Comments on: Are Electronic Containment Systems Cruel? http://www.dogfencediy.com Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:02:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Deborah http://www.dogfencediy.com/faqs/cruel/comment-page-1/#comment-7439 Deborah Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:12:14 +0000 http://www.dogfencediy.com/?page_id=1364#comment-7439 I think Golden Retrievers may be prone to cancers. Mine died last year of a tumor at age nine and we did not have an electric fence as he was well behaved and did not need it. I have come across two other Goldens in my travels that also suffered from tumors at a fairly young age. We now have two young Chocolate Labs that require this fence as they would escape and kill my nieghbor's chickens . I love this fence because the dogs learned their boundaries quickly and I do not have to worry about them disturbing my neighbor or getting hit by cars or possibly shot ( we live in the country) My dogs are able to enjoy quite a bit of space when they are outside. Because of the chicken incident I am afraid to leave them out too long ( I am paranoid one dog might bite the collar off the other one) they chewed each others harness off when we first got them but so far everything has been great . I think Golden Retrievers may be prone to cancers. Mine died last year of a tumor at age nine and we did not have an electric fence as he was well behaved and did not need it. I have come across two other Goldens in my travels that also suffered from tumors at a fairly young age. We now have two young Chocolate Labs that require this fence as they would escape and kill my nieghbor’s chickens . I love this fence because the dogs learned their boundaries quickly and I do not have to worry about them disturbing my neighbor or getting hit by cars or possibly shot ( we live in the country) My dogs are able to enjoy quite a bit of space when they are outside. Because of the chicken incident I am afraid to leave them out too long ( I am paranoid one dog might bite the collar off the other one) they chewed each others harness off when we first got them but so far everything has been great .

]]> By: Bill Letourneau http://www.dogfencediy.com/faqs/cruel/comment-page-1/#comment-3675 Bill Letourneau Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:50:26 +0000 http://www.dogfencediy.com/?page_id=1364#comment-3675 My Golden retriever was having Seisures, an MRI showed a golf ball size tumor on his brain. Only 8 years old. Had to put him down. Lived with electric fence on property! ADMIN - Hi Bill, Sorry to hear about your loss. Electric dog fences use extremely weak radio waves, the same waves sent out by AM radio stations. You can listen to the dog fence transmissions with an AM radio and you will notice they are very weak and you can't pick them up at all once you are more than a couple of feet away from the boundary. With the signals so much weaker than even a regular radio station, the systems cannot and do not cause cancer. My Golden retriever was having Seisures, an MRI showed a golf ball size tumor on his brain. Only 8 years old. Had to put him down. Lived with electric fence on property!

ADMIN – Hi Bill,

Sorry to hear about your loss.

Electric dog fences use extremely weak radio waves, the same waves sent out by AM radio stations. You can listen to the dog fence transmissions with an AM radio and you will notice they are very weak and you can’t pick them up at all once you are more than a couple of feet away from the boundary. With the signals so much weaker than even a regular radio station, the systems cannot and do not cause cancer.

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