Rosemarie Molinary
Posted : 4/21/2006 10:42:01 AM
Well, I think we found a solution to our problem. After searching all night Wednesday and Thursday monring, I found a product on Wal-Mart's website. It's called Zone Barriers and it's made by a company called Innotek. The Zone barrier is a fairly new product apparently. But I called all the wal-marts in our area and all of them told me the product was only carried online. Well I couldn't wait until next week to get it because we are going out of town Saturday for the day and Zoe doesn't do well being left indoors all day. I finally called a local Petland store about 20mins from our house and they had the product!
But the Zone is a white disk that reminds me of a smoke detector you would put in your home. It uses batteries so it can be put anywhere! You can set it to protect a diameter of 2 ft to up to 12 ft. It doesn't say anywhere that you can't put it outside. But you set the disk for the diameter you want and then you put a collar that is similar to the electric fence collars on the dog. Whenever the dog gets within the diameter you set the collar starts beeping and gives a slightly uncomfortable stimulation to the dog. They recomend using the zone to keep dogs away from trash cans, baby cribs, furniture, even doorways to entire rooms where you don't want the dog to go. You can also put it by your front door to keep dogs from jumping on people as they come in. But we put the collar on Zoe this morning and I put the disk in a plastic bag to keep it from getting wet! It still worked in from inside the ziplock bag! Zoe won't go anywhere near the gate where she was jumping! It's great! Although she isn't too happy with myself or my husband right now, hopefully this will help cure the problem. We'll see how it works in the long run. But so far twice this morning I have heard her yelping and running back up to the front of the yard and trying to get the collar off. So I know it's working!
You can buy the disk by itself or the collars so you can use the zone in a multiple dog household. You can also set each zone disk to an A or B setting so if one dog is allowed somewhere but another isn't then it will do that. We are seriously thinking about buying a few more over the next few months for our inside peek-a-poo. She likes to jump on the kitchen table when we aren't looking and she is terrible about barking at the door and trying to run out when I leave the house. The kit is only $69.00 and worth every penny so far!
I'll let you all know how it works in a few days! But so far so good! Thanks to everyone for their advice!