I agree that if you get the shock collar, be sure to put the wires well before the fence. They can jump over, get shocked, then be confused and have trouble jumping back over the fence.
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Owyhee Jackass said:
Actually, I have had a lab. Name of Buddy. Back in the days before In-Sink-Er-Ators.
yes they work if you do the flag training!!!!
if you don't you could have a dog that will take the HIT just to get out
and won't jump back home to get another HIT
spend the extra time on the flag training!!!!
if you don't you could have a dog that will take the HIT just to get out
and won't jump back home to get another HIT
spend the extra time on the flag training!!!!
peterson said:
I have the "radio" fence with the burried wire, and training is the absolute key.
The dog needs to "know" that it is a solid wall of pain out there, not just a couple of seconds worth of pain then freedom. I had three dogs, one set on max(the Pointer) one set on the minimum and one set on "tone only", both Brittanies. None of them has gone AWOL, but how you train them is the key.
I know trainers who successfully use shock collars, and many, many more who abuse them. You need to train a dog and use the collar to correct them when they disobey a command they know. I have seen a lot of dogs ruined with a shock collar.
I love dogs. Dogs with a purpose. Working dogs. Especially, but not exclusively, hunting dogs.
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my best friends (two great cruiserhead friends that got married!) have four dogs. one rottie, one rottie/sheppard mix, one beagle/coon dog mix, and one sheppard something mix...all four dogs have learned the power of innotek...they don't like it.
i haven't been out there with my dog to visit since they installed the "fence", but they got extra collars since their yard is too big to fence and all of her (i'm the illegitimate child if anyone on her dad's side asks..at least that's how he introduced me at all the family functions...don't know if i should be insulted or not
) family has dogs that travel with them.
i haven't been out there with my dog to visit since they installed the "fence", but they got extra collars since their yard is too big to fence and all of her (i'm the illegitimate child if anyone on her dad's side asks..at least that's how he introduced me at all the family functions...don't know if i should be insulted or not
) family has dogs that travel with them.
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update-i bought a bunch of flags at the hardware store this morning and stapled them on top of the fence so it faces horizontally into the yard. i have been training my dog all day shaking the flags at him and telling him no and bad and so forth. so far, so good. he is afraid of the flags and hasn't hopped the fence. so, maybe i will only have to spend $4 vs buying the fence shocker thing. we'll see. he'll prolly find some way out of it in a few days.
Not to lecture anyone but if your Lab is jumping fences and now needs an electric fence or related device, you didn't do your job with that dog - ESPECIALLY a Lab! Yes, I can get a bit peeved at this so bear with me. My Lab can go anywhere - backyard, front yard - doesn't bolt, jump, get on furniture or go into the road. We trained her this way - rock solid. She started at 6 months old - WORK WITH YOUR DOG! Once you do this, you would NOT belive the relationship you have with this creature - loyal & unconditional love. 
IDave said:What kind of dog eats tomatos?
That's no manly kinda dog....
Labs will eat most vegetables including tomatoes, carrots, lettuce, popcorn, melon, sushi, tuna fish, chips, cookies, turkey, asparagas, etc. The No. 1 challange of walking an off-leash trained Lab is she thinks the world is her buffet - it's where we conflict the most! People don' train their dogs and they pay the price for it. Your dog becomes a trusted family member when she knows what to do - and does it!
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BOUNDER said:Not to lecture anyone but if your Lab is jumping fences and now needs an electric fence or related device, you didn't do your job with that dog - ESPECIALLY a Lab! Yes, I can get a bit peeved at this so bear with me. My Lab can go anywhere - backyard, front yard - doesn't bolt, jump, get on furniture or go into the road. We trained her this way - rock solid. She started at 6 months old - WORK WITH YOUR DOG! Once you do this, you would NOT belive the relationship you have with this creature - loyal & unconditional love.
dude-no need to get all worked up. i'll bet i have worked more with my dog than just about anybody. i get comments all the time about how well behaved my dog is. if i'm around he does EVERYTHING i tell him to do. he is hand trained and whistle trained for hunting. if i was closer i would even dare make a challenge to you to see whose dog is better trained. don't lecture me on working with my dog. he wasn't born with these skills. he learned them from at least one hour of training per day for his first year of life. he just barely turned 1. i continue to train him, but not as much. he gets plenty of exercise, so boredom and lack of physical exercise is not an issue. anyway-he just loves playing with the neigbor dog and that probably is my fault. our neigbor's dog is a black lab and is one month younger than my dog and we have let them play and spend time together since they were pups. so, it would be like taking two pups from their mom and separating them with a fence through which they can smell one another. once they are big enough, or course they are going to try and get to one another. so, don't make hasty assumptions about my dog. (Jerry Springer guest voice) "You don't know me, you don't know me".
I had this problem, just over feed him for a few months. fat dogs don't climb over fences 
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shut up jeeper. go fix your jeep.ajfriz said:
Since we're WOT anyway...
"OK." I noticed the intensity setting was set to 10 and promptly dialed it back to 1.
Boss says, "No, don't do that a**wipe. I use it on 10, not 1."
Me, "Screw you, f**kstick. Hit it!" (It was a pretty laid-back office)
Zap. I nearly went through the wall. There were about 5-6 people from the office with us, and they were all roaring with laughter which only got louder when boss told them that 10 was the lightest shock and 1 was the most powerful. Once I could move again I joined in their amusement, especially with irony so rich--him trying to warn me off of the powerful jolt and all. Damn thing must have been made in Canada...
Yeah, I have. My boss at the time brought to the office one of those shock collars that is activated by a perimeter boundary line. I wondered (aloud) if it was cruel for the dog, and he said, "No, here. Put it in your hand and I'll zap you."saint60 said:
"OK." I noticed the intensity setting was set to 10 and promptly dialed it back to 1.
Boss says, "No, don't do that a**wipe. I use it on 10, not 1."
Me, "Screw you, f**kstick. Hit it!" (It was a pretty laid-back office)
Zap. I nearly went through the wall. There were about 5-6 people from the office with us, and they were all roaring with laughter which only got louder when boss told them that 10 was the lightest shock and 1 was the most powerful. Once I could move again I joined in their amusement, especially with irony so rich--him trying to warn me off of the powerful jolt and all. Damn thing must have been made in Canada...
We had one when we had 3.5 acres. It worked great. The squirrels would torment the dogs. They never tested it.
We moved and now just have a little neighborhood lot. Didn't work. The field had to be set high for our big dogs. they would get zapped walking through the house. They had a little area they could go in that was safe. It wasn't worth it.
I gave it to my brother. He didn't flag train. One of his dogs gets it, the other will run through twitching and jumping, then not come back.
My wife took the collars off to walk the dogs every day. She got too close while not paying attention to how she was holding the collars. Apparently, it's unpleasant.
We moved and now just have a little neighborhood lot. Didn't work. The field had to be set high for our big dogs. they would get zapped walking through the house. They had a little area they could go in that was safe. It wasn't worth it.
I gave it to my brother. He didn't flag train. One of his dogs gets it, the other will run through twitching and jumping, then not come back.
My wife took the collars off to walk the dogs every day. She got too close while not paying attention to how she was holding the collars. Apparently, it's unpleasant.
Gumby said:We had one when we had 3.5 acres. It worked great. The squirrels would torment the dogs. They never tested it.
We moved and now just have a little neighborhood lot. Didn't work. The field had to be set high for our big dogs. they would get zapped walking through the house. They had a little area they could go in that was safe. It wasn't worth it.
I gave it to my brother. He didn't flag train. One of his dogs gets it, the other will run through twitching and jumping, then not come back.
My wife took the collars off to walk the dogs every day. She got too close while not paying attention to how she was holding the collars. Apparently, it's unpleasant.
This reminds me, if you have a step-up transformer from an old neon light, you can set up a nasty surprise for those squirrels.
Much more "humane" than shocking the dog. Just make sure it's up in a tree or something so that you don't get your dogs or the neighbor's cat. 