According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals, an alarming number of dogs and cats are lost to their owners. A 2012 study they conducted showed that 14% of dogs and 15% of cats in the United States became lost at least one time within a 5-year period. When people lose their pets, both the owners and the animals suffer. Luckily, the study also showed that 93% of these lost dogs and 75% of these lost dogs were eventually recovered.
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Most people know that they should affix an ID tag to their pet with all of the owner’s information. Others take it a step further and get a microchip implanted in their dog. Both of these things help, but they are not enough for your pet to not get lost in the first place. What is an owner to do?
Proper training is the key to keeping your dog at home with you, where he belongs. Most owners try to successfully leash train their dog, but what happens if your dog gets away from you? Perhaps you have a fence around your yard that helps to remedy this situation. A fence definitely helps the situation, unless the dog happens to get around it or underneath it.
What if you live somewhere that you cannot erect a fence for your dog? In any case, wireless pet containment is the way to go. What exactly does that mean? It is a safe and effective way to keep your dog from escaping from your yard.
You may wonder exactly how wireless pet containment works. There are many types of wireless dog fences on the market, so be sure to do some research before you decide on one. The main aspects to consider are how much ground you need it to cover and the size and temperament of your dog. What these systems do is cast a wireless signal over your yard, in the shape of a circle. With a transmitter located indoors, you adjust the circle to the size that you need in order to cover the area of your yard in which you want your dog to roam.
You then place a collar on your dog, which is designed to communicate with the wireless transmitter. It gives information to you on the location of your dog within the yard, but most importantly, the collar discourages your dog from leaving your yard.
It works like this. You let your dog outside and he or she starts to approach the edge of your yard, where you have set the boundary. They will then hear a tone and/or feel a vibration in their collar. If they keep going, trying to leave your yard, they will receive a mild static correction. This happens through contact points that are located on their collar and are touching their neck.
Like most people, you may be wondering if receiving this shock is detrimental to your pet. Know this. A static shock feels about the same as you running across the carpet and then touching a piece of metal. No big deal, right? The dog may feel a little surprised more than anything else. It only takes about a week for your dog to be trained to respect the boundaries you have set for them.
In this short time, your dog will learn where their boundaries are, and to stay within them. This allows the owner to rest assured that their dog isn’t going to escape your yard. Another of the main advantages of a wireless fence is that after they are trained, you can just open up the door and let them use the restroom on their own, without any effort from you. No leash to fight with, and you don’t have to go outside with them on a cold winter’s day. But most importantly, your dog will not get away from you and become another statistic. Is it safe? Yes it is safe check out this article