This easy to install electric fencing kit is ideal for discouraging small to medium size pets, dogs, cats, rabbits etc from trying to escape the garden. The fence has conventional, visible wires, which means that your pet can of course see the fence and will learn to respect and to stay away from it. And even if your pet is stubborn, or perhaps not the brightest spark, it won't be harmed by the fence.
In addition to containing dogs etc, the small pet fencing kit can also be used to help protect flower beds, borders and vegetable plots from unwanted animal pests, not just your own dogs, cats, pet rabbits, but wild rabbits and other larger rodents, or to keep badgers away from a section of lawn, or perhaps to encircle a pond and help guard against predators.
As with all of our electric fence systems, you do not have to create a loop; for example, you could if you wish set up an 83m long, 3 line straight fence to separate a “wild” area, from a cultivated garden perhaps to keep out rabbits; please note that to keep out rabbits we suggest the posts are set leaning out at a 45 degree angle facing outwards.
The fence kit comes with enough fencing material, posts, connectors etc to enclose a good 100m plus perimeter section with 2 fence lines; this can easily be extended if you wish by adding more of the same materials (follow the links below if necessary).
Each Small Pet, Mains Powered Electric Fencing Kit includes the following items:
To set the fence up:
First use the KS15 insulators to provide a solid anchor at the start and end of your fence line. Screw the insulators into a convenient, solid base such as a wooden fence post, tree etc. You could also drill a hole into a brick wall (and use raw plugs) to fix, but wherever you choose, it is important to have a good anchor at the start and end of your fence plus in an ideal world, at any abrupt change of direction in the fence line i.e. corners. The better these anchors, the tighter you will be able to set up the fence lines.
The posts should be spaced at approx 3m – 7m intervals as necessary to guide and support the fence lines and this can easily be adjusted retrospectively. Once the anchors and posts are in place, you can set up the fence lines. Use a Bolt Joint Clamp to secure the polywire to your anchor insulator. To do this, wrap the polywire once or twice around the insulator and then use a Clamp to fix it in place (don’t tie a knot as this can damage the polywire). Next feed the polywire through the fence posts to the opposite anchor and fix in place the same way as the first. Cut the polywire and repeat the process for your next fence line.
Once the fence lines are in place, use the in-line tensioners to tighten the lines. You don’t need to turn them into guitar strings, they just need to be nice an straight. Once this is done, the final fence line task is to join the two (or more) lines together so that when you connect the power, electricity can travel down each line. Cut a short length of polywire, (or the black HT/G cable) and use bolt joint clamps to link the individual fence lines together.
To make the fence live, you now need to connect your energiser. The Gemini energiser that comes with this kit can actually be used with a 12v leisure battery, in which case you can mount the energiser outside with your battery nearby. When connecting to the mains however, you need to mount the energiser indoors, in your house, shed etc. plugging the energiser into a standard wall socket. You will then need to use two lengths of the HT/G cable. On to connect the live port on the energiser to your fence line and the other to connect the earth port of the energiser to your earth spike. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THIS SPIKE IS PUSHED FULLY INTO THE GROUND, AT LEAST 10M (30ft) from any other earth system i.e. your house, neighbours house etc. Make sure you run the cables out of harms way, in a conduit, or pinned to a wall, fence etc.
