I think that it's great to have so many different settings set up for dogs. Most with a yard needs am electronic fence- It's a bit different for scent hounds. My set-up has 10 settings. I need something adjustable for them. They smell bears & mountain lions in humid air or something else will shut their ears & brains off. Other days- they aren't suffering from houndus scentitious-& their noses stop guiding them. Stonewall is a Bluetick-called the thinking hound-which causes him to be more stubborn & logical. I turned it up for him initially, as he will endure pain-he's smart enough not to bawl at it. Last week he wined, while I worked in roses on the other side of the wire. I'd been allowing them to be collar free. After a few days, I heard scrabbling on the other side of the shed. Like Blueticks, he had his legs spread out sideways & was inching his way up the wall. At the vet's office-he gentley stands up-leans against me & watches the other dogs-there were 3 fights there the last time. He spent almost an hour like that-watching & waiting. The hair on his back was raised. Missy is a nervous Walker Treeing Coonhound. She went out & spent days chopping (walker type of treeing voice) at the wire-trying to make it come out, so she could kill it. She's impulsive & will fight a bear-but when she's relaxed-she's very tender skinned and her feelings get hurt easily-so she goes & sulks like a child. The lowest setting is more than enough, when she feels relaxed, but when she's going, a light charge doesn't do a thing. Then we have Diamond- an old thick-skinned-pig-headed pit bull,. She does what she wants when she wants. I use the long prongs on her collar. For Diamond-a steady setting works at all times- But the hounds have that nose that over rides their brains. They need different settings at different times & I need to do something right then & there.

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