miranadobe
Posted : 12/3/2009 9:03:48 PM
poodleOwned
miranadobe
As for Callie's foster's experience, it's clear that someone who allows a dog to be left outside unattended to be tormented by neighbors' children was more than neglectful, and we can all speculate on what else that dog suffered. Thankfully, his fortune changed when he came to be in her care and I hope it turned his life around to a ton of positive experiences!
Look I don't have a whole lot ot offer other than to challenge that notion that a dog is "free" if it has acess to quite large areas of land. I wonder with such an arrangement how the resident wild life will get on, and for some dogs the stress that they might encounter guarding a space that might seem to be very large for them.
I'm confused what one post has to do with the other. My point was the original owners of Callie's foster dog neglected their responsibility to keep their dog from harm - in this case the tormenting neighborhood children. The kids could have teased the dog through a chainlink fence, too - not in the same manner, but potentially to an equally stressful level. Not much to do with how much free space the dog had.
I believe the average efence user discussing the topic here does not have "quite large areas of land" covered with their e-fence. I wonder if some people expect e-fences to be used more similarly to hot fencing, which would enclose such large areas of land, (although the difference btwn the two has been highlighted in this thread and noted that we're exclusively discussing efencing/invisible/underground fencing.) I've mentally ticked off the people I know who use efencing, and 9 out of 11 have less than an acre or two of total property, with less than that granted to the dog's efence.