11/8/2023 0 Comments Petsmart invisible fence collar![]() ![]() Rex is an AWESOME dog but is very spirited and determined to chase the neighbor’s cats. She is one of the sweetest animals that you will ever meet although she might possibly be the dumbest dog that I have ever owned. Our current cast of characters is as follows: We are dog people at heart though and soon brought a new pack into our home. Our two female Golden Retrievers, Pip and Cindy, eventually died. However, we didn’t plan well and only bought batteries once we realized that the ones in the collars were dead. Once or twice we ended up buying them off of Amazon which was an okay solution if you were planning in advance. Sometimes they would have them at Petsmart and sometimes they wouldn’t. Sometimes they would have them at Lowes and sometimes they wouldn’t. If they couldn’t see it then it didn’t exist.įinding replacement batteries for the collars was a pain in the butt. ![]() It never helped to explain the fence to them. There were many times when the mail man and other delivery folks refused to drop off packages, etc because they were terrified of dogs and thought ours were running loose in the neighborhood. It did not occur to me that one of the biggest advantages of the system was also a drawback. People could not see the Invisible Fence. A decent UPS is going to set you back at least $100 and I consider it to be essential equipment if you want to use a wireless invisible fence. A UPS is essentially a power strip with a built in battery backup that will provide power to your devices for an hour or so in case the electricity goes out. The solution was to plug the controller into an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS). Had the unit plugged into an outlet that was on a GFCI that tripped due to an event somewhere else on the circuit.Accidentally bumped the plug out of the wall outlet while cleaning.We found several ways of screwing up and powering off the controller and it scared and confused our dogs. ![]() The receiver can also lose the signal if the controller is accidentally turned off. However, the dog leaving the boundary is not the only way that the receiver can stop receiving the signal. If the receiver doesn’t get a signal then it thinks the dog has left the boundary and will start shocking the dog. The receiver on the collar always need to be getting a signal from the controller unit. What I Didn’t Like About the PetSafe Wireless Fence All in all I was really pleased with how the fence worked. We never had to move the shock correction up past the second setting. Pip and Cindy learned the boundaries and the meaning of a beeping collar pretty fast. I was able to use the controller in the front of the house to dial in the perfect front yard boundary while using the unit in the back of the house to open up a massive boundary in the back yard. I ended up buying a second control unit and setting it up in the back of the house. Our yard backs up to a very large unused wooded lot. I LOVED how my backyard looked and did not want to spoil the view with a regular fence. The invisible fence setup I eventually went with cost me a few hundred dollars instead of several thousand for a traditional metal fence. I am a frugal guy (most of the time) and cost was a major consideration for me. The wireless fence is affordable and can be set up in minutes with no digging. Here is the promotional sales video for the unit that I bought.Īnd here is a little more information on how to set up and use the fence. When the collar no longer receives the radio signal it knows the dog has left the boundary and sends a corrective shock to the dog.When the radio signal starts getting weak the dog has reached the boundary of the system and the collar makes warning beep sounds.As long as the collar receives the radio signal nothing happens.Your dog wears a battery powered collar that has a radio receiver. What Is The Invisible Wireless Fence?Ī wireless invisible fence has a central control unit that sends out a radio signal. ![]()
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