A pet containment system is a safe, humane, and effective way to keep your pets in your yard - or whichever area on your property you mark off.
Traditional physical fences usually involve digging up your property's soil, often with hired help and rented digging tools - unless you do all the handyman work yourself; with a pet containment system involving buried wires and radio signals, there's no heavy digging or paid labor needed.
A device sends radio signals through the wires in the ground.
The wires form the perimeter actually, since it broadcasts radio signals on both sides, from two to twelve feet as pet your settings.
In this set up, your dog wears a special receiver collar that has a device attached to it.
The collar's device must be in contact with your dog's skin for it to work effectively.
So when the collar is brought near the boundaries, it first emits a warning tone, to be followed by a static correction if the dog does not move back, away from the boundary wires.
This low volt shock is nothing to worry about, as it's no different from the static one feels on doorknobs and refrigerators.
You can set up your own pet containment all in one afternoon all by yourself.
You can easily buy one from any online dog supply store, or from a pet supply shop near you.
There may be slight variations, but most packages will include the wires, the receiver collar (at least one), marker flags, and the broadcast device.
There is of course an instruction manual that comes with the package.
But if you shopped online, the good product websites usually contain videos walking you through how to choose pet containments systems, how to install it on your property, and how to train your dog.
The videos are so short - just a few minutes - and they're usually easy to understand.
They are a good supplement, if not a replacement, to the info in the user's manual.
Keep in mind though that you need to train the dog for the system to properly work - otherwise, the wires are just buried wires around your yard.
After you install the buried wires, power up the radio signal broadcast device, and test the collar's response to wires (you only have to listen to the warning tone, you don't have to wait and get shocked), you can proceed to putting your dog on a leash, snug-fitting the receiver collar on him, and walking him to the boundaries.
You then need to put your dog on a leash and bring it close to the wires - it should be wearing the receiver collar by then.
The proper response is staying away from the marker flags, or the boundary wires, and staying inside the perimeter.