Reply #10: It's part of an "invisible fence" system [View All]

This is the thing Bush was wearing in the first debate.

In the invisible fence system, you first run an antenna wire all the way around your yard. It is then connected to a transmitter box. (There is also a wireless system, but it sells worse than the wired kind, if that's possible, because it costs $300 to keep one dog in.)

Your dog wears a collar (the thing this woman was attempting to steal) with a receiver on it. There are two little prongs that touch the dog's skin. When your dog crosses the antenna wire in the ground, the collar gives him a shock that convinces him not to go any farther.

An example of the high quality of customers I have: someone came in and bought one of these things. He very neatly installed it in his yard and trained his dog to obey the signals. Then he came in about three weeks later to complain that it doesn't work. His dog went into heat while she was protected by one of these systems and the neighbor's un-neutered male came over and mated with her. "I thought this thing was supposed to keep other dogs out!"