Okay, this is long but the truth! I'm having mixed feelings. It works but my dog is terrified to go outside now. Hopefully he will get used to it in a few more days. We did two weeks of training. First week was with the beep. Three problems with beep training. I could not hear the beeps. My dog didn't act like he heard the beeps and also, the perimeter didn't seem to be consistent with flags. Still doesn't. Finally, I have to walk slumped over and very close to my dog to even hear the beep and that didn't always work.
Second week I started using the 1st shock which is number two setting. Still not hearing beeps very well and going slow, we would walk past the flag just a little and I had to subject my dog to the 1st setting of shock just to see when and if he reacted to it. He slightly reacted and thought a bug was biting him but didn't care much as he led me on the leash through the perimeter and into the yard. It didn't seem like it bothered him but kept training to that for the rest of the week. Finally, after two weeks, I let him out alone to see what he would do. He went right through the perimeter again so turned it up to 3. He did cry and freak out but kept going. I think he acted confused and just ran. Well, this dog loves to chase Deer and Birds. Especially AIRPLANES, as he thinks they are giant birds. He is a Pyrenees and Lab mix. He is a sweet dog but has a mind of his own when it comes to chasing these creatures out of our almost two acre yard. Also, he LOVES people and wants to roam the neighborhood while I'm busy inside or gone to work. We live almost half a mile from the highway and he has been reported lately by neighbors that he is getting close to that now, so, here we are with this system!
Another problem I'm having is our house shape is long from side to side. His bathroom spot is to the kitchen side of the house out where no one goes and he has been doing his business over there for 6 years. Now he can't go there. I am playing with the base as to where to move it frequently to find a good perimeter for him.
So now we are in our third week. I have finally had to turn the collar up to 4 since I came home, only to find him missing again. It took me awhile to find him. He was at my father in laws house and wasn't coming when I called him. Finally got him home and turned collar to 5!!! I played ball with him and stayed outside to see what he would do if he happened to cross the barrier. The ball rolled down the hill and he went right after it and got one heck of a shock. He cried and screamed and went crazy! Now he is afraid to go outside. I feel terrible after that reaction. I can't even get him to follow along with a leash because he is so scared. We're having a setback now and I will have to see what to do next. I guess I will try a few more days but this has NOT been easy like everyone reports. My husband thinks it cruel but it's either get used to this and keep working on all settings or get hit on the highway.

I've had my Pointer on the Pet-Safe system for one month. I've waited to review to make sure the system works. I was very skeptical before purchasing because my dog is highly active. Seems ADHD. When let to run free, he will always pick up a scent, and then he's off for the running. Nothing will call him back! I will eventually get a call from the police in the nearby town, or the kennel just up the road. We are on ten acres, semi-rural, just within the city limits. Would love to just let him run. But?? Anyway, the Pet-Safe. I received the system about a month ago and will share my experiences.
Day One: I set up the system, established the perimeter at the maximum range, white flagged..... I then put the Pet-Safe collar (at level 3) on the dog and walked him (his normal lunging from side to side) out to the perimeter. When approaching the perimeter, he would stop and just look around like "What is going on?". I would return to the safe zone and then walk out to another flag at the perimeter. Same thing, "What is going on?". Then return to the safe zone. We did the entire perimeter this way, and then called it a day.
Day Two: I now set the level on the collar to 5. We did the perimeter walk the same way, but this time the collar got his attention and he would initiate the return to safe by himself. We made the entire perimeter with the same results. I decided to take a risk and let him run free, even though it was just day 2. He loved running free, and when nearing the perimeter, he would run back to me and sit there for a moment (while receiving praise and petting). I let him run for another twenty minutes with the same results. We called it a day.
Day Three: I put the collar on him and let him run free. We enjoyed positive results and he never left the perimeter. I let him run for another half hour, then called it a day. I removed the Pet-Safe collar from him and went to turn the collar off. But, what I noticed was that I just now turned it on. Uh-Oh, I had neglected to turn the collar on when I put it on him. But, he had responded as though the collar were active. Wow, was I surprised. Trained by day three!?!
This is a dog that could never be called back if he picked up a scent, which he always did. We now get to run free twice a day (usually), and have never had a failure. A few days ago, I pulled my flat bed trailer around to the back area of the property, well beyond the Pet-Safe perimeter. My dog followed and I wondered what would happen. He followed right along, but at the perimeter he immediately bolted back to the safe zone. Has done wonders for his disposition. I had to be trained too. I now make sure I've viewed the on/off status of the collar.
I would like to comment on the system installation. The instructions mention that the system does not work well if installed near steel. My shop and all my outbuildings are covered with corrugated steel roofing and siding. I had to install this in my shop. Works fine and I'm achieving a consistent perimeter of a 150' radius.

I would like to offer an update to my above review. We are now about six months into the use of the PetSafe system. Nothing has changed from my original review. Stills works great. Not one glitch. My GSH Pointer really loves to run. He looks forward to it every day. There have been times that he's come running back to me on his own, sitting there with an "expression" on his face as if to say "OK, I'm done now". This has really helped with his overall behavior (much less destructive), and my feelings toward my dog have greatly improved.

I have 2 dogs. I have a GSD and a Husky. Both rescues and both are runners. I have tried every training trick in the book to work with them, ending in complete failure. They are good dogs, but they just love to run. We live in a rural area where they will either get shot or hit by a car.

A friend of mine told me about this system. I was hesitant at first bc I've tried other shock systems, and they blew right threw them. I received the system yesterday (2/25/23) and set it up today.

We took each dog out on a leash one at a time. It took a couple tries but after the first outing, each dog learned the boundary and what the beeping means. So much so, we were able to take them both out off leash. They went out to potty and ran straight back to the door. 🤣🤣

So it works well with two thicked headed dogs. Our GSD actual tried to sneak off and hit the boundary and turned right back around. He is our worst runner so the fact that today in three trips he's learned to not try and run off so far has been amazing.

I did have to order a separate collar. I charged them overnight just to be sure. I used the longer prongs, and I did shave a small spot on their necks to make sure they made contact. I do kinda wish the system had a remote capability. We live in a mobile home and our GSD likes to get up underneath our house, so it would be nice to be able to teach him not to do that.

We have the setting set to high/4 (50 ft radius) which gives us some of our front and back yard and the sides of our house with a little bit of bleed into our neighbors yards.

I like the ease of set up and portability. The only draw back in our case is the fact that we live on a half acre lot and they can't really utilize the whole lot bc of how our lot and house is positioned.

But this really does work. I'm considering extending the boundary out further later on when they really learn to not go into our neighbors yards so they can have more run space in the front and/or back yards

I was really hesitant to get an electric fence, because I felt like it was mean, and wouldn't work. And we tried the kind with a wire for our English Setter, which you have to burry and oh my god that was awful. It didn't work at all, and the dumbest part of was that if he went past the boundary it would shock him when he came back! So we returned that awful contraption and had given up. But then we got a husky/German Shepard puppy, and letting them out became impossible. They would run all over the place and get into the neighbors compost, not to mention the the husky hates being indoors and would just whine all day wanting to go out. So we finally decided to try this wireless fence. We live close to a main road and have a lot of neighbors, and with two very energetic dogs that want to be playing outside with each other ALL day, we didn't know what else to do.

I was a little nervous/intimidated when we got the wireless fence in the mail, but the set up was really easy. I plugged in the base and took the collar out. The beeps to let you know when you're getting close to the boundary line and nice and loud and easy to hear, unlike the beeps for the other fence we tried which were so faint you could barely here them at all.

I set the fence up in the middle of winter, so the flags were really hard to see, because of all the snow. I read the whole training manual, but I didn't end up following it. I walked the dogs around their perimeter a couple times on a leash, and then let them explore on their own. I started out using the short prongs and the lowest shock level for the husky puppy (who was 6 or 7 months when we got the fence). He went right through the barrier and didn't seem to feel any correction, so I switched to the long prongs and turned the collar up to mid/high level. He only had to get shocked once. I felt really bad when it happened, and he was scared to go outside alone for a few days after, but we've had the fence system for several months, and he he understands the boundary now, and won't go passed where he hears the beeps. The training situation was similar for our English Setter who is 4. We had to order a second collar for him, because the fence system only comes with one, and the first one we ordered took batteries, instead of the rechargeable one the fence came with, so I had to send that one back for a rechargeable one (because who wants to deal with batteries). So it ended up being a couple weeks before we were able to train the English Setter on the fence also. We were more worried about him, since he's a bird hunting dog, and will take off after birds, and also because the first fence with the wire we had to bury didn't work at all. He has short hair so we did the short prongs on his collar and set it to the mid/high level. He also got shocked once, and for about a week would only hangout in the middle of the backyard, but now he's completely comfortable going outside. The dogs can go out together and play for hours and I don't have to worry about them running off. People will walk by our house with their dogs and our dogs will just sit on the front lawn behind their boundary line and won't go passed. My boyfriend can leave the house in his truck while they're out there and they won't try to follow him. Which really surprised me about the English Setter, because he used to take off after him all the time.

In short, this fence system has been amazing for us. Our dogs are so much happier now that they can go outside and get exercise whenever they want. They get so excited when I put their collars on, because they know it means they get to go outside. I take their collars off when they come inside, and never leave them on overnight, and I haven't noticed any type of irritation from the prongs. The collars last a couple weeks before they need to be charged. I charge them when I see the collar beep red, which only takes a couple hours. I can't recommended this fence system highly enough.

Love the PetSafe Invisible Fence for Stubborn Dogs. So easy to train our Doberman. He loves going out and work off some energy. Contained and safe. Rechargeable Collar saves money on batteries.