PetSafe Indoor Radio Fence

5 Reviews

1. I used this on my cat so he wouldn’t go into my roommate’s bedroom. If you’re worried about the shock, don’t be. I shocked myself and it just feels like a strong static shock you get on dry days, nothing more.

   There’s a warning tone at a certain distance, and then a shock at a closer distance, which leads me to my two complaints.

   1) Warning and shock should be able to be set separately. Instead, they’re linked as one setting. So if you increase one, the other increases also, with the warning maybe 2-3 feet out from the shock radius. In my case, this lead to a situation where my cat couldn’t even go in the kitchen down the hall from the bedroom. No, you cannot turn the warning tone off.

   2) Maybe certain animals are different, but my cat quickly learned the radius for both the shock and the warning. So, because he’s a cat, what he would do is stand inside the warning radius…and not move. BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP. It’s not super loud but it’s loud enough to be very obnoxious to anyone in a somewhat quiet house.

2. We live in the city, so we like to keep the cat from running out the front door. There aren’t a whole lot of options for creating indoor boundaries for cats. As one of the few, this one is alright.

   The signal is not very consistent– you’re supposed to be able to create a radius of where you don’t want the cat to be (in relation to the disk). The signal seems to be intermittent even when the collar has a brand new battery, so sometimes the cat can sneak all of the way up to the disk without getting zapped/warned.

   Nevertheless, the cat has learned to be wary of the disk and now generally gives the front door a wide berth.

3. I have an outdoor system as well as 2 indoor discs-We have a very loveable Min Pin who after 6 years still wets in the house-this system allows us to keep him out of rooms we don’t want him to use as a bathroom and yet he has alot of freedom in the area he can be in without using a cage which he has always hated even as a puppy-with the discs there is freedom to change up the area for his use as necessary.He is happy with his freedom and we are happy knowing we no longer have to worry about his bathroom habits. The setting on the dial is a little hard to see-we keep it low this will travel between floors if set too high so you have to watch-I actually take his collar off and hold it carefully to see exactly where the boundaries are in the house when I use a disc and so I know he can exit the house without triggering a warning buzz.

4. When we bought our first indoor system we so pleased with it that we bought two more. Over time the disks seemed to fade in power. I called PetSafe and they told me it wasn’t possible. Now, we have three disks that power on, but give off no signal. Since they are covered under a lifetime warranty, PetSafe is willing to replace them…for $40 each. This is suppose to cover the cost of the repairs. These do work great if you only need them for a very short time, but for the cost, I expected more. We also have the outdoor system, and with five dogs, we’ve gone through a LOT of collars over the years. PetSafe really needs to make a more durable collar. They are good about replacing the collars when they are shot (They usually don’t survive a battery change,) but their exchange charges are unreasonable.

5. Works great with cats. I started having a peeing problem and this kept the cats out of certain areas. With my house, I set up 4 transmitters for each boundary area.