underground /wireless dog fences

[yellowjacket]

any first hand expeirience? i have a 140lb dog, well behaved but neveer been contained cause we are in the country.
any thoughts he'd do ok with this new(for him) concept? he's 10 years old, fixed, and has brown eyes, if that info helps...
will the standard collar have enough zing to work for him?

he started sucking chicken eggs and i guess thats the doggy equivelent of crack cocaine, so i need to do something, but hes been a great dog and hate to chain him.

finnaly, do the wireless radio types do the same thing but without all the digging?

[blazerbrad]

My uncle has a 200 lb. Mastiff and 150+ lb. St. Bernard with an underground fence and it works fine. Don't know the brand right off hand but they offered different size shockers pending how big the dog and how stubborn. A friend has the wireless transmitter thing that you can set a radius on and it works fine on his Shepard. The advantages are the underground wire can be set up to specific boundaries where as the wireless simply allows a radius of a certain area.

[carwash]

The best underground fence systems are made with black iron pipe... don't waste your time with wire or pvc...

[SixFtUnd]

I have a fence system just the wire type buy would sell it to you cheap if you are interested probably ask $50 for what I have and you would need to buy some more wire so you could set up a system for probably under $100

[itbrokeagain]

Did not work on my Bloodhound. He would stand there and you could see his legs twitching but he just stood there. Figured out if he ran fast enough he could get out. That was with the stubborn dog collar.

[RuffedUpXJ]

Yeah those fences in general some times don't work on a dog. My neighbor's Jack Russel will stand close but to where it only beeps and he will run the battery down and then just walk out once the beepping stops.