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This was not as sophisticated as these gps ones, but pretty convenient if you have an American style yard. Simply bury a wire around the perimeter of the area you want the dog to have free access too, and the collar must have known how close it was because of the strength of the small radio signal coming from the wire, or something like that. You could adjust the distance from the wire that the collar would start beeping (I'm guessing it was just increasing the power being fed to the wire). If the dog got too close it would get a shock, but you could also switch it to only beep once the dog knew to obey the beep.
We felt bad about the shocking, but the traditional dog run meant the dog was almost strangling herself regularly when wrapped around trees.
There was a day when we put the range up too high, without realizing and the poor dog was hugging the side of the house to go pee because extra steps away from it would cause her collar to beep. (She got extra treats and love that day and many apologies)
We didn't even use the collar for the last half of her life, as the boundary was just engrained and she no longer had puppy walkabout habits.
Another interesting quirk of the technology was the need to have an imaginary gate where she could be trained to know it was safe to walk through with one of us (& her collar off) to take her out for daily walks (to areas where we could let her run free and boy did she run), vet appointments, etc. |
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Mistress Rose
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