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invisible fence

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Question
I have a Labrador husky breed that tries to escape the back yard if I leave him out there alone for more than a few minutes. there is absolutely nothing that can contain him.I am no kidding on that one. he can open any kennel (we bought several), open the back door and jump the fence easily. if I tie him up outside with a cable he can slip out of his full body harness and yesterday i tightened the harness so he just unscrewed the locking carabineer that was holding the cable to the harness. thats something that should be literally impossible if you don't have thumbs
   I just got an invisible fence system to try to get that to work. I don't understand how everyone is running the wire across the driveway. its a paved driveway so the only option that i see is laying the wire directly on the driveway, where it might get damaged by cars or by running it though my drainage pipe that goes under the driveway and probably reducing the radio signal and subjecting it to floating debree. got any suggestions? if you don't have any advice on this can you forward it to someone who does?

Answer
most inivisible fences are ot meant to be run outside of a grassy area. You can use a small diameter PVC pipe and "drill" it just under the concrete for your wire. If you have expansion cracks across the drive, put the wire in the crack, then use liquid concrete (bottle from the hardware store) or asphalt repair liquid to cover the wire and hold it in place. You will need to recover the wire after every winter as cracks will form in the shallow crease.

regards,

henry ruhwiedel
www.dogkennel.org