Electric shock collars

[birchave0]

best of luck sorting your pooch out, we are very lucky as we have 90 acres but we do have a main road past the farm so I understand your worries.

This is two of mine tonight in their favourite place!

 

[Scranny_Ann]

toomanyhorses - they are gorgeous!

My lab is 'yellow' although tbh she is actually almost white!! Got a black cocker too ... must sort out pics and get them on here. x

 

[birchave0]

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toomanyhorses - they are gorgeous!

My lab is 'yellow' although tbh she is actually almost white!! Got a black cocker too ... must sort out pics and get them on here. x

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Meet Pookie (Lab) Pudding (cocker), not their real names! Really Polly and Bella, but all my animals seem to have stupid fun names as well, how sad am I???? You can tell we have no children!!!!!

 

[SouthWestWhippet]

My mum has used these with some success on her whippets to stop them jumping out of the garden. It was one of the ones where they have the special collars and then you lay a wire down on the perimeter of your property and you can set it to give a warning 'whistle' then a mild shock then a slightly stronger one as they get closer to the wire.

With the gun dog, she absolutely hated it... was really upset by even just the mild whistle and we took it off her PDQ.

Most of the whippets got the idea about not leaping over the perimeter fence and going hunting (bloody hounds are a nightmare LOL) but her stud dog actually used to jump the fence, giving a yelp of pain as he did so and still zoom off into the distance.

Personally I think they are a bit unnecessary for the 'softer' more trainable breeds. they can be useful for the hunting dogs like hounds and terriers who seem to have a stronger instinct to do their job and find it hard to 'override' that and be obedient sometimes.

 

[Scranny_Ann]

Meet Pookie (Lab) Pudding (cocker), not their real names! Really Polly and Bella, but all my animals seem to have stupid fun names as well, how sad am I???? You can tell we have no children!!!!!

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Oh our dogs have silly names full stop!!! Mine are Kensa (Lab) and Ellie (springer) and dads are Mitzy (JR), Willow (Cocker) and Bramble, daisy, Fern and Lucy (springers)
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[Edogsuk]

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Does anyone have one I could loan for a while or buy? My puppy needs to learn the concept of punishment for not coming when called. Had plenty of room to train my last dog, but are surrounded by too many roads now.
Ta!

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Below 6 months is to young, it's reall best to start an OB course app 7-9 months in a male, add an e-collar then.

 

[Edogsuk]

Hi all, I just came across this, it's nice to see so many people who understand e-collars although I notice few old style trainer types are still steeped in the old demonological belief systems that the little invisible, blue, 'electra demon' are around casting their old spells, curses and superstitions of the blue demon myths & spreading their own ignorance like a disease.

Using an e-collar as a dog training aid is the most modern training there is, it has advanced the welfare & quality of life of dogs and their human owners 100,000 years from the e-collars predecessor, the long line or lead.

E-training is training by touch and the only difference between training a dog by hand touch or using an Eccles cake is that the hand or Eccles cake cannot reach beyond arms length, but a radio signal can transmit an equivilent sensation.

Thankfully we are now in the days of the little pocket full of the magic video digi camera, so its easy to show people that these hysterics are just plain making things up from their base of demonological religions.

Youtube - just copy & past the links
Training Dogs With an Eccles Cake or E-Collar
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lVQG9t6zjKs


E-Collar Trained Dog - Chases with & without recalls + Lost/Out of sight dog recovery with an e-collar system.
http://uk.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AB2AC9FE21AFF70B

Humane Society E-Collar OB Training
http://uk.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DAF4775A184D4F8F

Begining E-Collar Training
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2YRmnqZUWXw

edogsuk - full e-dog video channel
http://uk.youtube.com/edogsuk



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[MurphysMinder]

I was always very against electric collars. However my friend has a very big GSD who can be aggressive with other dogs. Won't go into long details but she does know what she is doing, the dog is very well trained (he has working trials qualifications) and her trainer suggested she tried an electric collar just to try and stop the dog aggression. She has the sort that vibrates before it give the shock. He has been shocked just once, after that the vibrate mode was enough to make him stop and think, and she very rarely needs to use even that. I tried the collar on (yes I know I am mad), and the shock was far milder than I have received from touching the horses electric fence. I still believe great care must be taken in using them, and certainly should only be used by experienced handlers, but I can now see a place for their use where all other methods have failed.