About Mr. McGregor's Fence
Mr. McGregor's Fence® is named for the gentleman gardener in Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" whose frustration immortalized the problem faced by millions of vegetable gardeners who see their crops damaged or destroyed by rabbits, woodchucks, skunks, deer, dogs, cats and other critters. Mr. McGregor's Fence® is the easy, affordable and intelligent solution to every gardener's worst nightmare. It is harmless to animals, pets, and children, simple to set up, requires no below-ground digging and no gate or door (you simply step over it).
People have tried to fence out critters for centuries. Some folks took the "bigger is better" approach. But critters are very smart and a simple barrier fence, regardless of size, just challenges them to figure out an attack plan - whether to dig under or climb over it. And aside from not working very well, these simple barrier fences are expensive and hard to install.
Others discovered that the zap from an electric fence can persuade the critters to go home. They also discovered, however, that electric fences formed with single or paired wires are not difficult for critters to avoid. Additionally, electric wires are nearly invisible so people trip over or uproot them.
Mr. McGregor's Fence® creatively combines these two elements by running electrically charged wires around a simple barrier fence at heights where the nose or paws of an exploring creature will find them. Any animal that manages to avoid the electrically charged wires is stopped by the barrier fence long enough to cause it to come up against the wires and get zapped. The mild electric charge it gets comes as a most unpleasant surprise and the animal turns tail and runs away.
Jonathan Leonard, the fence's inventor, installed the first prototype of this fence 20 years ago to protect his vegetable garden. His friends were so impressed with the success of his invention that he decided to make it available to them and others and that's how Mr. McGregor's Fence® was born in 1997.
By being very affordable, installer-friendly, user-friendly, nature-friendly and safe, Leonard hoped that Mr. McGregor's Fence® would revolutionize home vegetable gardening-and so it has.
