PetSafe Guardian GPS Dog Fence, 3/4 Acre+

Best GPS fence without subscription— I have a set up at my house and one on the farm for my 2 GSPs (German Shorthairs.) Easy installation and set-up; the app walks you through it. Zero problems. Great range; give hazardous areas more clearance (e.g. do not set the boundary directly beside a road. Use common sense.) Clean appearance with an indicator light. It’s expensive, but it beats having to install an in-ground system or an actual fence. Plus, you can change the fence anytime you need to and if you move, you can take it with you. The collars have multiple levels static correction and the collar will tone when it comes close to the fence border. I remove the collars to charge overnight, so no problems with battery life. Adding a new collar is easy too if you have multiple dogs— you can create a profile for each dog. You can use standard thickness 1” biothane if you prefer a custom collar appearance (I recommend Beau&Nora for custom biothane collars and leashes!) The quality of the collar is great, just cut off the excess. Overall, you won’t find a better or more affordable option without a subscription.

I really give this ZERO stars but this makes you put at least one. It was easy enough to set up and create the boundaries. We worked on the boundaries an entire evening walking the area numerous times holding the collar to be sure we had the flags (ordered those separate) in the correct place to warn our dog before the collar would vibrate/static. The following day we started walking her numerous times on the leash with the collar on vibration only showing her the flags and then getting her to come away from them using treats once we heard the vibration to help her understand that she does not want to hear that sound. I did this multiple times a day for the next 3 days with the collar/leash. On the 4th day we turned on the static option as well, walked her a few times around the area with her leash and she did good and all was working just as it had been. That evening while we were in the basement she went out the door to potty (25 feet from where the collar usually started vibrating) and it shocked her so naturally she runs yelping to me, in the house, and it starts shocking her again before I could get it off her. I understand that this is what the system is set up to do but it should ONLY do that when she is outside of the area I set up. How are you supposed to train a dog when the system is unreliable?! I requested a refund that night and sent it back.

I researched several different types of collars before deciding on petsafe. I needed to create my own boundary while relying on a gps system. I also didn't have alot of money for the extremely expensive brands. I didn't want to install underground fencing. My only wish is that I would have bought this system sooner. It has been a God send for my two dogs. Both are over 50 pounds, and were constantly going into others yards, getting near the road and pushing their boundaries. I tried another system with a training collar before purchasing this one and it failed miserably. I have been using the petsafe gps system since June. I did not have to train my dogs with the collar. The static will go to a level of 10. I put both of theirs on 8. The collars beep before they hit the boundary and they know what that beep means. We put the collars on in the morning, leave the house without having to put them in their pen, and take the collars off before putting them up for the evening. Charge on the collars lasts about 3, sometimes 4 days. Fence boundary is very easy to set up. I have adjusted it several times when the need arises to keep them from going to particular areas. I really have nothing bad to say. I am very pleased with this system and the way it works.

This is a great product. But they need to go back to the drawing board when it comes to the material used for the collars. I have two duct tape my dogs collars for them to stay. Otherwise they constantly loosen. We live by an extremely busy road where the speed limit is 55 mph. And not only do we have cars we have farm machinery going in front of our house as we live in the country. Having to duct tape, my dogs collars to ensure that they stay at an adequate tightness because it becomes a safety issue. If it is too loose is not good. In terms of the way that the system functions we have over 10 acres of land that our dogs have complete access to and we have no issues. The collars work great.

I am very thankful for this product. I am now able to let my dog out to roam and I can know she will stay out of the road. I had to call customer support to help me set up, because the base wouldn’t connect. That made set up more difficult, but the staff were fantastic, gracious and helpful. I have noticed that every once in a while the collar had decided to go off on my dog while we are in the garage and inside the boundary. It scares the crap out of me. I’m to call customer support again and see if this can be fixed.

We’ve been using the Petsafe Guardian for a year for a 32 lb Boston Terrier and couldn’t be happier! We fought for years to keep an underground, wired fence functioning and had too many frustrations keeping it connected (accidental cuts by neighbors/cable crews/landscapers, etc!) We knew we didn’t want a monthly subscription and we just needed containment- not tracking. We were able to get this connected in minutes and it works even better than the wired fence! The app is simple and user friendly. We did have the luxury of our dog being trained to his boundaries prior to using this, and it was a seamless transition. We can choose vibration or static levels 1-10. We usually go back and forth between vibration and static 2 because he gets too comfortable with vibration after a while and a little static reminds him to stay! The collar has gotten wet and didn’t have any issues. It stays charged for 3-4 days and I get a notification when he has a handful of hours left so I can make sure we get it charged. I also get notified if our power/wifi goes out and the collar loses connectivity, though that has only happened once in a year. It will hold connectivity where it left off even if the power goes out as long as the collar is charged. We have put a little electric tape over the indicator light because it can be a lot of light and it blinks a lot. The light colors are indicative of charge and connectivity. Overall, we are VERY happy with this purchase and wish we had gone wireless much sooner!!!

First, Amazon has been great and have replaced these two collars we purchased, and they did it free of charge. But ONLY ONE TIME. However, we spent over $700 on two of these collars and the base unit. We purchased them in June 2025. They worked well for 4 months. Then they began to fall offline and they do it continuously. No amount of research or restarting will make any difference. It's not our wifi. It shows a strong signal at all times and everything else works all the time. It's not trees or buildings. We live on an open prairie. We reset everything multiple times and every time they work for a while. The chat lines and help line keep telling us to remove the batteries and reinstall them. These units do NOT have batteries. We tried repositioning the base unit. We reloaded the app on our phones multiple times. Sometimes they just come back when we do nothing. We are at the end of our patience. We had really, really cheap GPS collars before that worked well for about 1 year on average. They were better than these. I will never spend any money for this brand again. Never.

This worked great at first and then it stopped working. We have a 1/2 acre lot and support is telling us this works best on lots 3/4 and larger. Not what the product info says. Now I have to see how too get a refund.