Maddie’s electronic dog containment story, “Stay Home Doggie”, is a story that Maddie’s mom and Randy wanted to share with everyone.

Maddie is a fun loving Labrador mix. When the neighbor’s two Jack Russells come running by she is just as likely to follow them across town as she is to chase a squirrel down the road. For new mother Carrie, in Burgaw North Carolina, this just wouldn’t work anymore.

“Before the baby, when I had the time to keep an eye on her, I would let Maddie roam the yard at the old house unattended.” Carrie confesses. “That was the country life, and there weren’t a lot of homes out there. But now we’ve move to this new development, and with the little one I just can’t take the chance that she’d get away from me, destroy the neighbor’s gardens, or get hit by a speeding car.”

Carrie decided she didn’t want to ruin the view of her beautiful gardens and that of the neighbors’ homes, so a tradition fence was ruled out. “Besides, Maddie loves to dig; she’d just go under it!” She went with a CONTAIN-A-PET electronic fence for dogs which is a wire antennae buried  3” underground the boundaries of her property; attached to a  radio transmitter installed on her porch. A digital broadcast radio signal is carried around the property forming the electronic fence. Maddie wears an electronic collar with an ultra light weight radio receiver (1.1 ounces) that picks up the broadcast and warns her if she gets too close to the boundaries with a tone/correction.

The dog was professionally trained by Randy Larrow, the local CONTAIN-A-PET fence dealer, who is also a certified dog obedience trainer. In fact, all their dealers are required to undergo professional training before being eligible for a dealership. Many were already professionals in the pet industry. After using the 5-6 day unique fence training method only CONTAIN-A-PET dealers employ, Randy returned to evaluated Maddie to determine if she was ready to wear the correction collar for the first time.

When the dog gets too close to the buried wire, a tone/correction on her electronic collar warns Maddie to retreat to the safety of her own yard. “After our 5 day no-collar training, most dogs learn their new territories…even without wearing the collar”, says Mr. Larrow. “The mild sting which certainly doesn’t harm the pet, is there as a constant deterrent, like a guardian to keep the dog safe from traffic, spilled chemicals and other hazards out there.” The exact intensity may be adjusted to your dog’s breed, temperament, and skin sensitivity, as well as to whether the pet is long or short haired.

Maddie was running towards the neighbors Jack Russells the other day,” Carrie says. She got to the border and screeched on her brakes. That’s when I knew the dog fence would work.”

Randy provides pet fence solutions from Burgaw all the way along the coast to the South Carolina border.  If you are in Wallace, Burgaw, Wilmington all the way down to Calabash and need a fence for your pet, call him.  The electronic pet containment estimate is free and you will probably learn something about your pet you did not know before.