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There is a way to keep your dog in your yard, without digging up for fence posts and hiring a contractor. You can avoid keeping your dog in-doors or keeping it always on a leash (for fear of it running after anything that catches its fancy) by getting a dog fence installed. You can have a traditional fence or a modern dog fence, it’s up to you.

If you do the installation for the traditional fence yourself, be prepared to either make or buy the fence posts yourself. There’s also the digging tools and equipment, which you’ll either buy or rent. Or you could hire a contractor and it will cost more. If your house is found in areas where there’s shared space, old trees getting in the way, or other structure, this could get messy - you may need to get permission to remove those or build through, over, or around them.

Some dog owners live in communities where it’s forbidden to set up a physical fence. If you rent, the same problem persists - your contract may prohibit you from performing such landscape-changing remodeling. This means the modern dog’s fence is an option you may want to explore.

Here are some ways in which the modern dog’s fence differs from the traditional one.

A modern dog fence is invisible. A length of wires buried underground and lining up a perimeter within your property, that’s one essential part of it. A device broadcasts radio signals through those wires, with the broadcast detected by a receiver collar on your dog. The moment your dog approaches the wire boundaries, the receiver “senses” the broadcast signal and emits a warning tone, to be followed by a low volt shock when your dog remains near the boundaries.

A modern dog fence is easy to install. Once you draw your property or the perimeter you want your dog to stay in, you can bury the wires yourself, no handyman or heavy digging needed. Make sure the receiver collar is properly snug fit on your dog’s neck; do this before you start training it to get used to the boundary wires.

With a modern dog fence, your dog can’t gnaw at or scale or dig under a physical fence. A wooden fence runs the risk of letting your dog claw it up, risking some injury. Still, with a linked fence, your pet may still persist in trying to climb over it. And there’s also the amount of damage to your yard or garden a dog can do either in an attempt to dig its way out or just out or boredom. You will not have these problems with a modern invisible dog fence.

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