How wide is the system boundary?
In-ground
With in-ground systems you can adjust the width of the boundary from a few inches to over 10 feet wide on either side of the boundary wire. You will want to set the boundary at least three feet wide. Much narrower than that makes it hard to train the dog.
Wireless
There is no real boundary width for wireless systems. The boundary extends infinitely beyond the boundary circle.
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I just purchased the inotek 4100 and in reading the manual it says that you should have at least 8 to 10 foot wide boundary. I don’t understand I thought you could set the boundary for 1 to 3 feet and that would be sufficient for training. I don’t have a great deal of space between my house and the neighbors property line. They gave me permission to put the wire in there yard which wil give me about 4 feet to work with after the boundary line, to the house steps. Will this work and can i set this for 3 feet wide boundary?
ADMIN – Hi Dino,
You can set the boundary width as wide or narrowly as you like, but for training purposes you want it to be at least 3 feet on either side of the boundary wire. When planning narrow sections, you also need another 3 feet or so of buffer space – the dog will not want to go within 3 feet of the boundary out of caution. So I would at a minimum bury the wire 7+ feet away from the side of any house. Of course ideally a wider boundary and bigger buffer space would be nice, but that is around the minimum before you start compromising the ability to train the dogs too much.