Quote Originally Posted by lute
I live in Indiana too and know how unpredictable the weather can be. Yesterday and today we had the second highest temps other than another town in TX and tomorrow it'll be in the 60's.

Anywho, I don't know much about electric fences, but I know that if you could afford the regular fencing I'd DEFINATLY go for it! there are sooo many things that can go wrong with electric fencing. For example, your dogs could ignore the shock and get stuck on the outside. We had someone call in the clinic the other day because she found a dog that had an electric fence collar on but she didn't know where she belonged. Fortinatly she had her rabies tag on and we could match her with her owner. Come to find out the dog ignored the shock and got stuck on the outside of the yard. Another thing that electric fencing does is prevent yoour dogs rom leaving but doesn't prevent people from comming into your yard and stealing your dogs. IT DOES HAPPEN! Also, as far as I know you have to burry the wire. Otherwise something could ruin it and ruin the whole system and you won't know until your dogs are gone. You could mow over it, get other animals caught in it, etc.

Good luck with your desicion. I would definatly go for the real fencing though!
I know, isn't the weather just weird? I want it to cool down...this hot weather is killing me. I enjoy autumn with its 60-70 temps....summer is too hot! Ick.

I wish we could go with solid fencing, but even just fencing off a section of our yard would be too expensive. I'm talking at the very least a thousand dollars, and that isn't even covering a smidgen of our front yard.

Our neighbors have and underground fence for their two dogs, and I know about how dogs can get stuck on the outside. I was petsitting their dogs and their Beagle, Beila, would NOT come up to the house. I just thought it was because of me as she was EXTREAMLY skittish of me at the time (when her owner introduced me to Beila, she screamed and took off running in the other direction. I didn't think I was that scary), so I didn't think anything of it. The next day when I went over she still didn't come up to the house. Again, I didn't think anything of it until I tried to bribe her with food. She came up to a certain point, yelped her head off, and took off into the woods. That was when I remembered that they had an invisible fence. Duh. So I took her food dish out past the fencing and when she was chowing down I slowly walked up to her (she still didn't like me) and took the collar off of her. She loved me after that and was all kisses. I told the neighbors what had happened and they just upped the shock. It hasn't happened again as far as I know.

I'm not worried about anything coming into our yard. Some loose dogs do occasionally, but it isn't a problem.

Really, burying the wire is the only big question I have at the moment. There is no way (or, we are much to lazy to do so as it would take 10 years) we can bury it manually, but I don't need a huge trench digger that cuts down into the ground three feet. All of the smaller (and cheaper to rent!) trench diggers I've found only go to 1 1/2''. We need at least 3''. *smacks forehead*

Here is the fencing I've decided to get. I found it on sale for $200 on a different site instead of $310:
Pet-Safe Comfort Fit Deluxe