I grew up on a farm in Tennessee where if you saw a wire on an insulator mount, you assumed it was hot. If it wasn't your house, you just didn't mess with the fence. It's that simple. If you got shocked on the neighbors electric fence, you kept your mouth shut or someone would kick your behind for being somewhere you didn't belong. We had hot wired garden fence and the only thing we did was listen carefully at night to see if we could hear the coons squalling when they headed to get the corn...