Invisible Fence for a dog. GPS based

[Donald]

I have been looking on Amazon and other places for an Invisible Dog fence for my yard. One that is GPS dog collar based. Most seen to be for a round yard. My yard is a rectangle not round. Few people have a round yard. A few are designed to a rectangular yard. Some close to $1000.

One from PawTronic is in the $300 to $400 range and handles a 1 acre rectangular lawn.

The other issues would be reliability, false alerts. Will only have the collar on beep or vibrate. No shocking. I will be outside with dog always. Mainly to satisfy crazy HOA rule.

 

[cammyfive79]

While not an invisible fence concept, we have Fi Collars for our 3....you can set up a geo-zone and get alerted if they leave that area; also tracks steps, gps location, etc.

 

[Donald]

I need to deal with a crazy neighbor who will go ballistic if my dog takes one step in his yard.

 

[mk378]

GPS isn't precise enough for when one step out of a suburban yard makes a difference. It's good for large areas like hunting and farms.

 

[RhondaHonda]

I have a remote collar that shocks/vibrates/beeps from Amazon for like $20. It’s rechargeable and works great. You just hit the button, no fence or GPS. I think it has 1,000 foot range or so.

 

[Nukeman7]

I need to deal with a crazy neighbor who will go ballistic if my dog takes one step in his yard.

If you are referring to this previous BITOG post, you need a leash or a physical fence, not a GPS/invisible fence. It takes months of repeated dog training/behavior reinforcement conditioning for an invisible fence to work. Even then, it is not 100% reliable. My good friend had his dog trained for the past 11 years. However, last month, the dog got past the perimeter of the invisible fence and wandered a mile away where it was struck by a car. She survived, but tragically, is permanently paralyzed.

 

[walterjay]

GPS invisible fence is not reliable. I had one and had to return it.

 

[AZjeff]

A quicky search shows the accuracy of the "fence" can vary. With your situation I'd want to see a solid margin of error number on the accuracy of the line. The buried wire fences work quite well the fence is exactly defined and BTW you can vary the intensity of the nip, you don't have to put the dog writhing on the ground. A beep or vibration isn't going to deter a dog from checking out an interesting smell unless there was an unpleasant event associated with the beep/vibe during training. Since you'll always be with the dog and don't want to put him on leash rock solid no BS obedience training doesn't need beeps and vibes. One or two commands that the dog obeys immediately on the first command is all you need but it takes work.

 

[Donald]

So the HOA requires an invisible fence or real fence if you want to walk your dog in your back yard without a leash. Seems a bit crazy to me.

It does not say I need an accurate invisible fence. I plan to walk my dog in my back yard and for the most part she follows me.

An accurate one would be great and I am willing to pay $350 for one that handles a rectangular yard (vs circle). But if the $350 one will not be accurate then I will go for a $75 one that just does a circle and can then say I have met the HOA requirements.

 

[thastinger]

So the HOA requires an invisible fence or real fence if you want to walk your dog in your back yard without a leash. Seems a bit crazy to me.

It does not say I need an accurate invisible fence. I plan to walk my dog in my back yard and for the most part she follows me.

An accurate one would be great and I am willing to pay $350 for one that handles a rectangular yard (vs circle). But if the $350 one will not be accurate then I will go for a $75 one that just does a circle and can then say I have met the HOA requirements.

Good fences make good neighbors, seems your neighbor would likely split the cost of the fence with you so you don't have to see each other.

 

[drtyler]

I need to deal with a crazy neighbor who will go ballistic if my dog takes one step in his yard.

So the HOA requires an invisible fence or real fence if you want to walk your dog in your back yard without a leash. Seems a bit crazy to me.

Don’t blame the neighbor; this one is on you.

 

[Donald]

Don’t blame the neighbor; this one is on you.

I don't blame the neighbor if my dog step on their lawn. But a normal person would not go ballistic over it either.

Expecting perfection in an imperfect world comes to mind.

 

[drtyler]

I don't blame the neighbor if my dog step on their lawn. But a normal person would not go ballistic over it either.

Expecting perfection in an imperfect world comes to mind.

You know that this neighbor does not like your dog on his property, yet do nothing about it except make excuses.

Something tells me the neighbor feels you encroach on his space a lot.

Maybe the neighbor should be more tolerant of you encroaching (whether it is dog or mower or whatever), but he isn’t. Nothing will change it.

 

[mk378]

The neighbor doesn't owe you anything. One of the reasons to buy property is that it will be a space free of other people's dogs. This is true whether there is a HOA or not.

 

[Speedbird001]

I would not do it. I have known several people with this kind of thing, none of them were happy or really kept them for long.

I'll share one downside experience. My neighbor down the straight had a ~40 pound lab mix. When he saw something he really wanted to chase (Like a squirrel) he just blew thru it like it wasn't even there.

Biggest downside, it does not keep your dogs safe from other stuff.