How DogWatch® is Installed in your Yard
A heavy gauge wire (antenna) is buried in the ground around the entire perimeter of your property. An FM Radio Transmitter is also installed in an appropriate location (garage, basement, etc.). Additionally, (exclusively with DogWatch), BOTH External and Internal Lightning Protection is installed to provide maximum protection to your home wiring system.
The perimeter (boundary) wire can be completely customized to your preference and specific requirement(s). The following are a few illustrations of some possible boundary wire installation configurations:
Basic Perimeter System
This depicts the standard/typical approach to hidden fence layout and design. The wire is installed at the property boundary in order to maximize the yard space available to your pet. Additionally, any combination of optional Garden-Pool-FlowerBed loops can be installed inside the hidden fence boundary to protect any area(s) that you wish...
Hour Glass Configuration
By installing the fence wire up against the building on both sides of your property this configuration "pinches" your yard creating two separate hidden fence zones, Front-Yard vs. Back-Yard. The advantage of this allows you to effectively manage your pet, controlling when he/she is "allowed" in the front yard (or back yard)...
Banana Loop Option
This installation option will create a hidden fence boundary along 1, 2, or 3 sides of your property. This is best applied in situations where traditional (above ground) fencing is available on the property as a "partial" yard boundary. The advantage of this is not to take away yard space from your pet within an already "tightly" contained area...
How DogWatch® Keeps Your Pet Safe
DogWatch® Hidden Fences are safe for your pet as well as completely effective. Veterinarians, pet professionals and pet trainers all over the world own and recommend DogWatch® Hidden Fence pet containment systems.
Through an easy training process, your pet learns to identify and stay within your individually-designed pet containment area...
Your pet learns to respond to an audible signal, a "beep" that comes from his/her receiver-collar...
If your pet moves beyond the audible signal he/she receives a mild correction from the receiver-collar. Most dogs quickly learn to respond to the audible warning signal when they get too close to the boundary.
How DogWatch® Protects Your Home
DogWatch® is the ONLY brand of Hidden Pet Fence that installs external Lightning Protection, designed to protect your home.
Lightning is the most violent and random force on the earth. If it strikes the ground anywhere near your property the energy will naturally attract to the copper (in-ground) fence wire. When it does, the lightning will follow along the wire to the location where it enters your home. If effective external Lightning Protection is not installed at this location to divert the Lightning back into the earth (i.e. grounding), it will proceed into your home electrical system and severely damage it.
Other brands of Hidden Pet Fencing "claim" to offer Lightning Protection as part of their solution. What the smart buyer should know is that it's easy to state this claim, but quite another matter to delivery it. Don't be misled...
External Lightning Protection requires a commercial grade Surge Protector to be mounted on the outside surface of your home. This device serves as the basis of the protection. Without it, there is NO Lightning Protection...
The DogWatch® Surge Protector is a "junction box" that connects together the Boundary Wire, the Fence-System Wiring, and the Grounding Rod. If these electrical connections are not made outside of your home, it is NOT properly protected..
DogWatch® is the ONLY brand of Hidden Pet Fence that drives eight feet of galvanized steel into the ground to protect your home. If a proper Grounding Rod is not installed, the fence is not grounded and there is NO Lightning Protection...
DogWatch® doesn't just claim to have External Lightning Protection
We deliver it!
The Truth about Digital Modulation
Certain Hidden Fence companies advertise their products as offering DM, or “Digital Modulation”. They describe this as the most modern and up-to-date radio transmission technology for Hidden Fence systems. The “next generation” that is newer & better than even FM radio. The educated customer needs to be informed that this is nothing more than marketing hype on the part of these organizations. Don’t be misled…
Digital Modulation (DM) is a radio signal processing technology used to send and receive information over FM (Frequency Modulation), or AM (Amplitude Modulation) radio waves. It's commonly used today in almost any device that performs some type of communication. Everything from cell phones to Hidden Fences function by sending "digitally modulated" signals over an FM or AM radio band. Although DM is based on AM/FM radio technology, it is NOT a next generation replacement for it. Rather...
Digital Modulation is the "digital" form of AM/FM radio.
Everyone is familiar with the differences between AM and FM radio. It’s widely known that FM signals are far more clear and secure than AM signals. This is why FM music plays over the radio with no static (at all...) and fire/police departments, air traffic controllers, etc. all communicate exclusively over FM channels. Bottom line; digital FM radio is superior to digital AM.
When applied to a Hidden Fence system, digital AM based systems are constantly subjected to interference inherent to that technology. The end result is a digital AM system that's prone to "misfire", shocking your pet indiscriminately. This can lead to a confused and frightened animal – a very bad thing. A digital FM Hidden Fence system doesn’t respond to radio wave interference and therefore is safest for your pet.
The reason certain Hidden Fence companies make a big deal about offering Digital Modulation is because their products are actually AM radio based.
Since digital AM radio is inferior to digital FM, these companies are forced to use marketing hype in an attempt to compete against the ONLY Hidden Fence company in the entire industry that offers an FM radio based product; DogWatch®. By drawing attention to a commonly applied technology (DM) and making it “sound” like an advancement that differentiates their product, these companies are attempting to divert attention away from their greatest weakness; an AM radio based product.
Fortunately, an educated customer will see right through this. DM is NOT a next generation, "advanced" radio technology being offered by specific Hidden Fence companies.