A love-sick monkey desperate to flee her enclosure to be with her mate has learned how to short circuit an electric fence - with a wet blade of GRASS. Bella, a Sulawesi crested black macaque, was left distraught after zookeepers removed dominant male Malino from her pen. She and a...

Dry Soil restricts the conductivity of the ground. All energisers provide a pulse of energy that originates from their 'hot' terminal then travels down the fence line on a charged or 'hot' wire. Most users understand this aspect of electric fencing. It's fairly obvious that the hot wires can't be touching...

I was at a function over the weekend and I was buttonholed by a lady who insisted that she had a horse that was immune to electricity and "laughed" at electric fencing. This was a challenge I could not resist and made an appointment to visit her yard. The yard...

Tape in its basic widths of 20mm or 40mm have been the product of choice by a majority of horse owners since their introduction on the market in the 1970's. Their popularity was initially enhanced by the history of horses getting caught in plain wire and barbed wire fences with...

There are many requests received from concerned urban dwellers regarding the effect resident foxes are having on their lives. This normally boils down to two issues;- The threat posed by foxes to pet chickens. Many people have half a dozen chickens in their back yard often as pets or for...