If you are lucky to have a home with a backyard or garden, you are bound to have faced issues concerning your pet’s safety and protection. The traditional solution to this dilemma would have been to erect a physical fence around the boundary of your home in order to contain your pet. An actual wood or wire fence would at one time have more than adequately done the trick. But nowadays with several more modern options available, people find conventional fences as an eyesore to their landscape or even too difficult to set up.

So what is the alternative then? One of the options is the underground or wired fence. Installing a wire system around the perimeter of the garden or yard creates these fences. Setting up such a system is often time consuming and labor intensive. The wires could also get exposed after a period of time and potentially destroyed if they are severed by mistake by a lawn mower or any other equipment. Therefore, the new breed of wireless dog fences are a much more popular choice today. They are not only easier to install – there is no digging involved after all but wireless fences are also totally portable, which comes in very handy when traveling or moving homes. There is only the need to set up the transmitter of the device in any part around the house and the receiver on the dog's collar. If your pet then tries to move out of the electronic boundary created, a high-pitched sound followed by a small static shock would follow. These shocks are very low in voltage and pose no threat to your pet and they just serve to instruct your dog that he has moved out of the acceptable boundaries and to return back immediately. You can also adjust the settings of the device to control how far your pet can roam freely and even how strong or weak the shock should be. This is a very effective system but it does need a certain amount of training before your dog understands the implications of such a device.

Of late however, there have been new advances in the field of pet protection and security. The latest buzz on the streets is GPS Tracking for pets. Using the same GPS technology as that found in automobiles and phones, GPS Pet Trackers such as the SpotLight GPS Pet Locator has been developed in conjunction with The American Kennel Club Companion Animal Recovery (AKC CAR) in an attempt to reduce the number of missing dogs. As an alternative to wireless fences, SpotLight also allows you to create virtual safety zones for your pet. Once these safe spots have been determined, you will be informed any time your pet leaves these locations thus allowing you to track him down much faster. Thus you can create zones such as your backyard or even the neighborhood park and be informed when your pet leaves these areas unsupervised. Portable, durable, water-resistant, rechargeable and lightweight, with the advent of the SpotLight GPS Locator, the need for other control and training devices are soon becoming redundant.