site, we also tell all of our neighbors that the dogs are on a wireless fence so no one can misinterpret why are dogs are not on leashes.

At every campground (even up the Alcan highway) dog owners meander to our site once they hear we have a wireless fence to "check it out" and ask questions on ease of use, replacement parts, how to adjust the range, etc.

We have probably sent more than 100 dog owners to the nearest pet store to get a wireless fence for their RVs! We will continue to spread the word about this great product that unquestionably improves our furry family's RVing experience.

[jmonroe]

Problem is, there is no wireless fence, short of one that will give a fatal shock, that will stop a terrier focused on some rabbit, squirrel, chipmunk, ... All senses seem to be completely over ridden by the instinct to hunt!

[Abdulandhazel]

Thanks for sharing this information ?

[trishw]

Sadly a wireless fence may not keep a determined dog "in" and it sure won't keep any dogs out. Id never use one with my dogs at home or RV.

[CarlAda]

While the merits of a wireless fence are many, I have to chuckle when I recall trying to retain my English Bulldogs inside a wireless fence. They quickly learned about the barriers, the beep warning, and the perimeter they could range, but my male soon discovered that the thick neck his breed is known for would also give him protection from the quick shock he got as he ran through the field of protection. He would race through it, then turn and look at me with that "now what?" look on his face. The female, being a bit smaller, stayed within the boundaries.

[RodgerS]

I would bet that effectiveness varies.

My understanding, from information provided by Leersburg, is theoretical. Dogs vary in how they react to negative stimuli and corrections.

Basically dogs have a temperament and a prey drive. Training and corrections vary dog to dog. Some dogs become very hard to deal with, for example, if a negative correction is applied.

I have a Boxer with a firm temperament and a strong prey drive. You can research this to learn more, but when his prey drive kicks in it takes much more effort on my part to get his attention so I can get him under control. He is seven months old now and I have trained him almost daily and when we are "outside" he is never off leash.

So, if I was considering such a fence at an RV park, it might work when he was relaxed and un-focused. If an animal or dog activated his prey drive, I'm guessing that most levels of shocks would be totally ignored by him. I'm not even sure that the higher levels of shock would work and he would simply crash through the barrier and continue onward.

I don't really know, but since I'm responsible for his behavior and I understand how strong his prey drive can be having raised him since 2 months old, I would not be pleased to take the risk of losing my dog or letting him get into trouble, which would include another dog breaking through the barrier. I do have a Marco Polo monitoring system I can use to radar locate him, but that is basically an emergency backup if he escaped confinement.

Having said all this, my dog is not aggressive, but he is over 50 pounds and I don't want him to have access to situations where he is without me or not on a leash.

When we are outside, I take full responsibility for protecting him from incompetent owners and out of control dogs.

Rodger