A new collar for another type of farming.In the south of England, a herd of about 10 Sussex cows is trialling a collar that contains a GPS chip.But the point isn’t to track where the cows are ...

Some dog trainers and owners swear by electronic “shock” collars to bring bad habits to heel, despite the devices being banned in some countries. But are they really bad for your pooch?

As an animal approaches the virtual boundary, the collar emits a warning beep. If the animal continues into the virtual boundary, it receives an electric shock, similar to an electric fence.

Ministers reject a plea to change the law on electric shock collars to allow pet owners to use so-called invisible fences.

Owner who put electric shock collar on dog is fined £2,000 Hundreds of thousands of dog owners who force their pets to wear electric collars were warned yesterday that the devices were “cruel ...

The livestock to be fenced in would wear battery-powered collars around their necks. If a cow, for example, wandered within a metre or two of the virtual fence the collar, fitted with a GPS chip ...

Once the virtual fence is set up, goats wearing the solar powered collar, which looks very close to a typical goat bell, will be alerted at first by vibration and beeping as they approach the ...

Ministers reject a plea to change the law on electric shock collars to allow pet owners to use so-called invisible fences.