Comments on: This chicken fence thing is not going well

By: H. Houlahan

H. Houlahan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:31:28 +0000

I don’t like walking a dog up to the fence. Set them up to learn any other way, including baiting it with peanut butter, but don’t be the one who lures or forces him near it.

It is a BIG jolt, nothing like the pulse from an e-collar, and a lot of dogs go hide under the porch for a while after getting zapped.

I don’t want to be associated with nasty bitey fence. Nasty bitey fence works just great without me.

By: Liz Palika

Liz Palika — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:38:36 +0000

I agree with having a dog touch it even if you have to walk the dog up to it. My friends have horses and use an electric fence. I make sure each of my dogs gets a reminder once a year so that they don’t run into it and panic.

Of course when I helped repair it one day, I refused to touch it, too, and made my husband do it!

It’s hilarious to watch a dog and horse play ‘catch me if you can’ with the dog dashing in and out of the pasture, running, ducking and sliding under the fence while the 1 year old colt tries to catch him on the other side. Laughed until I thought I was gonna, well, need clean pants. And the dog and colt are good friends; no predation.

By: redheather

redheather — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:35:47 +0000

I hope your fence is all hooked up now-I use Premier’s netting for my goats.

Just a word of warning-have all the dogs touch it with their nose so they get shocked. You will feel like a horrible meanie(and they may refuse to go out in the yard for a while ‘cause something BAD is out there) but it WILL save you from a screaming dog tangled in a live fence. I’ve been there, done that with a goat that decided to go through a square and it was awful. More for me than the goat-he just didn’t go through the fence anymore-I twitched and ran for the fence at any goat noise for a week!

By: Janeen

Janeen — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:19:42 +0000

I *heart* electricity. Regularly install my own light fixtures, ceiling fans, switches and etc. I also have a half dozen electronic training collars - all of which have been tested on my own neck. SRSLY, once you get over the hump of the fear of the unknown on that first exposure, it’s not such a terrible thing. And not necessarily painful.

Plus if you read and follow directions you’ll find that electricity is a wonderfully predictable thing.

By: Colorado Transplant

Colorado Transplant — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:21:21 +0000

Gina, I am afraid of electricity, also.

It almost wiped me out when I got a strong surge from my stove. I touched the plug-in part (they don’t put them there anymore) with wet hands—boy!

Ya, I thought the picture looked like the late Charlotte and then I read the posting. Sad, sad, sad.

Electricity I leave to others—I cannot deal with it.

By: Gina Spadafori

Gina Spadafori — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:06:04 +0000

Yes! I read the destructions. I get how it all works, can see that it’s really easy and am not having problems with seeing how it all goes together and how to get that to happen.

I am just a little … skeered. No accounting for it. Just a surprise phobia!

Going to work on it after dinner. Brian’s the backup plan. I will not be defeated by poultry netting!!

By: H. Houlahan

H. Houlahan — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:53:30 +0000

Um … you do know that you don’t plug it in until after it’s hooked up, right?