Underground Electric Dog Fence Premium - Standard Dog Fence System for Easy Setup and Superior Longevity and Continued Reliable Pet Safety - 1 Dog | 500 Feet Standard Dog Fence Wire

I'm one to research the heck out of things, and I narrowed my wired dog fence system down to two and chose this. Two weeks later I couldn't be more pleased. I wanted smallest collar unit to be least cumbersome to my dog, yet durable and most features and level of settings. I went with pro grade option and 1,000' of cable. Was surprised when that came on just one spool- great, no splice needed in middle of run! Also it doesn't say it, but it *does* come with a surge protector, which otherwise costs about $25. I rented EZ Trencher to lay cable but that was tough in soggy lawn- kept clogging with mud. Tears up the lawn a bit. You'll have this regardless of fence system you buy of course. But following the training plan and having a system with 7 levels of "correction" and a beep-only mode allowed me to have my dog fully trained in less than a week. We did the beep-only training for 3 full days, emphasizing the praise when running back away from wire. I was careful to try to avoid her approaching the line gradually from parallel, and rather tried to have her approach perpendicularly so she'd know exactly where the "bad" place was and to turn 180 deg back from it. On day 4 I turned the collar to shock, I mean correction, level 3. She's a stubborn but smart little 45 lb pit bull mix so I wasn't sure that would be enough, but didn't want to overdue it either. I first tested it on my arm and was surprised that it was a very low level shock, like a tickle. (Nothing like putting your finger in a light socket, that's for sure.). So I put collar on dog and eventually she wandered close to the line, and I was shocked when she was shocked and let out a loud yelp while jumping a couple feet in the air! Geez I felt really bad, honestly, but hoped that was a major learning point (which it was!) and I proceeded to reprogram the collar down to lowest correction setting of 1. We then did a few days of training still on a long leash and if she got too close she'd jump back as soon as the unit beeped. On day 8 I wasn't thinking and didn't notice that another family member took the collar off her, and took her out on long leash. She saw deer and bolted at them, ripping leash out of my hand. But she stopped right before the flagged, and just barked and whined at the deer 30' away. Then is when I knew this is really working, and I started off-leash training the next day. I'm now at day 11 in total which includes 3-4 days of off-leash and it's going great so far. No breaches, even when barreling full speed to the line with temptations of more deer, squirrels, neighbors and dogs. She has hound mixed in and a very strong prey drive so frankly I'm shocked this is working so well. So far so good! Units works exactly as reported. Default range from wire (set to 10) activates the collar precisely 5' from the wire thru my entire 750' run. Wire held up great- had no breaks even with the trencher often putting stress on the wire. I think the instructions are very good. I did not need to call their support line for anything. But one that that was confusing me for a while was the listing of the 3.different levels of dogs (timid, active, and I think hyper) and then the various shock level setting under each of those, but how do you select 'active" for instance. Eventually I noticed that "active" was written on my box's packaging label, so those are how the systems come and luckily the active one was the proper one for my size/type dog. So hopefully there's no letdown with the equipment or my dog starts breaching the fence. If anything like that happens I'll update this review, but right now I'm extremely please that I selected the Extreme brand dog fence. And bonus of made in USA. Thanks. ***Update 4 months later*** Happy to report the system has continued to work great and the collar battery was still working after 4 full months. (but I could hear that the beep was weaker when I tested the collar today, so I'm replacing the battery now just to be safe. I hope the replacements last as long as the original!) My dog only breached the fence once in the 4 months, and that was shortly after installing it, when I think she "forgot" after seeing one of her dog friends being walked down the street. Hasn't left the yard since which is really impressive being the daily teasings she has of neighborhood dogs, deer, etc. Great that she can tear around our acre of yard freely, and we can take her less frequently to the dog park for exercise. Looking forward to the warmer weather and her hanging out with us on the patio without needing to be leashed. Happy customer, happy dog.

I did a lot of research before purchasing an underground fence. Based on the reviews and that fact that we wanted to run the wire through 3/4 acre of woods - we wanted the 14 gauge wire and with this product we didn't have to purchase anything separately. The product was shipped promptly and arrived ahead on Friday instead of Monday. I know other reviews said it didn't come with instructions but ours did. With both installation and training instructions. We spent the day Saturday running the wire and placing the flags. The spool of wire unrolled easily. I did have to get more landscape staple as so much of the wire is in the woods, and I bought more flags as well so the woods area limit is clearly shown. We wanted a backyard only solution and didn't want to double the wire so we ended up running the wire up the downspout to the roof with zip ties, along the ridge of the roof (where the ridge vent is) and back down the other end of the house to the other downspout. It was a solution I found online and it worked perfectly. She can still get out of the house and has access only to the backyard. The installation went very smoothly (although I do HATE when my husband is on the roof!) and tested successfully on the first try. Our dog is a rescue - 3 year old female border collie, greyhound, lab mix. She's extremely fast and loves to chase squirrels, rabbits and anything else that moves. In addition, there is a den of fox across the street and they are always hunting in the woods behind our house. She would constantly take off and go through the woods into various neighbors yards chasing things. I was very concerned that she would just run right through the electric fence - while the training documentation that came with it is pretty good - I called their customer service department for advice. Our dog had a very bad experience with an electric fence as a pup and we were told by the previous owner that she refused to go in the backyard so they couldn't use it. The man I spoke with was very knowledgeable and helpful. We talked through the training steps and he was so helpful and spent a long time discussing with me our dogs temperament, my concerns about her breaching and the various steps I should take if that happened. Well, it couldn't have gone better! It only took 3 days to train her. She obviously remembered having the electric fence from before - so that may have helped. We used lots of treats and playing and encouragement to make sure she understood before we tried it off leash. She ran through 3 times over the 3 days and we backed up the training with treats playing and encouragement each time. Ultimately we only had to set it on the second to lowest setting. It's been a few weeks now and she's hasn't breached once since the first 3 days. In the ultimate test, last night I let her out before bed and the fox appeared in the next yard over - barking and trying to coax her to him and away from the kits who were out with him. I was sure she would run through but she stopped short the of wire and just barked for a bit and then came back to me. She got plenty of treats and praise for being so good! It's wonderful to be able to let her out and roam in her 3/4 acre zone without fear of her taking off like a shot. Highly recommend. This product and their customer service is excellent! UPDATE May 2020: Still LOVE my Extreme fence. It has been perfect for 2 years. Then I did notice that the receiver on her collar seemed to be behaving a little strangely. Couldn't be sure there was actually an issue. She breached one day - which she NEVER does so I wondered if it was not beeping. Then she was on the deck and yelped like she got zapped even through she was nowhere near the edge. Then it happened again a week later so I was worried it might be something faulty in the receiver. I called customer service and even though we couldn't determine if it was actually an issue with the receiver, they immediately sent me a new receiver at no cost! They were very friendly and helpful. Highly recommend!

I have about 1 acre and my dog was trained in less than 2 weeks. I didn't even follow the training advice perfectly. My dog is scared of a lot of things anyways, so a few very light corrections (she didn't yelp at all, just quickly backed away from the fence line), she understood her boundaries. Just the other day there was another dog near the fence and she bolted at it like she was going to cross the boundary but she didn't! This system is such a good value as compared to the professional installs. Everything is well made and well documented. Of course, it's also a lot of work getting the wire underground. My advice is to use a lawn edger to open up a small slit for the standard (not professional) grade wire that only needs to be buried ~1 inch. You can use a notched stick or even your finger tips to shove the wire into the slit, although sometimes I had to use a pick mattock to open the earth a bit more where the edger didn't fare well. UPDATE 10/01/2019: Had to replace the collar battery. I took out the original blue battery and tried to figure out how to replace it, as there were no clear markings on it for reordering. Found one battery on amazon that looked correct, just received it today and nope, too big. What is going on?! Well, looks like the original blue battery was actually 4 LR44 coin cells stacked on top of each other and wrapped in blue plastic! It's taken a while to figure this out, now I'm going to try loose LR44 cells and stack them on top of each other. Hope it works, my dog is starting to test the boundary as my original battery is long dead... I'm knocking the stars down to 4, because I think the company should clearly mark on the blue battery pack something that makes sense for reordering!

We bought the pro system for our 5.5 acre acreage. We live beside a main road with a fair bit of traffic and were worried about our dog, a husky cross, running off or getting hit by a vehicle driving by. We have nothing but great things to say about the system itself and the support this company provides! Installation was quite easy, though abit time consuming because of the larger perimeter, and training of our dog went very well due to the provided instructions and support from the company. We love the fact that it is manufactured in the US and the ease of getting in touch with someone if we had any questions. They were always readily available and eager to help. They even sent us a replacement collar, which we chose to upgrade to the stubborn, for the cost difference from the original one we had purchased, after our dog “accidentally” chewed it! Melissa was very friendly and helpful! ! Our dog completely respects the warnings from the collar and we feel relieved that we don’t have to constantly worry about him now when he is outside and out of sight. We absolutely recommend this company and their products and are so thankful we invested in their system! Thank you Extreme Dog Fence for the peace of mind for our furry family member!

This product works 100% as it's designed to work. Comes with easy to follow installation instructions and full training instructions. I have a Red Nose Pitbull, she is not an aggressive dog but she all muscles and full of energy. When the installation was complete I thourghly read the step by step training instructions. I took the time and followed them to a tee. It wasn't long before she was running free on the property and staying within her boundaries. This is a fantastic commercial grade product and a great value for the money.

I’m very pleased with this product. It’s terrific, easy to install and hook up and works very well. What really makes this product worth 5stars is the amazing customer service. I called to get help when first connecting the collar and it was so positive. Recently I experienced an issue with a defective brand new battery and as such wasn’t able to have our husky out roaming. Reached out to the live chat and was helped immediately by I believe Melissa. So was quick and immediately understood that a brand new battery should work out of the box and proceeded to send me replacements no questions asked. Incredible!! This is how customer service should be handled with all companies.

The batteries only last a month and tge only place to get them is from extreme dog fence themselves. My dog has no problem leaving the perimeter.

It was easy to install and link the collar to the control panel. After only 1 day my dog was avoiding the electric fence and not leaving the yard