GPS fi dawgs?

[j-kid]

Ah family memba hav wan crazy dag, whe like tek very long walks by himself.

Anybaddi eva subscribe tuh ah GPS service, or own wan ah di physical tracking units?

Do they really work very good?

[Nanook]

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This is a great question JKid. I went on a little search and see they do make GPS collars for dogs. They look to be around 100.00-300.00 and then require a monthly fee to operate.

link hereso

However...this is my personal take on the subject:

Now, if the dog is wearing this expensive collar, will it help the owner to track the dog dead in the road? The dog could end up poisoned as well as dog-napped by someone who spots him. and decides they want to keep him. All they have to do is remove the collar and done.


One for sure way to ID the dog should he get loose and found by someone, would be to implant a microchip for identification. The first thing a shelter or vet will do is check for a chip.

It happens to the best of us, to have an escapee dog is very trying. I once had a Weimeraner who was a total escape artist. I was very young, so this was decades ago and to this day I am not so sure I would be any more successful at containing that dog now then I was then, he was determined. I even kept a sign on my front doors, warning anyone who might open it, that the big gray ghost was going to make a dash for the outside. Nothing I did worked. Ultimately, in the end, Saul found his way through an opening in a freeway fence and that was the end of him.

[Tulip]

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I have started seeing a commercial recently for a dog GPS tracking service. It seems to work well for that purpose. In addition to tracking, the owner is alerted via email or text if the dog goes outside of a specified area. I'd probably purchase it if I were having that problem.

I have only had one dog who used to get out on the regular. He would climb the fence at night but would be waiting on the porch in the morning for me to let him back in.

[CeaBee]

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there are three dogs in my neighbourhood that are always lounging on the lawns in front of their houses. I'm assume that they have that electric fence thing.

do u think the invisible/electric fence is cruel nannook?

[Nanook]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CeaBee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">there are three dogs in my neighbourhood that are always lounging on the lawns in front of their houses. I'm assume that they have that electric fence thing.

do u think the invisible/electric fence is cruel nannook?

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Ceabee, I think invisible fence is probably a little bit better than no fence but I also think they are stupid. Some dogs actually go the risk and cross the fence anyway. However, even if the dogs that live in the yard and are wearing the collar stay put, the invisible fence does NOTHING to deter stray dogs from entering the yard and all kinds of bad things could happen such as a fight. Big false sense of security, but I can see in some instances where people might be renting, etc...that it would be better than nothing. I wonder if one of those might have saved Saul from roaming, but he was very determined and might have been one who would take the shock in order to roam free.

[Tulip]

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One of my neighbors has a golden retriever and a black lab. The retriever will stay inside the confines of the electronic fence but the lab will just take his jolt and cross over. To make it even worse, he usually gets his collar caught up in some bushes when he gets out, and neighbor has to go find it. I think he said the collars were $90 each time he has to replace one.

We have basically no strays in my area. My current neighborhood is just about the only place I've lived in recent times where dogs are even off the leash. It is a very pet friendly community though and Butterfly has two good dog friends lol.

I would not mind have an e-fence in the front. It does seem like it takes quite a bit of effort to install them and then get train the dog to understand it. Then you have the cases of the dogs who are going to do what they want to do anyway.

[CeaBee]

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i think the fences work for my neighbourhood, because like tulip i have never seen a stray dog around here, and these particular dogs doan look like them have hard aize. The dogs are also not out in the front yard by themselves a lot. I always just used to wonder if the shock dem get from the fence apparatus did well hot.

Never heard of that gps thing for dogs. However if i had a dog that liked to jump fence and the cost was reasonable, I would search for reviews online and consider buying it.

[kia027]

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we have the invisible fence indoors for clancy. There was a bay window he used to jump on - tried all kinds of training.. no success. Invisible fence by the window and front door no more bolting through the door and my window stays clean

[ILP]

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we used an invisible fence for training purposes for out beast. it worked like a charm and we eventually were able to take the collar off and he stayed inside the confines of the yard, as he believed he was going to get shocked.

since moving to texico...though it nu matter that we had the fence and that out beast stayed put. the amount ah loose bad bread dogs round here... kmt

[Suesumba]

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ah, anything can happen to a roaming dog. - also i'm surprised at the number of lost dogs i see on craigslist.

[WitchyOoman]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nanook</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
It happens to the best of us, to have an escapee dog is very trying. I once had a Weimeraner who was a total escape artist. I was very young, so this was decades ago and to this day I am not so sure I would be any more successful at containing that dog now then I was then, he was determined. I even kept a sign on my front doors, warning anyone who might open it, that the big gray ghost was going to make a dash for the outside. Nothing I did worked. Ultimately, in the end, Saul found his way through an opening in a freeway fence and that was the end of him. </div></div>
I too had a hard time, at times, with Midnight: He would break out of the house (literally break through the French door of my kitchen) and trot off for adventures of his own.

He was often spotted in Seven Oaks (the ritzy part of town, on whose fringe I live) in back yards with swimming pools... at the fire house begging for food treats and rides in the damn fire trucks... at the police station begging for rides in the police cars... at the grocery store down the street begging for treats from the owner (a friend of mine)... at the gas station down the street, begging for car rides from people getting gas... It was <span style="font-style: italic">EMBARRASSING</span>!! The damn dog once even begged a ride from the Animal Control officer, Mr Diamond, in the City van!

When Midnight wasn't swimming in somebody else's pool, he was 'bearding' the city officials by coming up to them and begging for rides in their motor vehicles! I tried everything to stop this dog from escaping... but he was a Houdini! At night, when I put him out for the final time (around 11pm), he often ran off with the local stray dog pack - hooligans! - and came home in the morning. But everybody in town loved Midnight, and no one ever fined me (thank God).

Even if GPS collars were available back then... how would it have helped me keep Midnight at home where he belonged?!

Like Nanook says, some dogs are just escape artists, and there's nothing you can do about it.