SpotOn GPS Fence

This system is great. We have had it for over a year now and I have been able to let my dogs safely roam in their territory. The new update that allows manual correction is fantastic. I can now let them know when it’s time to come home from afar. It only took one static to enforce the beep command to indicate coming back. Because my dogs are also Akbash and Marrema, they did eventually decide the shock was worth crossing the boundary, but they include free sessions with a trainer. I was able to work with a trainer and another stronger collar, that I only had to use once, and they no longer cross the boundary. You do have to keep up with reinforcing training sometimes with stubborn dogs, but not a lot. And when it doesn’t work, the app notifies you and you can see exactly where they are. On escapes I have been able to jump in my truck and track them down, make sure they didn’t get into the road, or shot, and get them home safe. The battery lasts for us from about 6am to about 11pm to midnight. You get a warning at ten percent but I would like a warning when it’s also like at 2 percent or closer because ten is the last warning and that’s still some time. So just a final warning would be good, like a ten minutes left or something. “Time to get the dogs home!” Thanks Spot On, you are always super helpful and responsive and I appreciate it! Johnny and June are safe on what we have been told is the largest fence area Spot On has seen! (16 square miles?)

We moved to a property on 2 acres that wasn’t fully fenced and it’s on a very busy road with traffic going 45+ mph. We tried to train our Golden Retriever Ruby using her e-collar and the remote and walking her along the boundaries and that worked as long as we were outside with her. She quickly learned that if we weren’t around she could leave the yard with no consequence. We got several phone calls from neighbors across the busy road telling us that Ruby had come to visit. We knew it was only a matter of time before she got hit by a car. After doing a ton of research we decided to try SpotOn. I liked the fact that there was no monthly membership required. I am happy to report that Ruby has not escaped once and we feel 100% comfortable letting her roam her yard unsupervised. The fence setup was really easy and she learned the boundaries right away. She is not a very strong willed dog and definitely hates to be in trouble so we have that on our side. While teaching her the boundaries we did use the static setting along the busy road because she had to learn that was an absolute no zone, but now we only turn on the vibrate setting. She self corrects as soon as she hears the tone. Anyone with a strong willed dog (like our previous Golden!) may need different settings. This weekend we are traveling and I’m excited to try setting up a temporary boundary where we will be camping.

Absolutely the most amazing collar. It has manual training mode to train your dog with tones or shocks. Can be used for hunting. Can set any size and any shape whether by walking the perimeter or by placing points on a map. I’ve had the first gen collar and the second gen collar. The first gen had a couple of kinks that they worked out. And when those issues arose, customer service is so on top of it and they are extremely friendly and helpful! 2 times I had to send the first gen collar in for them to actually work on it. The second gen collar I’ve had for over a year now I think has had no issues the app is improved significantly. No more connecting the collar to a computer to update the firmware. I looked at some of the other collars that compete and each one was majorly lacking in different areas compared to SpotOn. This is by far the best collar currently. I have a Bernese mountain dog that has a very thick coat so finding the happy medium of top tight collar and loose is a little tough but if it’s too lose the contacts don’t contact him so he doesn’t feel the zap if he does ignore the beeps but he usually just listens to the beeps. But the entire collar is filled with holes to adjust the size of the collar. You can’t cut the strap but if you might possibly use it on a larger dog like a friends dog that comes over or anything i suggest you don’t trim the excess if you have a small or medium dog. If he does go through the zone it instantly switches to gps tracking mode after alerting by app that he has left the zone. But with around 20 acres that he can roam i can just leave his collar on him for the day and he can roam wherever he wants and I don’t have to think or worry and just plug the collar in at night! God bless you SpotOn team!