When I was a kid, we had a dog that just did not like being in the backyard. No matter what methods we’d try — going out with her on a leash, attaching her to a lead, etc — she always managed to jump the fence separating the front and back yards, and we’d inevitably have a neighbor knocking on the door not too long after, dog in hand (most of the time we didn’t even know she’d gotten out!).

Had technology been anything like it is today, we could have been notified immediately as soon as she left the boundaries …read more