Example project • Goochland, Virginia
Separate pool and garden boundaries in Goochland
What a project like this one in Goochland involves: the problem in the yard, how we design the boundary, and how the training goes. This is a worked example rather than one household’s job. The yard is typical of the area, and the method is exactly what we do.
- Dog
- Sadie
- Breed
- Golden retriever, around 60 lb
- Community
- Goochland
- Property type
- Large lot with pool and raised gardens
- Property size
- About 1 acre
The problem
Owners want the dog to have the yard and want two parts of it left alone, typically a pool and a vegetable bed. A single loop around the property does nothing about either, and shutting the dog out of the whole garden to protect one corner of it defeats the point.
The boundary design
A perimeter loop plus interior exclusion zones, so the dog has the run of an acre with the pool surround and the beds set outside the part they can reach. The interior zones are part of the same system rather than a second product.
Training
The interior zones are trained separately and after the perimeter, because they are a different idea to a dog: not the edge of the world, but a place inside it that is not theirs.
Installation
Perimeter first, then the interior loops, all three to five inches down. An acre with two exclusion zones is still normally a single visit.
The result
The dog has the yard, the pool surround and the beds sit outside the area they are trained to, and every zone is on one system the owner can adjust. Installation warranted 30 days; DogWatch warrants the equipment.
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