One thing people forget is that not only should the fence keep your dog in, it should keep other dogs and animals out!

Last year when I was living in Kansas, I’d often go horseback riding and take 4 of my friend’s dogs with me off-leash. (Rural Kansas, and the dogs have a pretty solid recall.)

There was one property down the road, though, that had electric fence for their 2 German Shepards. It kept their dogs in, but it didn’t stop other dogs from coming in as well. They didn’t want dogs coming on to their property, but had no fence to keep animals out. Eventually, we just stopped riding down that road because it was too big of a hassle to keep the dogs from running over to say Hi.

Mary H.