Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Will a cattle grade electric fence hurt or kill a cat?

Mark, might want to wait until after Aug 6th to try this out. Be a shame to show up with two black eyes

We use electric fences designed for horses around everything around here. Keeps my chickens out of the garden, dogs too. Will send a dog running if he bumps a wet nose, but sure won't kill him. Never seen a chicken get shocked either, but they must have been because they won't go near the garden when the fence is up, and they could easily step or fly over it.

Top of the line in-ground containment systems have "run-through" preventers. They work! Or perhaps your dog has a higher stubborn/pain tolerance level than mine does.

My Lab found out about the run-thru thing when I up-graded from a Gen 1 to the latest and best Gen 3 Innoko as of 7 years ago. He tried to run thru the fence as he'd been doing to the early model and it nailed him good as I had it cranked up to the highest level. It probably helped that he then turned and raced right up the wire while it nailed him hard several more times, and he dodged back into the yard just as the safety cut-off kicked in. That dog was TRAINED!

Of course, if it isn't on in the house, or the collar battery isn't charged, he's off "visiting" all over the neighborhood. It is funny to watch him creep up to the exact distance from the boundry that he knows the collar should beep at him, then either back up, or "Zip" - he's off!

He's also learned to scrunch his neck up to check if he is wearing a battery pack collar if I have the remote control for the training collar in hand... He hasn't learned (yet) to distinguish between the yard collar and the training collar....

No, it won't kill a cat. They probably won't even touch it, depending upon how close to the ground it is.

The only electric fence I've ever seen kill an animal was an old farmer around here who decided he didn't want to spend the money for an electric fence controller and somehow afro-engineered the fence directly into the 110V house supply. The next day he had one of his cows dead.

No electric fence controller out there pushes enough current to kill an animal the size of a housecat, some will make them think they're dying though.

I doubt it, but it will add much speed to it's movement. I have seen one of the daughters cats do the same exact thing as the vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8DqqPto9lw

Jeez......you have a cross bred coyote.......she has 4 cats........either one of you sign a pre-nup?

Nothing like living on the edge.......................................................................of divorce.

An electric fence won't kill a cat.

No matter how hard you try...

Aw for cryin' out loud,....yer' PARENTS had one on yer' CRIB.

GTC

And, your point is?

No. They run like 9000 volts, but essentially no amps. One gets a jolt, but there's not enough amps to cook anything in ones system.

Might actually be some brief entertainment.

in a just world, it would kill a cat.

And shave their tails.

What ever you do, don't make the fence out of Christmas tree lights!



(No cats were actually harmed in the making or posting of this video)

No, but You couldn't throw'em anywhere near it once they've been bit

Gunner

Growing up on the farm we had a hot fencer. Had a crazy cow one time that got across it, shocked her and knocked her to the ground. When she landed, it grounded out and she was pok until she stood up and the wire went with her, knocked her down again. Dad had to drop the wire from the insulator to keep the wire from chasing her.

Same fencer was used around the sweetcorn patch tpo keep coons out. Those that say it wpont kill an animal are wrong. The lowest wire got knocked off insulators, we found it with several thousand dead grasshoppers and a big black snake dead.

Another time found a coon hung up with a paw on the barbed wire, he was definitely dead.

Lastly was a red tailed hawk, my guess is it landed on post with one foot and wire with the other, somehow hanging it up. I found it hanging from the wire.

Just touching will be ok, but hung up is dead fluffy. Had a bird dog that wouldn't go near the garden for his final 4 years of life after bumping into the wire

electric fence that keeps hogs in and bears out won't kill a chicken.

Or a cat.

I used to have a fencer for horses but when we got some goats, it wouldn't do the job. They just ignored the shock. I have one now that puts out between 11 & 12K volts. THAT gets their attention.

Keep the cats inside. I like cats and indoor cats live longer and have much fewer health problems than outdoor cats.

They spend most of thier time inside, happily. But they love to go out and play big bad huntercat for a few hours each day.

you sir, are surmising that having them live a long time is, to me, a GOOD thing. Of this I am not entirely sure.....