Re: [PyrNet-L] RE: electronic fencing

[Mary-Ellen <Maryellen@imag.net>]

welcome jack  and hello everyone  i am a new pyr owner  as well but i
purchased a 3year old female. she is the sweetest  thing  fitting in well
with our  household.   sometimes  really shy  or  should i say standoffish
towards  people she  doesnt no.  but   comes   around  once she  gets to no
them.  is  this  a breed  trait?  or is it just the  dog.  talk  to u all
again 
have  a nice day maryellen


At 08:34 AM 6/9/99 -0500, you wrote:
>	I also am new to Pyranees.  I have a 9 week old bitch (although I
>have helped a friend raise hers up to 15 months old), but I am an old hand
>at escape artists.  My Samoyed could climb most chain link fences.  The
>first problem I see with the electronic fence is that it works from both
>directions.  Once out, they get beeped/shocked when trying to come back in.
>
>
>	My solution was an electric fence.  Now, don't get riled, it is
>really quite humane.  To begin with, it is visible. . . all the time. . .
>even when it is off.  It will not hurt them.  (take that back, having
>touched it a few times myself - it hurts like mad, but will not cause tissue
>damage.)  And they very quickly learn to leave it alone.  
>
>	Don't bother with the "doggy" fences.  My sammy didn't lift his leg
>on it, but he had no respect for it at all.  I called the vet (Dr. Wolf) and
>she laughed and said, "No, no, no.  Snowball doesn't qualify as 'dogs and
>small animals'.  You need a regular stock charger."  Even that wouldn't faze
>him if he could duck his head and take the wire on his mane.  (You can grab
>a hot wire with leather gloves, and there simply was too much hair for any
>contact at all.)  It took about an hour for him to learn.  He would touch it
>and get bit, fall back and bark at it a couple minutes, touch it and get bit
>again, and bark some more.  This taught him that it would bite him every
>time.  Then he tried a couple of different places, and this taught him that
>it would bite him everywhere he touched it.  That was the end of it.  (other
>than fine tuning the height of the lower wire to keep him from digging his
>way under it.)  After about two weeks, the charger was seldom turned on, and
>it kept him in the yard and out of danger (and me from having to pay any
>more tickets).
>
>	My new pup is La Belle des Montagne d'Amarillo (Belle of the
>Amarillo Mountains) and rules the house (except for the cats) already.  Good
>luck to us both.
>
>	Jack Mowery
>	And Belle, and Saavik, and Ragged and Sugarcube
>	>
>	hi laura  
>
>	i just  wanted to say hi to everyone  as  i am also a new pyr
>owner.  dont
>	 no  much about  electronic fencing  but  a  six  foot high  wire
>fence
>	works  really well   LOL.
>
>	congrats to all of  u  who  rescued that  pyr  cross. what  a  great
>thing
>	to do.
>
>	talk to u all soon
>	maryellen
>
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