Questions people ask us
Dog fence guides for real decisions.
Every guide here answers a question people phone us about: what it costs, why the transmitter is beeping, whether a system will work for their dog. We install and repair these systems across Richmond and Central Virginia, and we leave the trade-offs in.
Guides by decision
Start with the dog fence question you came here with.
Four clusters are live now, and one sits on our training page until its article series exists. Nothing goes up here until it’s worth reading.
Yard & boundary planning
Why dogs get out of a fenced yard and what closes each escape route, plus how a boundary gets laid out on a real property: burial depth, setback from the road, exclusion zones for pools and gardens, and driveway crossings.
Start here: How to stop a dog getting out of your yard
Read the escape guideAlso here: Planning a boundary layoutComparisons
Weighing pet containment options? Start with a side-by-side.
Each comparison says where the other option fits better, including the cases where the right answer isn’t ours.
All four, plus the full option-by-option table, live on the comparison hub.
Just after a straight answer? Twenty common dog fence questions are answered in one place.
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Where these answers come from
Written from Central Virginia yards.
Every guide here comes from the person who designs these boundaries, buries the wire, and goes back out to repair them. Anything we have not verified yet appears in brackets, so you can see exactly where the gaps are.
Guides answer the general question. We'll answer yours.
Tell us about your dog, your yard, and what you're weighing. You'll get a straight answer, even when that answer is that our system isn't the right fit.