my son finally finished the electric fencing yesterday so my ducks and geese are more protected...he got all finished, plugged her in and decided to touch it to test it...he touched it and nothing happened...touched is several times and nothing happened...so he went around the fence line trying to determine if we had some grass or something touching and shorting it out...he spotted some suspicious grass and got down on his knees to remove it...weeeellllll...in the pulling of the grass, he touched the fence...there was this war whoop from behind the chicken coop and he came flying out of there shaking his arm madly...when he was standing, his rubber soled shoes allowed him to touch the fence with no results but with his knees on the ground? It got him...he left shaking his arm still after half and hour and his wife and I trying very hard not to snicker too loud...he is such a good guy, but that was funny...