Customer Reviews for PetSafe ½-Acre Wireless Dog Fence

I absolutely recommend this. If you properly train your dog it works wonders. My dog, Milo, doesn't go anywhere near the boundary on only the medium setting. He's a stubborn german shepherd pitbull mix. So if you're wondering if this works for large breed, yes, yes it does. This is NOT a gps boundary. This is a boundary that is set by an adjustable radius around the main box. Milo is at the point with the boundary that I can leave him outside all day and he'll still be in the yard.

We've had this for almost 3 years now. We have a beagador who is 45 pounds and this product works great. I've never had to worry about him being outside alone. People walk by and of course he barks but he never goes near his end zone, even when the neighborhood cats lay right over the boundary line (they all know his limits by now). We live on the corner of a semi-busy neighborhood too and I feel safe with this.. qs long as he has his collar on he dont knos its off if we lose power. Fully recommend this to EVERYONE! We even bought a random cute collar and transfered the piece to the new collar and still works great!! I was able to get this whole thing done by myself. Super easy!

We’ve had those for a few years now and it ha slept our Siberian Husky out of lots of trouble with the neighbors! She listens so much better and stays around the house. We just recently got another husky and we’re thinking about purchasing another collar but I wasn’t sure if you could have multiple dogs with this system?

We live in the country and have a Setter who can scale 6 foot fences and a 200lb Great Dane who is protective. After a lot of research this was the only product that fit our needs. And it works so well! We learned quickly not to leave the collars too loose, and that our Setter would notice if we let her battery go. To our surprise the signal works inside our 20x40 metal barn :). Our favorite feature is that the dogs can come and go from any door and still be safe inside their fence.

We have owned our system for over 8 years and it has worked great for the 2 dogs we had on it. However, when we added a 3rd collar the added collar went a little crazy beeping erratically even when right next to the system. I've repaired the collars using the steps several times. The new collar, the one that seems to be going crazy the most, has 8 settings vs the other 2s 5 settings. I'm not sure if that is a reason for its acting strangely? The 2nd collar is now beeping erratically though. I'm thinking it's time to replace the whole system and all 3 collars. I love the system and definitely want to say thank you for having it. It definitely keeps my dogs safe and from running. It's worked great for many years and I think we've just worn it out! Definitely getting another system!

I’m so happy with our pod system!! We have 2 pups that encourage each other to wander a bit...and my smaller pup wouldn’t come home. I was so worried we’d end up with the worst news possible, so we tried everything!! Then a friend got us to research this product...best decision I could have ever made for my pups safety. Now my dogs on the other hand hate it...their wanderlust years are far behind them. The days of roaming the streets are over. Which makes me one happy mom. Now the only down fall, is that once a month we have to unplug the pod itself to let it reset. Other wise the pups will get shocked within the perimeter. Other than that, it’s my favorite thing.

If you love your pet do not buy this product. Research suggests a correlation between lymphoma in dogs and wireless collars. I also know from first hand experience. My dog was diagnosed with lymphoma today. He is only 7 years old and has always been in great health. He has been on the "petsafe wireless containment system" for less than a year. His lymph nodes are swollen where the collar used to sit on his neck. Do your pet a favor build a fence it will be worth it in the long run.

I have a Shetland sheep dog, she weighs 24 pounds, and LOVES to run and attempt to heard cars! Lol I couldn’t keep her home because she loved exploring neibors yards, but didn’t want to keep her locked up in a chain length 10x10 kennel so I looked at this for another option. I’ve had it for 6 months now, it only took me 30 minutes to set it up, and it only took her 3 days to figure it out. very much worth the money. Would buy it again if it happened to tear up today. I never have to worry about her now and always feel safe with her outside. ☺️

I have standard poodles and an English springer spaniel on my wireless fence collar system. I have their collars and the box turned all the way up and they still go right through it. For as much as these cost it should do a lot better than it does.

Have used the inground fence for 20 years, and the wireless for the past 5 years, both at home and at our cottage. Would NOT be without it!!! Have 3 dogs on it, and will be adding a new addition shortly.

I purchased two devices over 15 years ago with an additional collar for our property that was too large (would of been too expensive) to build a fence. Since then we have moved and have used the collars and devices on trips, family visits and our new dogs. Unfortunately after 15 years I now need to purchase new collars but the devices are still working. How often can you say anything still works after 15 years nowadays? May be a little expensive but totally worth the money!!!

Transmitter box randomly just stops working correctly...lights up and says it's on but it's NOT so it's NOT RELIABLE. Both collars have brand new batteries and I can walk forever with them in hand but no beeps, vibrate or shock.

We set it up and our dog which is a big one gets alert then just walks right through it. We have it set high and yes we’ve tested with the things that came in the box. I feel like this has been a complete waste of money.

Working as described so far. Have only had for a week. It was easy to set up and adjust range.

Bought this 2 years ago and now it chocks the dogs continuously while they’re sleeping in the house. I reset the modem nothing is near it. Both collars have new batteries. My dogs are tortured by this malfunction will petsafe guarantee this product and replace it? Or will they give me more excuses why it’s my fault somehow?

Love this product- second purchase

The alarm keeps saying the line is broke, we check it and then it stops. Also, my dog runs right through the fence and it doesn’t do anything but in other areas it works great

Works great. Just what we needed.

For the last twenty years I have been using a wired inground fence from Petsafe and it has worked great! It's works great until you get a wire break somewhere and it is almost impossible to find even with a wire break locator. Also it usually happens every time you make plans to go out of town. I bit the bullet and tried one of these and so far it is working great!

Think the shock isn't strong enough to hold a large dog in.

Easy to set up and easy for both our dogs to learn. It has exceeded our expectations!!

No better option out there. easy set up.

This is the second one I’ve ordered that didn’t work properly. Instead of beeping, then vibrating and finally the shock this one just beeped and immediately started shocking….. and kept on shocking for 30 seconds. And yes it was immediately brought back inside the circle.

Absolutely love the versatility of this product. We are able to have it hung up high on the wall so our children can’t mess with it. It was a super easy set up very self-explanatory and my dogs caught on very fast now if they get anywhere near the beeping, they turn right around and they know that they can’t go any further the batteries for the collars have been lasting anywhere from 2 to 3 months and I previously had a pet safe one that was a rechargeable collar. I’d prefer the batteries it’s easier just to replace the battery with living in Navy housing and traveling back-and-forth. It’s really nice to have some thing we can take with us to keep our dogs contained I have a large golden doodle and a medium size Aussie doodle.

After installing it a few weeks ago (we had to Wait for all of the snow to Melt) we started noticing a weird burning smell. I’ve had everyone in the house walking around to find what was burning and finally we figured out it was the unit. I messaged Home Depot and they told me to return in store, I went in store and was told they don’t accept online returns. Next I’ll have to contact the company but what a pain !!!

Works great gets an excellent

Way too complicated. Wish I could return it. Waste of money