Wireless Underground Dog Fencing Instructions

Call your utility companies and ask them to mark any underground electrical lines or pipes. You don't want to dig into anything and do damage, but the underground wire for the fence must not be parallel to any utility wires either. The underground dog fence must run perpendicular to any underground utility wire to work properly.

Draw a diagram of your property that includes your house, yard and the marked utility lines. Add a loop surrounding the area that shows where you want the dog to be contained within. Make sure to draw the underground dog fence loop around the property, but still perpendicular to any utility lines.

Mount the transmitter for the dog fence on the inside of an exterior wall by tracing the two screw-head holes on the back of the transmitter with a pencil onto the wall and screwing the supplied screws into those holes with a screw driver. Push the transmitter onto the screws securely to hang it in place. Usually a garage or basement wall works best as long as there is an electrical outlet nearby and a window if possible.

Run the twisted transmitter wire out through a window in the basement or garage location you chose. If there is no window, use the garage door or a basement door. If this isn't possible then you must drill a 1/4-inch hole through the bottom of a wall to the outside through which to pass the wire.

Lay out the fence wire along the planned perimeter you designed in step 2. Lay the wire down above ground and bring both ends of the loop together.

Splice the supplied twisted wire ends to the two ends of the loop wire by stripping the ends of the wires with a wire stripper, inserting them into the supplied wire nuts and twisting them.

Insert the wire nuts into the two supplied waterproof gel-filled capsule splices completing the loop.

Tie the wires in a knot above the two waterproof wire splices to keep them from pulling apart.

Connect the ends of the twisted wire to the transmitter by stripping the ends with the wire stripper and inserting them into the wire terminals on the transmitter.

Install the battery in the dog collar by unscrewing the battery cap and placing the battery in with the "+" sign facing out before screwing the battery cap back on.

Attach the test light to your dog's collar so it lights up instead of sending a shock.

Test the underground dog fence by powering up the transmitter and carrying the dog collar to the perimeter loop at the height of your dog's neck. The collar test light should be lit when crossing the loop, but it should not light up anywhere inside the wire loop or inside the house near TVs and telephone lines.

With the flat shovel, dig a 3-inch trench along the planned loop around the property for the underground dog fence wire.

Bury the wire loop in the trench with a little slack so that contraction and expansion from seasonal changes in temperature cannot break the wire.

Remove the test light from the collar and place the collar on your dog.