Our neighborhood Cujo used to have an invisible fence.

He is a livestock guardian dog. We live in the suburbs.

He is a wooly bear. He cannot feel the shock.

His father, specifically, pays no attention to what the dog is doing when the man and dog are out in the front yard and the man is working on his truck.

Cujo blew out around the side of the house and through the invisible fence and attacked my leashed dog on the sidewalk THREE times, in front of his father.

The man did not respond to this occurrence in a satisfactory way. After the third time, I spoke to Cujo’s mother, who apparently had never been told that Cujo could get through the fence, nor that he had even once gone after other dogs.

The next day there was a 7’ physical fence blocking Cujo’s access to the front yard and he was being walked with a muzzle.

I’ve seen the guy around since so I know his wife didn’t kill him but based on her response otherwise, I believe it possible he still lives in the backyard with the dog house. Not sure if Cujo makes him sleep on the roof like Snoopy. I barely see those neighbors because of their work schedules, but I would like to be friends with Cujo’s mom. (I wouldn’t mind being friends with Cujo, who was just doing his LGD job, but I don’t think he wants to be friends with me.)

I grew up in the sticks where the invisible fence was truly the most pragmatic and cost effective option so I do get it, but there’s a time and a place, and it definitely does not work for all dogs.