This was just barely enough to get around my entire property perimeter. My 75 pound golden retriever seems to respond well on a 2 or 3 setting. I am using this product to save my wood fence that my dog was attacking due to some annoying little yapper dogs next door. I was replacing fence boards left and right. This has also slowed down the barking at the neighbors dogs as the barking and attacking of the fence were associated actions! Easy to install!

It actually works! My son rescued a part Lab part Boxer pup after his mom was ran over at my son's school. Soon, he outgrew the garage and was living outside. Then he got old enough to start wandering into the neighbor's yard and the search was on to contain him. I had looked at these type setups because I don't like fences or leashes. I want him to be able to run and play. This was the cheapest head unit I could find, but it appeared to be the same as the more expensive models, so I got it and upgraded the cable to this: http://www..com/1000ft-14AWG-Professional-Grade-Dog/dp/B00CA5KV0W?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00 and it was worth it. My son just hit part of the wire with the weed eater last Saturday and it put some scratches on the insulation but it was fine! We manually buried 800+ feet of the cable one weekend and bought a pack of white pin flags since there were not enough provided. That was about an acre. We came back toward the house and went around the pool but made it where he can still get up on the deck. I hooked up the unit and tested it and it was pretty easy. Read the instructions. One complaint I have is the clamps used to hold the wire in the unit are weak and do not hold the heavier guage wire as well as I would like. This lab pup is crazy and had been used to running wherever he wanted for many weeks, so I was skeptical. But the kids and my wife were consistent to let him out of his pen and train him what would happen if the boundary was approached. It took several days because he was used to running all over the place. And we had to adjust the width of the boundary and up the level of the collar once. But, I have to say that I am well pleased. He knows he can't follow us or other animals out of bounds. But he enjoys his 1 acre to play be a dog and my front yard and landscaping arent being destroyed. Win Win....

This saved our lives. We were using a tie out on our 8 month old foxhound until we could decide if we should get an inground wired fence, a wireless fence, or a real fence for our property. We weren't fans of the idea of shocking our pup. But boy does it work. My husband tested the collar on himself first, it's more of the static shock you get if you touch a metal object after shiffling your feet on thr floor. The device has adjustable settings. Which is great! Our pup has been using the fence for about a week and she is learning quick! Make sure you watch some videos on youtube on how to train your dog, they definitly help...

Great fence at a low price, although we did not use the wire that came with it. We purchased 16 gauge wire since we have it around 4 acres and thought the reception would be better. We purchased a hedgehog trencher (also inexpensive), which dug a neat little trench through our yard and wooded areas. Our son was determined to bury the fence! Just make sure you purchase extra blades for the trencher. He went through three of them. Our very active outside dog is now free to roam!

I installed this system, but upgraded to 14 gauge wire. It's awesome. Our dog ran away on a regular basis and rolled in dead things or excrement. I put this fence in 2 months ago, did some training, and smell of death/poo has not returned. The dog seems to understand the boundaries, and enjoys playing inside her confined zone. Excellent!I used a flat edge shovel to bury the cable. Not for the faint of heart.

The product arrived as promised. We installed it with the wire above ground so we could test it. Once we were confident that it was working, we buried the wire in places where it could be damaged. The process to bury it was simple if a bit tedious. We pushed a flat edged shovel into the ground and then just pushed the wire into the sliced ground with our hands. In the two months since it was installed, the wire stayed put and was never damaged by lawnmowers or other vehicles. In order to complete a circle around about 3/4 acre, we needed to use additional wire.Initially, we did not twist the wire tightly enough to keep it from shocking near the control box, once we figured that out and got the wire near the back door high enough so it would not shock the dog when he came to the door, the system was completed operational. That was the easy part. Training our three year old rescued border collie took a bit of patience. He was new to us so part of the challenge was simply that we were figuring out how he learned while trying to train him to use the fence. It took 3-4 weeks to get to the point where we were confident that he would not run right through it. Part of the issue was that I was hesitant to turn up the shock to a higher level. Once I did, it was much easier to get his attention. It does take consistency and patience. We kept walking him around the perimeter and showing him where it was safe to play. In the end, he loves to go out and explore in the yard.This was a great solution. We wanted to fence a large area and cross the lawn. There was not a good option for a physical fence as we need to be able to drive to the back field periodically and needed to and cross the lawn. This fence worked perfectly....