Comments on: Gulag

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Also consider an invisible fence, or try training with a training collar.

By: Doug Thompson

Doug Thompson — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Been there, tried that. She laughs at the training collar and an invisible fence offers no containment for a dog that neither feels nor fears pain.

By: Elise

Elise — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Glad to hear she’s still part of the family, how about some photos of her in the beautiful fall leaves?

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Doug,

Don’t do the invisible fence. I did that with Abigale years ago, an still to this day she reacts badly to pagers and other noises.

Try Rabit fence. It is cheap, if you curl the bottom inward she can’t dig under it, and maybe she won’t learn to jump over it.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I know two guys who have dogs who are capable of shooting through the invisible fence and getting trapped on the outside, somehow unable to get back in.

My dogs are German Shepherds and similar size and temperament, so I just built a large fenced area in my back yard. It wasn’t cheap, and they don’t care for the restriction, but cars, wildlife and passing humans are all too dangerous for my family to roam free.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

We used electric training collars with our Aussie/German Shepherds. It took approx two days of watching their every move and hitting the button when necessary. They never roam now, and stay within the perimeters of our property. No electric fence, just the collars.

Once in awhile, we must put them on again for a refresher course, but not often. We pen them only at night, to protect them from packs of coyotes which roam this area.