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Originally Posted by red98vett That comment about Children on Leashes ?  Hmmmmmmm.....not cool. |
I laughed so hard when I read this because boy do I agree! My mom took me and my brother (2 years younger) to Disney Land when we were very little. The only thing that I even remember is that my mom bought those child harness/leash things because she was so scared of losing us in such a big park. Needless to say, we hated them......and my brother really hated his when Mickey Mouse managed to get a hold of his "leash"!!!
Sorry....back to the subject at hand. I know that a lot of people have posted their opinions already, but it seems like many people are interested in hearing from those who have used them. My parents installed an underground electric fence at least 6 or 7 years ago. Back then we only had our lab, but now they still have the lab and an English Setter as well. They live on a steep hill and their house is about 1/2 down where the road starts to curve a little. The cars just fly down the hill and last year alone took out at least 4 mailboxes (most completely destroyed). One car last year even flipped and hit the pole in their yard and took out the electric wires (the front yard is rather large and the house sits back from the road).......luckily the father and little boy were just fine. In their case, their main concern is keeping the dogs in the yard. As many have already said, you can adjust the voltage on the collars to make sure that the dogs aren't receiving too big of a shock. They marked the whole border with little flags and for the first day or two would walk them around the border on leashes to show them the where they could go. As the dogs would get close to the flags, they would hear a beeping noise and once they cross the flags, they receive a slight shock (each of us held the collars and crossed the line to see just how much of a shock it was and it is more of a surprise than anything...definitely doesn't hurt). Their lab doesn't even wear the collar anymore because she just knows not to go anywhere near the edges of the yard. The other one, bless her heart, just loves to run around outside and doesn't seem to be "all there". She has never left the yard, but they keep the collar on her whenever she is outside because they don't want to chance her running off after a bird one day (that's all she does is watch and chase birds). I personally think that these things are wonderful.