Underground Electric Dog Fence Premium - Standard Dog Fence System for Easy Setup and Superior Longevity and Continued Reliable Pet Safety - 2 Dog | 500 Feet Standard Dog Fence Wire…

It’s been a couple of months since I bought this system. We have two dogs, a 70 pound mutt (beagle/boxer mix maybe) and a Great Pyrenees mix puppy that is now 90 pounds.We have over an acre of land but we only fenced in about half an acre(or a little bit more). It took my husband a total of about five hours to do everything. He actually dug the trench himself. It was hard work but not too bad because you don’t have to dig too deep. We live beside a cattle farm so around two sides we just used wire hooks and attached them directly under the fence. We tested the system before and after installation and had no issues with the fence. The wire is covered by high grass so we aren’t worried about the weather.Training was easy with the Great Pyrenees and difficult with the “mutt”. The Pyrenees was about 6 or 7 months old when we put in the fence. I kept it on beep only for 3 days and walked her hundreds of times around the inside of where I put the flags. After three days I put it on a low shock level and then I would walk on the outside of the flags and kept her on the inside. She got shocked and had no reaction to it so I increased it until she had a slight reaction. It’s on 6 now because that’s the level she reacts to. Anyway, I kept walking the outside the flags and kept her on the inside with a leash and if she tried to come outside the flags it would shock her and I hurried her back away from it. I only did this for a day. The next day I let her loose and stayed outside with her. If she got near the flags I would tell her to stop and got her back away from them. I did this only for a few hours. After that I stayed outside and let her just run around and I watched her. She stayed in the area she was supposed to and didn’t try to leave. In the two months or so she has gotten shocked a few times. She’s still a puppy and does silly puppy things and forgets about the fence (chasing her tail is an example). She yelps and remembers to get away and then she’s fine. We’ve had this dog since she was 6 weeks old so she is a secure dog and trusts us so it was an easy process with her.The “mutt” was a rescue and it took him forever to do it. The first time he heard the beep (on beep only) he freaked out. He refused to go off the patio. So I made it as stress free as possible for him. The puppy is the one that trained him as crazy as it sounds it true. She made him play and finally he learned. He has gotten shocked maybe once or twice but he realized it meant to stay within the boundary. If it weren’t for Daisy our Pyrenees, Bo would not have taken to the fence at all. I didn’t train Bo because he wouldn’t let me. I trained Daisy for 4 or 5 days. She’s really smart and took to the fence fast. Both dogs stay in the fence during the day with no issues. I take the collar off at 6pm and they stay inside to rest until 7am the next day. I do take them out once at night but they are supervised because we had a lot of wild life that runs through our yard at night. They come back in after they use the bathroom and don’t sleep outside. I read this is good to help with resting their neck as well.Since the dogs haven’t gotten shocked a lot the batteries on their collar seems to work good still. I test them once a week to make sure the fence is working properly. The flags are still up after two or so months. I am slowly removing them. Since Bo took a long time to learn the fence, I’ve kept them up for him. By spring, they will be removed completely.I’m extremely happy with this purchase. Before we bought it we were having a lot of issues with Daisy because she wasn’t getting enough exercise. Now, both dogs have a ball outside running and playing. I’ve read Great Pyrenees have problems staying in the boundaries. Daisy hasn’t yet but her hair isn’t as thick as a pure bread although it’s still pretty thick. I would recommend shaving down the fur where the prongs are located if it’s really thick so they can feel the shock. I had to increase the shock probably because Daisy couldn’t feel it through her fur. When she didn’t feel the shock she wasn’t being corrected properly. Once she felt it she was like oh crap, I better move and she moved.I hope you enjoyed my poorly written review. I’m rushing this through my child’s nap time but I really wanted to let others know how great this fence is! It takes work and you really need to figure out what works best for your dog. I didn’t follow the training that was recommended but I did read it and I also watched videos on it. This just worked best for us. All dogs are different and have to be trained differently...my two dogs were trained completely different (one was trained by another dog lol).

Love this fence, my Riley dog was hit by a car. we bought a fence for Ny my other two dogs. I don’t have to worry when they are outside. Very easy to install. This works so well I bought one for our vacation home in Florida. Thank you.

I installed the standard fence a few days ago in my small yard. It is a fully fenced yard, in a city, but the top 40 feet of the yard is redwood trees and oak trees that make our dog a mess. So we simply wanted a way to keep him out of the top 40 feet. This was perfect. But I made some big mistakes--and so what could have been fairly easy became a 10 hour installation process, and a very difficult training process. I generally don't write reviews but I thought there might be a little meaning in my awful experience if someone else learned from it!First, issue: if you need more than 10 feet of twisted wire, buy the twisted wire. Don't try to twist the wire yourself. I needed 60 feet of twisted wire. (You twist two wires together over sections you don't want to electrify. I twisted it along our existing fence line so he wouldn't be afraid of going up to the edge of the property). Well, twisting 60 feet of two lines of 20 gauge wire is just about impossible. It tangles in on itself within a foot. And you quickly learn you can't keep twisting in one direction. You have to twist back in the other direction or the knots quadruple. Three hours twisting wire, and two hours untangling wire. That ain't fun!Two, burying wire is not easy. Buy the higher grade wire so you can put it above ground with stakes. Now, I needed to cross the 50 feet of width of my property and go back across. How hard can it be to bury 100 feet of wire to a depth of a foot? Since I had a small property I bought the standard grade system. Big mistake. Given that we have lots of trees and rocks, on an upslope, with hard clay soil, it can be really hard! I did bury it (50 feet in one direction, 50 feet back), but another four hours of time.To address these first two issues, I should have just bought the pro grade kit. An extra $150 would have saved me about 6 hours and a LOT of frustration. It would be really helpful if the Amazon sales page honestly and clearly warned people away from twisting wire themselves (which is nearly impossible) and explained the huge benefits of a higher gauge above-ground installation. If your time is worth something to you, buy the more expensive system.My third mistake--which was the big one: In training my dog, I tried to set the pain threshold to zero (sound only), as the instructions suggest. What I didn't know is that the collar is preset on a pretty high level of pain (setting 5) in the factory. And it is very easy to think you have reset to pain level zero (the monitor shows it os on zero), only to have not actually reset the pain level at all. That's what happened with us. We started to train our dog (on sound only) and he freaked out. We brought him to the wire four times and he started to cry. We thought he must be really afraid of the beep--which seemed kind of funny. But then I tested it myself--on myself--to find out that there was a big shock coming out of the collar. I called the company and they explained it is still on level 5. It just looks like its on level 0. Because he was shocked so strongly and so early, he doesn't know where the wire is in the yard. He never learned the placement (even though it's marked with flags). The problem now is that he won't go within 20 feet of the wire, which basically means he's afraid of our entire backyard. We now need to un-train his fear in order to retrain him.In all, the product itself seems excellent. The problems with installation are partly my fault. I wish the company would have been clearer in their marketing materials, but hey, they are trying to sell products and don't want to poo poo their own devices. The last problem (where you end up shocking your dog without meaning to) is surely on the company and angers me. No one wants their dog to be shocked unintentionally and at a high level. But worse: the whole purpose of the system is to train your dog to approach but not cross the wire. I've trained my dog to fear my entire back yard. The system should be fixed so that it's very obvious if the collar and system are on different levels. That should be clearly explain in instructions. And the default should be set to zero, not five.I hope that helps someone avoid what has been a frustrating mini-disaster!

We have only just started training our dogs with it so I can’t comment on the effectiveness although it does work as advertised. Everything shown on amazon was exactly what we received. We did 1500 ft of it so the trenching was a bit of work but otherwise very easy to install.

works great... keeps the fur kids in the yard which is exactly what we wanted. Just wish my husband knew how to dig a straight line! lol........ We have 2 dogs on this... but not sure if we have the collars set up to be independent levels, still working on that and the instructions don't really talk about troubleshooting this at all.

keeps both our Goldens In the yard at the cabin. It’s so nice being able to let them out and not have to worry about them terrorizing the neighbors.

It was easy to install and link the collar to the control panel. After only 1 day my dog was avoiding the electric fence and not leaving the yard

The dogs love being able to roam the property not tied up. All it takes is one shock and they don't even try to leave again.