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Abelard Update
"Sherry" wrote I don't get how everyone seems to think a cat is going to touch one paw on an electric wire, and suddenly remove it go "Duh! I don't think I'll do that again." Watch a cat climb a fence sometime, and see what happens at the top. They're going to scramble, and panic, and probably end up on the other side of the fence. I understand your sentiments. I would ask how many cats you have witnessed doing this. Dan has described his own experience, and I have seen firsthand how a breeder of small dogs used electrified wire to stop the dogs trying to get out of a yard surrounded by a very low fence. The dogs simply will not go nearer than several inches from the fence. They don't understand electricity, all they know is the fence "bites" if touched. I've seen horses react the same way. Even young foals learn very quickly to avoid the electrictrified fence, and horses are as "reactionary" as cats if not more so. You need to picture the cat climbing up a wire fence in slow motion to understand how the mechanism works. The cat is putting one paw ahead of (higher than) the other as it climbs, meanwhile it is focused on the goal (the top of the fence). We all know that cats do not notice objects that are right under their noses, rather their focus is farther off. Therefore when the cat has reached the electrified wire about six inches from the top of the fence and the next step is to cross that point, and it reaches upward to grab a higher spot on the fence, its paw/leg must of necessity touch the electrified wire, which then "bites" the cat's paw/leg, and the paw/leg is immediately jerked backward - i.e., back down to the previous stage of the climb. At this point it would be helpful to have had the experience of touching an electrified wire and the knowledge that the instinctive response to doing so is to instantaneously withdraw one's hand - or in the case of an animal, whatever body part has either inadvertently or in ignorance touched an electrified wire - and most definitely *not* go forward or further *into* the object that delivered the "bite". Should the cat make a second attempt to continue to the top of the fence, it will again be "bitten" by the wire, with the cat's face close enough to the very thin wire that it does not actually see the wire and thus cannot make the connection between the wire and being "bitten" and thus cannot learn to climb over the fence without touching the wire at all. Even if the cat could make that mental connection, it would still be incapable of climbing the fence without touching the wire. Therefore the cat eventually will "give up" on the prospect of getting over the fence, just as the horse or cow or goat or dog or whatever learns to avoid contact with the fence. |
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Abelard Update
you are absolutely correct, so that is why one must get the right equipment,
if you use a livestock charger you will have fried cat, Lee Sherry wrote in message ... On May 24, 5:06 am, "Stormmee" wrote: a very good explanation, and having grown up on a farm the cattle fencers are completely different from a small yard fence, LeeDaniel Mahoney wrote in message An electric fence charger designed for livestock is the same thing, whether it's in a small yard or not. Sherry |
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