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Petsafe Wireless dog fence update
By jelly | March 16, 2008
Well now that we have had this up and running for the last month or so I thought I would update. The petsafe fence has worked great, the dogs stay around the house and finally now are venturing out away from the house and into the yard. Hopefully there will be more of this in the near future and hopefully this will mean they go back to doing their business somewhere that I don’t have to clean it up 
The one thing that I’m a little worried about with the wireless fence is what happens if you loose power to your home, if we loose power, which we probably do at least once a year then the dogs are going to get shocked for 30 seconds because their collars will not see the home station. We are going to get ASAP small UPS’s for the home stations so at if we get power spikes where the power goes out and then right back on it will not shock the puppies. This does worry us a little though. I wish the unit would allow you to set that 30 second max zap value. I think something closer to 5 would be good for my puppies.
I’m also thinking about changing the colors to just beep instead of shock and see if that will still keep them in the zone, if they have associated the sound with the shock maybe that will be enough and then if we loose power they will panic because of the sound but at least they won’t get shocked.
Topics: General | 2 Comments »
March 17th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Hi – I have been following your experience with our Wireless Fence. I am CEO of RadioFence.com the oldest and largest retailer of PetSafe products. A battery back-up is a good idea, but chances are, in the event of a power outage, your pets will not receive a correction. Here is the language from the owner’s manual on this topic: “The Wireless System is designed to recognize power outages and shuts
down without activating the Receiver Collar. However, if your pet is near
the Boundary Zone during the power failure, he may receive a Static
Correction. To lessen this chance, you may consider a battery backup
device for the Transmitter if your area experiences frequent power
outages.”
Now that your dogs are fulling trained, the warning tone very well may be enough to keep them contained. I have personally had five different dogs on our containment systems over the years, and once they were trained, they never even received a warning let alone a correction.
Best Wishes,
Larry
March 17th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
thank you that is good to know. And thank you for visiting my site. I am very happy with the product so far.
As I said I got scared when the unit became unplugged and it started shocking one dog. Now that I think about it either only one dog got shocked or at least they other 2 didn’t react.