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Thanks for letting me know JoeHooker, I cannot fence my house as the boundaries are large and there are other reasons also.
There are plenty of dogs in our area who come into our back garden & all are either retrievers or labs so when he moves beyond the puppy stage then he will wander.......neighbours are fine as they all have dogs.
Just want to be cautious in the first few months
If you really love dogs, i wouldn't touch one of those radio fences with a ten foot pole. I'm nearing the end of my new build and we got a pup last year, the new house has an extremely larger amount of ground around it than my former home. So i to done some research into ways of prohibiting his rambling. I came across a website i think it was a link off the national dog training of Ireland website, effectively those radio fences with the collar that gives the dogs a shock are pure cruelty. They done tests on various collars, where the students or doctor's can't remember held the collar to test the shock, all of the testers could only hold onto the collar for a maximum of 2-3 seconds at a medium setting, this i'm nearly sure they stated was for a medium to large size dog, those of which can't get away from the shock and have to put up with it for a minimum of 10-12 seconds.
There also was a photograph of a labrador that got his collar wet and then unfortunately got shocked by the collar, the shock burnt two holes in his neck where the metal prongs have to touch the skin.
Don't mean to put a dampner on it for you but i would not subject my fella to that not with all the love they give you when they arrive and live with you. I'm just going to pay a little bit extra and properly fence off the place for my fella, i think its better than playing a little hitler.
It is no more cruel than tapping the puppies nose when he soils indoors.
THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
earlier - you don't have to revisit the thread.No need for further responses on this please
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