[selzer]

All of my dogs are well trained without any type of correction collar. I can take them to parks and run them off-lead. Their recall is excellent. I have called them off of actively chasing rabbits, and they have complied, no problem.

If I had a dog that could not be called off, prey drive too high to listen to my recall, I would not give them the opportunity to run after something in the road. That is simple.

As for my solar powered fence that is connected to my back gate, I have been zapped by it numerous times. The dogs stay away from it. But it is not there for when I am with them. It is there in the event that I did not latch a kennel gate properly and my dog is now in the yard. They stay away from my fences and my gates. It is a last defence agaist the possibilty that one of my dogs might get out and running around loose in my neighborhood can easily get a dog killed by farmers, hunters, and cars in the roadway. It has nothing whatsoever to do with training the dog. It has to do with containing the dog when you are not home to supervise.

An e-fence or a cattle fence is not how I am containing my dogs, they are contained in kennels. Only if they got out of a kennel would they ever be in my fenced area. This is fenced around with visible fencing that keep out coyotes and raccoons. The weak point is the gate. And that is where I have the added solar wire.

I am an electrical engineer and know about Alternating Current and Direct Current, I have been zapped with both times more times than I want to think about. And I know why and how each is dangerous. I may just have a little more understanding of this than the knowledgeable Lou Castle. There have probably been more deaths due to stun guns run from batteries, than from electric fences, but whatever.

Perhaps the Knowledgeable Lou is not trying to convert, and not trying to annoy, but I think he should stop suggesting that MY dogs are not trained, because MY dogs ARE trained, and have been trained without the use of his nasty little gadgets.