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Many pet owners would like for their pets to stay at home, if they could find a way to keep them there without making them feel imprisoned. Some dogs, for instance, gallivant around the neighbourhood and even come home, if they ever, with wounds and perhaps fleas from other dogs. They could get hit by a car, eat unhealthy food from trash, or fail to find their way home. Traditional wooden fences is one way to keep your pets inside your property. Still, this kind of pet fencing has its own set backs.

They might not be high enough to deter your dog from climbing over. The problem with this is that the dog might get hurt in trying to get through or over the fence. Consider also that not many have the extra time or skill to put up the wooden fences themselves. You may have to do most of the shopping for the materials and tools yourself. Even when you acquire the materials, you’ll need to use a digger to ensure a third of each post is buried securely. Despite your efforts, you have no guarantee the dog will not be able to hurt himself while trying to get over or through the fence you erected.

You could of course hire a contractor to do these yourself. But such digging might not be allowed, especially when you are only renting the place you live in. If you live in a community where there are ordinances prohibiting setting up of physical fences, that’s another problem.

Electronic or invisible pet fencing does away with ruining the landscape of where you live. There are several ways in which this set up can work to keep your pet from leaving as it pleases. One type, by far the most common, relies on wires buried around a specified location. Your dog is supposed to wear a collar tracked by the system. The collar emits a warning sound when the pet goes near the boundaries. A static correction is activated when the dog continues to walk past the boundaries.

Another pet fencing set ups involves no wires around a perimeter. It relies, instead, on radio signals a central source sends out to limit the “roaming” territory of the dog and to detect when the dog tries to leave that area. Should the dog try to escape from the perimeter, the collar also sends out a warning prior to a static correction.

There is one aspect of having put up wooden fences – if they work, you shouldn’t need to train your dog anymore, which is an aspect needed with electronic fences. Again, the decision is up to the dog owner and his circumstances.