January 6, 2020 • 15 mins
Murphy & Jodi think they FINALLY found a way to keep their new dog IN the yard, no digging! 😮🙏🐶❤
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to another Murphy Sami Jody after the show podcast.
I suppose this would be the first one for twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
The beginning of a century.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
No, a decade. Yeah, that's not it's the beginning of it.
I know.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We don't count from zero, we count from one. I
get it.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I'm still you know, and that's not what this podcast
is about. But I'm still confused because at two thousand,
that was the beginning of the new century. So you know,
it wasn't the end. Everybody didn't say it was. Yeah,
it wasn't the end. I thought it was the end.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It was.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I mean, maybe I'm getting hung up on the y
two k thing, but it seemed to me that nineteen
ninety nine was the end of the last time.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Maybe it's a matter of opinion, and so some of
us will believe it's new now and some of us
will believe it's new next year. It doesn't matter. We
got to tell you about our mark.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
It really doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Still twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Here's the thing. I think we've had a problem with
our newest adopted dog getting out of our yard and
digging and going, and we had a lot of feedback,
you know, from friends and others saying, heyy, social media
is what you should try. Right, So before we get
to the Lela right.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, my blue pity Laila. She's so strong, and I
honestly do think a lot of people were like, what
do you think it is? Is it social anxiety? I'm like,
separation anxiety. Yes, I think she wants to get to
us when we leave. However, knowing that still doesn't keep
her from eating the fence.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Well, before we get to the solution, I know it's
not social anxiety. It's it's called the dog next door.
That's what she said. It has nothing to do with anxiety.
It's that we have, you know, dogs on either side,
and the neighbors are great, but you know, dogs are
curious when they can't see each other. They want to
get to each other. And I don't even think it's
necessarily a bad thing. They're not trying to get to
(01:40):
each other to destroy the other dog.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
They're just not a snack next door, say dog next door.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, they just want their pack animals.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
They want to one of My mind is over there
and I need to smell it.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Right, And for whatever reason, she Leila is much more
about getting there than any of our other dogs.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Or others just sort of wish that they could get
there and walk around and bark. She starts moving things physically,
and we have we had a fence post that was
completely the board and bolt ripped off by Layla. Lord Like,
she is a physical dog. She wants something, she physically
tries to get it.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
But here's the thing. And when you know I was
able to put those boards back on the fence and
they were not ripped off by mouth or teeth, it's
because she was able to dig, you know, dig and
wedge herself and so in the process of wedging herself
into the hole, she popped the board. Wow, it's not
there would be teeth marks on the board if it
had been.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
She also has a big scratch along her side now
that may be there forever. It's like, really, Laylah she
has On Christmas morning she came into the house and
it was like, what's this big line scratched down her side?
And it's getting better now, but it's like it's going
to be there. But that's your mark of trying to
get to the dog next door. The other dogs don't
talk to her, like, hey, just give it up anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Now, I wish they did. That would make the solution
a lot easier.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
We had, I'm sorry. We had all kinds of suggestions,
like digging trenches and pouring concrete down so you can't
dig chicken wire. We had cayenne pepper, Like put cayenne
pepper along the fence line. I'm thinking, how often I'm
not gonna have to go Well.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
We tried that once before at the old house, and
it wasn't because of a fence problem. I think we
were trying the cayenne pepper to discourage some other bad
habits that some of our previous dogs had. Okay, and
then it didn't didn't stop anything. In fact, it probably
was a flavor enhancer. But we don't need to go there.
We don't need to go there.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Hey, thanks for the enhancers. This is even better.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Got anymore, Okay, give me a minute. So anyway, you know,
we when we were first on vacation, and this is
even before the family arrived, the problem was starting to
She was digging a ton of holes, and it seemed
like every day on vacation, when I wanted to be
doing other things, the first thing I was doing was
(04:11):
going outside patching holes and figuring out it was just
it was frustrating. The lesson for that for me was
just understanding there is no perfect vacation. I did feel
like Clark Griswold. It's sort of like you know, you know,
you have this big vision of what their days off
are going to be like in your head, and you know,
busy making plans. Life happens right well.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
When you're home, I mean home, life doesn't stop just
because you're not at work. You know, there's always dishes,
there's always garbage, their neighbors, their dogs, their things.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Well, so here was the thing that happened the first
day when we discovered and I don't know how long
that hole actually existed. It happened somewhere on Christmas Day
when all the family activity was going on, so we
didn't see it until later. In fact, was it when
the when our family was finally all gone? Is that
when I called you and said, Jody whinted this happened,
I think. And so I go out there to start
(05:07):
to make the repairs and the dogs are out there
with me. I'm like they're looking at me like, ah, look,
I guess guys, we didn't make it. It didn't work. This
time either. But anyway, they were being fine. They were curious,
but they stayed away from me. So I finally had
all of that done, all of that packed up, even
had to vacuum. Oh that's right. I had to vacuum
because our neighbor had put a pool floating thing, floaty
(05:31):
something to block the hole for her dogs, not a noodle.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Some sort of I don't know what it was because
we saw it destroyed.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
White Pella, that's what I thought. So that was a toy,
and and Layla did try to rip that, you know,
open and play with it. So I had to get
a shop back out to suck all those things up.
Because if you've ever tried to rake styrofoam pellets out
of grass.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It may have been coaching to like a pool seat
or something.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
So pretend that it was snowing.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, the pictures make it look that way. But anyway
I saw. I sucked all that stuff up, was able
to get the boards back on that she had broken,
and then I reinforced that part of the fence line
again your mallet. Yeah, And when I was done with that,
I walked to the other side of the yard and
she had already dug another hole under the fence trying
(06:29):
to get out to the other side of it was
whack a mall. I mean, it's just like, you know,
as soon as I get one thing fixed, the other thing.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Then then Murphy walks into the house. And this is
ultimate top of the line frustration. It's beyond Clark because yeah,
I mean, you don't want to do that all day.
It is whack a mall, and you're the You're the whacker.
Well anyway, you walk in and you're just you're just venting,
and I know that about you. But Phoebe was there
and you were venting about we don't have to rehome her,
(06:57):
and you said that, and Phoebe was like what. So
it's like, no, we're not gonna We're gonna find a solution.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
We All I'd said is I mean, if she keeps
us up, she's a danger her herself. I don't want
to have to rehume her, you.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Know, I know. Anyway, and I say those words around
a kid who loves a dog already, and we both
love her a lot. Anyway, So we have the next Sunday,
we had Randy and Carol and a bunch of friendyr Handy,
Randy and his wife, Carol, and a bunch of friends
over for a little after Christmas coffee on a Sunday morning,
and we were having breakfast and coffee and we were
(07:32):
talking and I was with, you know, Carol and Dana
just like sitting having coffee and the guys were in
the other room talking about God stuff, and I mentioned
about Layla and her getting out, and Carol's like, well,
you know, I bought a pet safe thing for our
dog and we're not using it at all. It's like
one of those electric fences. She's like, we're not using
it all. Would you like to try it? And I'm
(07:55):
thinking try it without like if if it doesn't work,
we can just give it right back. And she's like sure.
I could not wait to jump out of my seat
and run over to the bar area where you guys
were to say, Oh my god, She's gonna let us
try this. So we did.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah. Now here's the thing. The instructions are very specific.
You have to do training. It's the easiest thing on
the planet to set up, allegedly, because you know you
have a transmitter and you have to set the range
that it works with him because you don't want her
to go near the fence, but you don't want it
to be too restrictive, and you don't want it to
be you know, like where it doesn't go off at all,
(08:33):
and it just so you know, I mean, this one
is humane, Jody and I are. So I was concerned
about that because you have six different settings and you
start with the tone and then you graduate into the static.
And so the good news is here, I'll save this
part and not save this part. So you know, it's
only on level one, and we've never had to go
past level one, which is less than what you would
(08:55):
experience if I shoveled my feet and walked over and
touched to you right now. That static electricity thing that
happens in the room is actually more intense than what
this collar delivery. So she's learned very well. But getting
to that point took another two days because when I
first plugged in the transmitter, it you know, it's the
now she was. The good news is she was able
to give us all the stuff. Uh you know, it
(09:17):
didn't come with it was the manual. Wow. But once
I googled them out right, Uh, so I googled plugged
it in, you know, followed the instructions, but it kept
giving this long tone. And the only thing that I
could find in the you know how they have those
troubleshooting greds and when this happens do this. When there's
one long tone, it says that the transmitter's malfunctioning and
(09:39):
you have to call customer service to get a replacement.
And I'm like, Okay, we didn't.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Even buy this thing. It's a loaner. We had never
been she had never used it. But well, you got
that cleared up quickly after two hours.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Okay, Well it took me two hours on my fourth
day of vacation, you know. But anyway, Yeah, So the
bottom line is we were able to get the circle
to work for the most part. The only problem that
we have is it's not working perfectly yet in the
eating area, which is closer to the house. It goes
(10:12):
off in the area where they're supposed to eat. Well,
that's not going to work.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
No, I've moved. I've been feeding them somewhere else because
I've been feeding them in the mornings. I get up
first over the holidays too, and so I've been feeding
them in the mornings and I just move the feeding
area because I wasn't I do not. She responded so
well to the training, Sam.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
The training is you go out and again it's tone of.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Flags out, yeah and yeah, and so just the tone,
just the sound of the beeping. When she gets near
the flags, she hears beeping and you know, you bring
her back and you reward her like a retreat. And
so we had leftover ham from Christmas is. She had
little Bittie ham treats for getting away from the flags
and it says to do fourteen days of training straight up.
This dog got it three days in. She knows to
(10:54):
stay away if we put her out right now and
have that little collar on her at the lowest possible
and she hears dogs next door, She's not going to
leave the deck. She's going to go yeah, I'm just
gonna sit here and listen.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And she responds to the tone before it ever has
to do the static. So it's like it, I mean,
she's she's really really smart and it's worked well. What's
crazy is and it's fine because everybody has a different circumstance.
It is so difficult to ask opinions from other people
because there's some people like, no, that thing doesn't work.
The first time that she sees a you know, she's
going to go running for you know, if it's a squirrel,
(11:28):
she's gonna go chase it. And so everybody's had different
experiences with how these things work. I guess we're just
lucky different office. She's responded, well, she understands, and at
the moment it's keeping her. You know. Now, of course,
while we're sitting here in the studio, she's probably yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Well. The deal though, is what's also great about this
particular unit that we have. I call it a unit
because that's what it is. I guess if she were
to see a squirrel and couldn't resist and went past
the flags and it was started beeping, and that it
gives that low level of static, it only does it
for like ten seconds, and then it would stop and
she'd probably get out, and then we'd have the neighbors
(12:02):
calling us and all that. But I just feel better
about it than I thought I would. The thought of
a you know, a fence kind of giving them as
bothered me a lot, but it has kept her away
from the fence. We cannot believe it. We haven't even
I feel like it's too good to be true that
I have we haven't even told Carol, Hey, we're gonna
keep it. Let me write to check, you know, let
(12:23):
me send you a Venmo or whatever, because we're gonna
keep it because we're going to use it. Now. The
other dogs we don't have to. Like the other dogs
can go bark all they want to, but they're not
as you know, determined. They're not as determined that they're
not going to be a problem. They just bark at
the name.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Did you try it on yourselves before you?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I didn't know you. I know I didn't. I mean
I've done that before. I mean, remember I've tested a
well they give you this little light and you test
it so that you see. But I didn't. I didn't
want to experience the shock myself this time. I've done
it before and sad. I mean I know that level
one is is kind of just like those statics like
you touch the TV or whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah, everything, well, I don't want to say that yet.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, it is still early on and we have not
been working. You know, we didn't do fourteen days of training.
But when I tell you, she won't go near the
fence now, already really smart and it doesn't mean it
would work this way for anybody. Every dog is different.
You know, there are some dogs that are just not
that smart who may not get it and then they
(13:27):
would hurt themselves. Or and if we have any is
it possible that we would have any transmitter problems now?
Or we're gonna leave it exactly where it is. It's
not going to change, is it.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I don't think so. I mean, we've got to figure
out where the food the food bowls. There's something that's
interfering when you get to that part of the house.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I don't want to confuse her, right.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
And so the signal you can go, what's you can go?
She could go outside, But if she goes to one
one corner of the house and then comes back for
whatever reason, it doesn't respond like it's supposed to fasten.
It doesn't turn off. Now she's experience that herself. That's
it exactly, just so that you know, when I tested
the limits of where it went, that was me walking
(14:06):
out there, you know, on all fours.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Waiting to hear it deep.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Now left in your leg.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
But I mean I held at the level it was
supposed to be so that it doesn't it doesn't beep.
So I mean I think fingers crossed and as as
long as there's not a power failure or something like that,
she's fine.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Well okay, yeah, they're gonna be. We still have to
watch our dog, obviously, and we still want her in
with us as much as possible. The other interesting thing
is I'm glad that it's working and if it is,
and we definitely want to we told Carol will buy
it from her because she bought it and never used it,
and I'm sure she would like, you know, us to
buy it from her. We need to buy it from
her for going to because guess what they just got
(14:46):
a new puppy. Oh they did, Okay, they got a
puppy for their dogs. Well, I don't know. She might
be thinking, well that doesn't work. I might, you know,
take it back.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Okay, do I need to factor and depreciation here as
we're figuring out me because you know, h.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Is a cool effort at all in missed any part
of the show. It all at Murphy Salmon Jody dot
com
Welcome to another Murphy Sami Jody after the show podcast.
I suppose this would be the first one for twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
The beginning of a century.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
No, a decade. Yeah, that's not it's the beginning of it.
I know.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We don't count from zero, we count from one. I
get it.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I'm still you know, and that's not what this podcast
is about. But I'm still confused because at two thousand,
that was the beginning of the new century. So you know,
it wasn't the end. Everybody didn't say it was. Yeah,
it wasn't the end. I thought it was the end.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It was.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I mean, maybe I'm getting hung up on the y
two k thing, but it seemed to me that nineteen
ninety nine was the end of the last time.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Maybe it's a matter of opinion, and so some of
us will believe it's new now and some of us
will believe it's new next year. It doesn't matter. We
got to tell you about our mark.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
It really doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Still twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Here's the thing. I think we've had a problem with
our newest adopted dog getting out of our yard and
digging and going, and we had a lot of feedback,
you know, from friends and others saying, heyy, social media
is what you should try. Right, So before we get
to the Lela right.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, my blue pity Laila. She's so strong, and I
honestly do think a lot of people were like, what
do you think it is? Is it social anxiety? I'm like,
separation anxiety. Yes, I think she wants to get to
us when we leave. However, knowing that still doesn't keep
her from eating the fence.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Well, before we get to the solution, I know it's
not social anxiety. It's it's called the dog next door.
That's what she said. It has nothing to do with anxiety.
It's that we have, you know, dogs on either side,
and the neighbors are great, but you know, dogs are
curious when they can't see each other. They want to
get to each other. And I don't even think it's
necessarily a bad thing. They're not trying to get to
(01:40):
each other to destroy the other dog.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
They're just not a snack next door, say dog next door.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, they just want their pack animals.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
They want to one of My mind is over there
and I need to smell it.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Right, And for whatever reason, she Leila is much more
about getting there than any of our other dogs.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Or others just sort of wish that they could get
there and walk around and bark. She starts moving things physically,
and we have we had a fence post that was
completely the board and bolt ripped off by Layla. Lord Like,
she is a physical dog. She wants something, she physically
tries to get it.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
But here's the thing. And when you know I was
able to put those boards back on the fence and
they were not ripped off by mouth or teeth, it's
because she was able to dig, you know, dig and
wedge herself and so in the process of wedging herself
into the hole, she popped the board. Wow, it's not
there would be teeth marks on the board if it
had been.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
She also has a big scratch along her side now
that may be there forever. It's like, really, Laylah she
has On Christmas morning she came into the house and
it was like, what's this big line scratched down her side?
And it's getting better now, but it's like it's going
to be there. But that's your mark of trying to
get to the dog next door. The other dogs don't
talk to her, like, hey, just give it up anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Now, I wish they did. That would make the solution
a lot easier.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
We had, I'm sorry. We had all kinds of suggestions,
like digging trenches and pouring concrete down so you can't
dig chicken wire. We had cayenne pepper, Like put cayenne
pepper along the fence line. I'm thinking, how often I'm
not gonna have to go Well.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
We tried that once before at the old house, and
it wasn't because of a fence problem. I think we
were trying the cayenne pepper to discourage some other bad
habits that some of our previous dogs had. Okay, and
then it didn't didn't stop anything. In fact, it probably
was a flavor enhancer. But we don't need to go there.
We don't need to go there.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Hey, thanks for the enhancers. This is even better.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Got anymore, Okay, give me a minute. So anyway, you know,
we when we were first on vacation, and this is
even before the family arrived, the problem was starting to
She was digging a ton of holes, and it seemed
like every day on vacation, when I wanted to be
doing other things, the first thing I was doing was
(04:11):
going outside patching holes and figuring out it was just
it was frustrating. The lesson for that for me was
just understanding there is no perfect vacation. I did feel
like Clark Griswold. It's sort of like you know, you know,
you have this big vision of what their days off
are going to be like in your head, and you know,
busy making plans. Life happens right well.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
When you're home, I mean home, life doesn't stop just
because you're not at work. You know, there's always dishes,
there's always garbage, their neighbors, their dogs, their things.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Well, so here was the thing that happened the first
day when we discovered and I don't know how long
that hole actually existed. It happened somewhere on Christmas Day
when all the family activity was going on, so we
didn't see it until later. In fact, was it when
the when our family was finally all gone? Is that
when I called you and said, Jody whinted this happened,
I think. And so I go out there to start
(05:07):
to make the repairs and the dogs are out there
with me. I'm like they're looking at me like, ah, look,
I guess guys, we didn't make it. It didn't work. This
time either. But anyway, they were being fine. They were curious,
but they stayed away from me. So I finally had
all of that done, all of that packed up, even
had to vacuum. Oh that's right. I had to vacuum
because our neighbor had put a pool floating thing, floaty
(05:31):
something to block the hole for her dogs, not a noodle.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Some sort of I don't know what it was because
we saw it destroyed.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
White Pella, that's what I thought. So that was a toy,
and and Layla did try to rip that, you know,
open and play with it. So I had to get
a shop back out to suck all those things up.
Because if you've ever tried to rake styrofoam pellets out
of grass.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It may have been coaching to like a pool seat
or something.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
So pretend that it was snowing.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, the pictures make it look that way. But anyway
I saw. I sucked all that stuff up, was able
to get the boards back on that she had broken,
and then I reinforced that part of the fence line
again your mallet. Yeah, And when I was done with that,
I walked to the other side of the yard and
she had already dug another hole under the fence trying
(06:29):
to get out to the other side of it was
whack a mall. I mean, it's just like, you know,
as soon as I get one thing fixed, the other thing.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Then then Murphy walks into the house. And this is
ultimate top of the line frustration. It's beyond Clark because yeah,
I mean, you don't want to do that all day.
It is whack a mall, and you're the You're the whacker.
Well anyway, you walk in and you're just you're just venting,
and I know that about you. But Phoebe was there
and you were venting about we don't have to rehome her,
(06:57):
and you said that, and Phoebe was like what. So
it's like, no, we're not gonna We're gonna find a solution.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
We All I'd said is I mean, if she keeps
us up, she's a danger her herself. I don't want
to have to rehume her, you.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Know, I know. Anyway, and I say those words around
a kid who loves a dog already, and we both
love her a lot. Anyway, So we have the next Sunday,
we had Randy and Carol and a bunch of friendyr Handy,
Randy and his wife, Carol, and a bunch of friends
over for a little after Christmas coffee on a Sunday morning,
and we were having breakfast and coffee and we were
(07:32):
talking and I was with, you know, Carol and Dana
just like sitting having coffee and the guys were in
the other room talking about God stuff, and I mentioned
about Layla and her getting out, and Carol's like, well,
you know, I bought a pet safe thing for our
dog and we're not using it at all. It's like
one of those electric fences. She's like, we're not using
it all. Would you like to try it? And I'm
(07:55):
thinking try it without like if if it doesn't work,
we can just give it right back. And she's like sure.
I could not wait to jump out of my seat
and run over to the bar area where you guys
were to say, Oh my god, She's gonna let us
try this. So we did.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah. Now here's the thing. The instructions are very specific.
You have to do training. It's the easiest thing on
the planet to set up, allegedly, because you know you
have a transmitter and you have to set the range
that it works with him because you don't want her
to go near the fence, but you don't want it
to be too restrictive, and you don't want it to
be you know, like where it doesn't go off at all,
(08:33):
and it just so you know, I mean, this one
is humane, Jody and I are. So I was concerned
about that because you have six different settings and you
start with the tone and then you graduate into the static.
And so the good news is here, I'll save this
part and not save this part. So you know, it's
only on level one, and we've never had to go
past level one, which is less than what you would
(08:55):
experience if I shoveled my feet and walked over and
touched to you right now. That static electricity thing that
happens in the room is actually more intense than what
this collar delivery. So she's learned very well. But getting
to that point took another two days because when I
first plugged in the transmitter, it you know, it's the
now she was. The good news is she was able
to give us all the stuff. Uh you know, it
(09:17):
didn't come with it was the manual. Wow. But once
I googled them out right, Uh, so I googled plugged
it in, you know, followed the instructions, but it kept
giving this long tone. And the only thing that I
could find in the you know how they have those
troubleshooting greds and when this happens do this. When there's
one long tone, it says that the transmitter's malfunctioning and
(09:39):
you have to call customer service to get a replacement.
And I'm like, Okay, we didn't.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Even buy this thing. It's a loaner. We had never
been she had never used it. But well, you got
that cleared up quickly after two hours.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Okay, Well it took me two hours on my fourth
day of vacation, you know. But anyway, Yeah, So the
bottom line is we were able to get the circle
to work for the most part. The only problem that
we have is it's not working perfectly yet in the
eating area, which is closer to the house. It goes
(10:12):
off in the area where they're supposed to eat. Well,
that's not going to work.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
No, I've moved. I've been feeding them somewhere else because
I've been feeding them in the mornings. I get up
first over the holidays too, and so I've been feeding
them in the mornings and I just move the feeding
area because I wasn't I do not. She responded so
well to the training, Sam.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
The training is you go out and again it's tone of.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Flags out, yeah and yeah, and so just the tone,
just the sound of the beeping. When she gets near
the flags, she hears beeping and you know, you bring
her back and you reward her like a retreat. And
so we had leftover ham from Christmas is. She had
little Bittie ham treats for getting away from the flags
and it says to do fourteen days of training straight up.
This dog got it three days in. She knows to
(10:54):
stay away if we put her out right now and
have that little collar on her at the lowest possible
and she hears dogs next door, She's not going to
leave the deck. She's going to go yeah, I'm just
gonna sit here and listen.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And she responds to the tone before it ever has
to do the static. So it's like it, I mean,
she's she's really really smart and it's worked well. What's
crazy is and it's fine because everybody has a different circumstance.
It is so difficult to ask opinions from other people
because there's some people like, no, that thing doesn't work.
The first time that she sees a you know, she's
going to go running for you know, if it's a squirrel,
(11:28):
she's gonna go chase it. And so everybody's had different
experiences with how these things work. I guess we're just
lucky different office. She's responded, well, she understands, and at
the moment it's keeping her. You know. Now, of course,
while we're sitting here in the studio, she's probably yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Well. The deal though, is what's also great about this
particular unit that we have. I call it a unit
because that's what it is. I guess if she were
to see a squirrel and couldn't resist and went past
the flags and it was started beeping, and that it
gives that low level of static, it only does it
for like ten seconds, and then it would stop and
she'd probably get out, and then we'd have the neighbors
(12:02):
calling us and all that. But I just feel better
about it than I thought I would. The thought of
a you know, a fence kind of giving them as
bothered me a lot, but it has kept her away
from the fence. We cannot believe it. We haven't even
I feel like it's too good to be true that
I have we haven't even told Carol, Hey, we're gonna
keep it. Let me write to check, you know, let
(12:23):
me send you a Venmo or whatever, because we're gonna
keep it because we're going to use it. Now. The
other dogs we don't have to. Like the other dogs
can go bark all they want to, but they're not
as you know, determined. They're not as determined that they're
not going to be a problem. They just bark at
the name.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Did you try it on yourselves before you?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I didn't know you. I know I didn't. I mean
I've done that before. I mean, remember I've tested a
well they give you this little light and you test
it so that you see. But I didn't. I didn't
want to experience the shock myself this time. I've done
it before and sad. I mean I know that level
one is is kind of just like those statics like
you touch the TV or whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah, everything, well, I don't want to say that yet.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, it is still early on and we have not
been working. You know, we didn't do fourteen days of training.
But when I tell you, she won't go near the
fence now, already really smart and it doesn't mean it
would work this way for anybody. Every dog is different.
You know, there are some dogs that are just not
that smart who may not get it and then they
(13:27):
would hurt themselves. Or and if we have any is
it possible that we would have any transmitter problems now?
Or we're gonna leave it exactly where it is. It's
not going to change, is it.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I don't think so. I mean, we've got to figure
out where the food the food bowls. There's something that's
interfering when you get to that part of the house.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I don't want to confuse her, right.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
And so the signal you can go, what's you can go?
She could go outside, But if she goes to one
one corner of the house and then comes back for
whatever reason, it doesn't respond like it's supposed to fasten.
It doesn't turn off. Now she's experience that herself. That's
it exactly, just so that you know, when I tested
the limits of where it went, that was me walking
(14:06):
out there, you know, on all fours.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Waiting to hear it deep.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Now left in your leg.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
But I mean I held at the level it was
supposed to be so that it doesn't it doesn't beep.
So I mean I think fingers crossed and as as
long as there's not a power failure or something like that,
she's fine.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Well okay, yeah, they're gonna be. We still have to
watch our dog, obviously, and we still want her in
with us as much as possible. The other interesting thing
is I'm glad that it's working and if it is,
and we definitely want to we told Carol will buy
it from her because she bought it and never used it,
and I'm sure she would like, you know, us to
buy it from her. We need to buy it from
her for going to because guess what they just got
(14:46):
a new puppy. Oh they did, Okay, they got a
puppy for their dogs. Well, I don't know. She might
be thinking, well that doesn't work. I might, you know,
take it back.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Okay, do I need to factor and depreciation here as
we're figuring out me because you know, h.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Is a cool effort at all in missed any part
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