No they don’t work. I won’t adopt a dog to anyone that uses one. Get a proper physical fence or walk your dog on a leash.

I got an Invisible Fence (that was the brand) professionally installed on our acre of hard-to-fence-conventionally wooded land years ago. It has worked well for our dogs (a vizsla, an Australian shepherd, an English cocker spaniel, and a corgi). They learned where the boundaries were within about fifteen minutes of being introduced to the fence, and maybe got one shock each. The fence isn’t constantly shocking the dogs, because they just stay within the boundaries, so it isn’t cruel. We live in a rural area, on a road without much traffic; I’m not sure I would trust an invisible fence next to a busy highway, because a dog will run through it if there’s something highly enticing on the other side. Also, we don’t need to worry about aggressive strange dogs coming onto our property–in other words, we don’t need a fence to protect our dogs. And I’ve heard that they don’t work with some breeds, e.g. greyhounds.

The main disadvantage to an invisible fence is that (because it’s invisible, duh) it’s hard to notice when it isn’t operative. Ours tends to short out during bad lightning storms–the installation company replaces the broken piece for free, but you need to 1) notice that the fence isn’t working, 2) wiggle into the crawl space to unscrew the fried part, and 3) take it into the company headquarters, or else pay for a service call.

I do like them nor do trust them. Many dogs learn that it is one shock then they are free. Once they learn that it is over with. One of my friends had a collar on the dogs neck and waist and the dog continued to go thru it. It depends on your dog a great deal to. If it is timid, no urge to run, you maybe okay. But several of my friends put them in and ending up putting a fence up. I trust an actual fence and find them more reliable and safe.

You can watch humans test those on YouTube. There is one guy that uses it and he crawls back into the yard as fast as he can so I guess that it does serve its purpose. It is pretty funny until you realize that your dog can’t tell you that it hurts like hell.

It didn’t work for my dogs, but i have seen it work for my friends dogs. It is all in the way you train it.

they do work, but if you have a stubborn dog that’s like to get out he/she will eventually go right thru the shock!! the best thing is a stake and a long lead, just put it in a clear spot so the dog doesn’t get tangled, that’s what i had to do, my dog is like Houdini, he gets out of everything!!!!

If a dog wants to go out– he will. Sad situation in neighborhood. Young healthy Dalmatian darted thru invisible fence after a rabbit. Hit and severely hurt by caring neighbor. Had to put dog down. Two families devastated. ‘Attractive’ solution, not worth the pain of a lost pet.

Yes I have tried them and they are amazing….they work so good. I love them. I spent 3000.00 on a chain link fence for my dog and it just dug out bought a invisiable fence for 120.00 from Wal-mart put it up and the dog stays in. First it beeps then if the dog goes through it does give a little shock you can start off with a little shock or increase it for bigger shocks for bigger more stubborn dogs. Now all I have to worry about is the dog next door is digging in my fence lol

You are going to get allot of negative answer on here, but it all depends on the dog. My dogs do great with it, but some breeds like the sighthounds should never….

It works great for my moms dog but they had someone come out to train the dog so he didn’t have to learn by trial and error and put up white flags around the boundary for a long time. They have a lot of land for the dog to run around on but he never goes near his boundaries