My neighbor has an electric fence charger that knocks his cows to the ground if they touch his fence. He only has the top two wires charged. Then, last week, he said he saw the other neighbors two pitbulls trying to dig up under the fence. So, he went out scared them off and routed the charge to the bottom two wires. Well, needless to say, the dogs tried again and"zip zap", they fell. The charge is strong enough that it sort of stunned them and he just calmly walked out there and rolled them into a cage,called the law and the neighbor, and now the dogs are gone. While I don't condone doing harm to any animals for no reason, when it comes to your livelyhood, or business, I think this man has the right idea about strays, coyote, bobcats,(and in lower texas even jaguarandi (sp?) and other such. I saw on a report on tv that a couger will go out on a limb, literally, and jump down into a herd. So will a bear. These are predatory animals and they will use whatever means is at hand. A sheep and goat (and llama and dogs) are too short to be affected by a heavy charged fence, IF, the fence is done right, but it will protect them. Just my two cents, Helen
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