Electric Fences

You are responsible for your pet’s safety, health, and happiness. Along with feeding, playing and grooming your dog, he also needs regular exercise to remain healthy. Chaining your dog in the backyard will not give it the exercise required. That is one of the reasons that an underground electric dog fence is a great idea. A Sure Guard electric dog fence and other electric fences operate by using a wireless or wired transmitter, which communicates with the dog’s radio collar. There are electric dog fence articles available at pet stores, building supply stores and on the internet. An electrical dog fence provides your pet with a secure, safe space to play and run in while keeping him safe from traffic and other dangers. With an electric dog fence, there are no worries about inspection codes, zoning laws or having a traditional fence that does nothing for your landscaping.

Pet owners use electric fence to keep their dogs or cats from wandering outside the property boundaries. The homeowner installs a dog electric fence simply by burying a wire just below the surface of the ground, along the boundary line of the area they want fenced. The wire, connected to a power source in the garage or house, transmits a radio signal along the buried wire. When approaching the electric fence, a dog, wearing a special collar, receives a mild electric shock similar to a static electricity shock. He soon learns to avoid the area where you buried the wires.

For people that own horses, electric horse fencing is a secure and safe way to contain their horses. You can add an electric horse fence to other types of fence, which makes them even more effective and safe for containing horses. Because horses need to see their barriers, they design the new types of electric fencing available today with wider bands or ribbons and braids for greater visibility. Horses soon learn not to bump, chew, rub against, or push on electric fences because they do not like the sensation they feel. With electric horse fencing, the goal is to startle or sting the animal without causing any type of harm, so an electric fence operates using higher voltage but low amperage. An electric fence charger is state of the art technology, which lets you know when the battery is low by displaying a flashing red light. Many electric fence chargers have a green LED indicator, which flashes when it is above twenty-five hundred volts. Some also have a switch for adjusting the output to half or full power.