Keeping your dog in your yard.
After you have made the decision to contain your dog in your yard with the Hidden® electric type dog fence the next step is to decide exactly where in the yard you want your dog to be able to go and where you want to keep him out of. In this post we will go over the two most popular types of configurations for the electronic dog fence. In future posts we will present additional containment configurations as well.
First: The one “Must” when designing or configuring a containment area for your dog is to realize that the area you want to contain your dog must be bound by a continuous wire referred to as a ‘loop’. In other words the wire must start and end in the same place.
Clients often ask what is the best configuration. That really depends on you, your desires of where you want your dog to have access to, where you want to limit his access in your yard. For example you might want him to stay out of the vegetable or flower garden, or you might want to keep him out of the pool area or you might want to significantly limit his access to the driveway because she is a small dog and you want drivers who come into your driveway to have plenty of time to see your dog and therefore want to limit your dog to only a small part of the driveway nearest the house.
So here is the most generous containment option for the dog it is referred to as a Full Loop. This configuration keep the dog from neighbors and the street and contains the dog to essentially the whole yard.
The other most common configuration set up for the underground dog fence is called the split-yard configuration. The split-yard is typically configured when you want your dog to be in one area most of the time- For example the back yard. Those who choose this configuration typically say they want their dog in the back yard and don’t want him in the front unless they specifically let him there. This configuration provides a dog area and a mostly dog free area. That is unless he is specifically let out into the front yard.