Re: [pyrnet] Electric Fences??

["Jim & Barb Hurlbutt" <jbhurlbutt@mindspring.com>]

Our pyrs are confined by a 4 ft fence that we put in ourselves for a total
cost well below your lowest $ figure.  Post hole digging w/ a rental
machine, got 8' posts and wire mesh on sale.  It was a hard monotonous job
but we only have to do it once...and it involved no risk of harm to our
dogs. There's lots of horse farms around here that use metal posts and catch
the wire mesh on it...maybe you could toodle around at one of the home
improvement places and see what turns up for ideas.  Just a thot.

Our neighbors did the electric fence thing w/ their well behaved german
shepherds  It only worked when there's nothing to 'bait' the poor dogs off.
One unsuspecting delivery person or neighborhood dogpal and they are out and
don't want to go home and get zinged after a breakout.  They have gotten
'lost' for a couple days every now and then...and the whole family
flips...yet they don't put in a fence.  Sometimes it's hard to understand.
----- Original Message -----
From: Custode, Adrienne <acustode@rational.com>
To: <pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 4:05 PM
Subject: [pyrnet] Electric Fences??


> Hey folks,
>
> Just last week I was bragging about how Luna would stay put on my unfenced
> acreage and guard the house without roaming off...
>
> The good news is she doesn't roam and just hangs out in the shade on a
small
> hill looking happily over her domain.
> The bad news is she wants to protect the house from
walkers/bikers/horseback
> riders passing by on the dirt road in front of my cabin and she has come
to
> believe the road is her property to protect.  She charges at the
infrequent
> passerby's barking ferociously and just this weekend really spooked a
horse
> and its rider with her "get off my property" behavior.  This, obviously
> isn't good and needs to be stopped ASAP.  A fence is the logical answer,
but
> if I fence, I would really need to do the whole thing with a driveway gate
> and all which I'm learning is going to cost about $15K+ (YIKES!!).
>
> I remember reading somewhere that electronic fencing doesn't work on
> Pyr's... I think it had something to do with their instincts to roam, but
a
> friend told me Luna's thick coat/mane might prevent it from working.
Since
> Luna isn't a "roamer", I am hoping I still have a shot at trying this
route,
> since I think I can go the professionally installed electric route for
about
> 2K instead of the 15K for a traditional split rail/wire mesh.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with their Pyrs and electronic fencing?
> (pros or cons would be appreciated.)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Adrienne and Luna in CO
>
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