Product Review

This thing is a life saver. Set up wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. A bit time consuming but not hard.We have it as a back up circling out gates. Between a foster kid and crappy yard people our gate gets left open quite frequently. My Aussie stays or will walk to the front door but my sister's husky will be gone in an instant.The in ground fence helps us keep her safe while we are working on recall and boundary training

Read the directions! Like really read them. I half read them and got to work.. then realized I needed an additional line to do what I wanted. I rented a little edger for the day and installed this pretty easy. Definitely a time consuming task - I thought it would only take a couple hours, but I was wrong. Took my husband and I all day working together. We weren’t always on task, but plan on it taking most of the day if you’ll be using the entire spool. Again, I can’t stress enough read the manual before digging.After it was installed, my dog got it right away. He’s got himself a couple times but mostly stays within the fence. I can let him have his freedom and he loves it!

We have a dog that tends to be a digger and tries to get out of the fenced yard. I got this to try along the edge of the fence so that it would not be any fun for him to be there trying to dig. I'm not sure I would trust an electric fence alone but for this is works perfectly.My friend installed it for us because frankly this was over my skill level. I'd consider hiring someone because it's not as simple as it seems. Running the wire is, but hooking it all up to a power source is a little more and there are tools needed so if you do not feel comfortable with that, hire someone.We did not really have to use the flags or training since we just wanted something to deter the dog from going near the fence. We did not have to turn it up very high because it's not like the dog would just be able to dig in a hurry so as soon as he felt the collar go off he backed off and learned real fast to stay away from the fence.This is a perfect solution to a dog who tries to escape under the fence, and much more effective than trying to put up a barrier

This is a classic invisible fence system for two dogs. While the hardware looks like it came from Radio Shack in the 80s, it functions well and does its job.The lightweight receivers are great for dogs on the smaller side at 8 lbs. does offer smaller ones which might be better if your dogs are on the smaller side.We had a wired pet fence 15 years ago and I found it interesting that this unit was nearly exactly the same. I guess if it's not broke...Setting up the in-ground fence was reasonably easy once we decided exactly where we wanted it placed. It was a little challenging since we didn't want to run the wire around the entire outside of the house but wanted the dog to transition out the back door into the protected area. We were able to run the wire far enough away that it worked just fine. It was a little challenging to figure out how to place the wires, it did feel like there was a lot of extra wires going back and forth with the surge protector and power to the units. We were able to plug the electronics into the garage and run the boundary wires out through a vent hole but it wasn't ideal trying to keep the units inside and powered.The receiver units were small enough for our larger Yorkie who is about 11 lbs but had to get a smaller one for our small dog which is about 5 lbs. We like the fact that the collar has multiple settings to be able to know that the dogs are able to be notified but won't be getting too much of a shock as they are learning.The dog responded quickly to the warnings as our puppies are afraid of anything different so it was very easy to keep them in the boundaries. I don't like that the battery life is only about 2 months, it seems that for a unit costing as much as this one that they would be using better battery technology. I know offers some with rechargeable batteries, it is unfortunate that they aren't included in this model.Overall, this unit is as described, a BASIC unit that gets the job done. It includes everything you need but if you are looking for anything more modern you'll have to look at the higher end units.