"GPS dog collar give owners peace of mind"

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - For many, their pet is a part of the family and when they go missing it can cause a lot of stress and anxiety. Now, one man explains how a new collar has given him some peace of mind when it comes to looking after his dogs. Bill Otterbein and his husband Mike have three dogs, Dallas, Chloe, and the youngest dog, Quinn.

Bill and Mike have learned Quinn is quite the escape artist, getting out of their fenced in yard a handful of times. They adopted Quinn from NMDOG, a shelter that specializes in dogs who didn’t been treated the best in previous homes. (“didn’t been treated” ?)
“They told me that huskies have a tendency to run and I’ve never had a husky before so they included a collar, a GPS tracking collar, when we adopted Quinn,” Bill explained.

The collar is connected to an app called Fi, in the app Bill and Mike can set up “safe zones” so any time Quinn leaves that zone they get a notification. “So, the day he got away I was on the computer working on emails and I got a flash across the screen that Quinn is off the property without the owner,” Bill said pulling up the Fi app on his phone and showing us a map. “The day that he escaped that’s the track he took, he went out that way I was notified when he left the property then I drove to that spot there and started calling him he came then we drove back home.”

“One of the animals we had before, Ricky, he ran away and he was gone for 45 minutes and it was probably the longest 45 minutes of my life cause I didn’t know where he was." But now, thanks to this collar, Bill says he has a new peace of mind, knowing where his family is at all times.

https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/gps-dog-collar-give-owners-peace-of-mind/6324693/?cat=500

Seems to me, if this guy’s dog keeps getting out of the fence, he needs a better fence.
It’s called being a responsible pet owner.

[hlthe2b]

1. Huskies truly are escape artists. I recall a kennel on fire in GA where one got over 9 foot fence

and managed to open nearly a dozen kennels, allowing other dogs to escape. In this case, bringing a great deal of relief-- despite the tragedy of so many not making it.

[mopinko]

2. huskies are quite adept at escape.

i wouldnt be too hard on the guy. some dogs are born to run, and will find a way.
i once had a german shepherd that i picked up as a stray. she was stray cuz she had ITCHY feet.
she was incredibly hard to contain. she jumped out second story windows, and could climb a 6' fence in a heartbeat.

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. I had a Doberman next door once.

I watched that dog climb, jump, squeeze through the chain link fence everyday. He would just come to my yard to be nosy, and sniff around. No big deal. Neighbors usually there to get him in a few minutes.

He grew out of it, when he got older.

[ret5hd]

3. Maybe help with a good design...

razor wire, guard towers, moats.

You do realize we have been designing building prisons for centuries...yet people still escape.

[Bayard]

5. Jeez!

I thought it was bad that we had to raise all of our fencing to 6' when we adopted our second Great Pyrenees. He was quite the escape artist. He finally decided this was a good place, and where he wanted to be. That was 5 years ago. He did get out a few weeks ago, only to sit by the front gate, and wait to be let back in---just to say, "I can still do this."