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Introduction to Radio Fences with Ground Wires
We offer three radio fences with ground wires. The first is a superior basic fence for dogs weighing 20 to 75 pounds. The second, for 15 to 220 pound dogs, resembles the first in most respects but has one stellar advantage: it comes with a hand-held remote training transmitter suited to training your dog to do all sorts of things (come, stay, don’t dig in the yard, don’t’ chase cats) besides training him to stay in the play area. The third, for 12 to 220 pound dogs, is simply the best radio fence available anywhere; it includes a hand-held remote training transmitter, numerous correction levels, a well-designed self-adjusting collar, and many other features. It desired, the length of the first two fences can be extended in 500-foot increments up to a maximum of 2,000 feet by purchasing additional wire and boundary flags (item 20-06), and the length of the third fence can be extended up to 4,500 feet in the same manner.
All of these fences bear the label of Innotek, the leading radio fence designer and maker. All come with a single receiving collar, 50 boundary flags, and 500 feet of ground wire sufficient to enclose about a third of an acre. They also come with a progressive correction system that first issues a warning tone and then steps up progressively as your dog approaches the boundary, making them well-suited to dogs of all temperaments from timid to stubborn. Additional collars, flags, wires, and other accessories are also offered.
Other features of all these fences:
- Above-Ground Installation: You do not need to bury your boundary wire. You can do so; but you can also get some staples (product 20-07), run the wire above ground, and staple it down every 5 feet or so. This saves a lot of labor and makes it easy to locate any breaks that may occur.
- Adjustable Correction Zone: You can adjust the system so that your dog’s receiving collar picks up the boundary wire’s signal anywhere from a few feet to 20 feet in from the wire.
- Automatic Safety Shutoff: After a reasonable but short period of corrective stimulus the system shuts down to keep from overexposing Rover to corrective commands. The system then reactivates itself automatically.
- Anti-Drain Feature: This prevents Rover from lingering for a prolonged time in the warning zone, a behavior that runs down the receiving collar’s battery.
- Internal Area Protection: When two boundary wires are twisted together they are silent (send no signal). So you can protect internal areas (gardens, pools, etc.) by taking two strands of the main boundary wire, twisting them together to reach the garden or pool to be protected, and going around that garden or pool with a single wire.
- Long and Short Hair Correction: The receiving collar comes with a set of short prongs for correcting short-haired dogs and a set of longer prongs for correcting long-haired dogs.
- Lightning Protection: All these systems come with protection against lightning-induced surges in the boundary wire, which protects your home from exposure to such surges.
- Line Break Indicator: This alerts you to the fact that a break has occurred in the boundary wire but does not tell where the break is (for which you need a line break detector; see Accessories).
- Multiple Collars: You can use any one of these systems to contain as many dogs as you like simply by providing one receiving collar for each dog. These additional collars must be purchased separately.
- No Cross Signals: Rover’s receiving collar will respond only to the pure digital signals emitted by the fence’s transmitter and will not respond to errant radio signals put out by other radio sources (computer systems, cell phones, etc).
- Instructions and DVD: Each fence comes with a complete set of installation instructions, a basic training manual, and a DVD demonstrating training procedures.