Shock collars, should I get one?

[BigRed323]

As said in other threads before, work on her "recall" yourself first.

Problem is, is that even though you know she is going to/doing it, you keep letting her run free. YOU are giving her the option to disobey you. A dog is a dog. If they know they can get away with it, they will. And the more you let it happen, the worse it gets.

Stop letting her off leash till you have a reliable recall. Start close on a leash and as her recall gets stronger, start using longer and longer leads. Once she is good from a distance on leash, start close off leash and do the same off leash as you did on lead.

Like you said above, some dogs you can get lucky with and the first couple of shocks with jolt their senses to behaving all the time but then there are the dogs that know when the collar is off and they'll do what they want when it is off. I trained recall without the collar first, and then enforced distance and speed of response with the e-collar.

The key is CONSISTENCY with a dog. When you call her, she HAS to come. She has no other option.

[BigTee]

I have had great luck with e-collars over the years. I started using them on pointing dogs several years back. Now I use them on my house dog. I think the key is to use them carefully and they will compliment your training methods nicely.

[47]

Not trying to hijack but do they make one small enough for a young jrt and will i be able to use the same one when she is full grown? She is 3 months and very head strong. Smart but not always cooperative

Got one for my JRT at tractor supply. Though 3 months might be a tad young for that level of training. I think I started mine after 6 months.

Now all I have to do is show him the remote.

[gmj]

Thanks fisher

[zr2chevy22]

If it's used correctly it's a great tool. Just don't let the dog get collar wise where they only obey when the collars on. I've been putting mine on him whenever we worked on things since he was 3 months old. I didn't turn it on and start using it until he was 6 months old and it's worked wonders. He's 8 months now and does really good. I only use it to reinforce commands he already knows. I also use the tone and vibrate which seems to get his attention more then a light nic.

Use it wisely and you'll have to use it very little once they know you can reach them without a lease on.

Andrew

[fireman0684]

So my next thought is what collar do I buy

Sport dog makes pretty good collars, and Garmin does as well. They will run anywhere from $150-300. Just depends on how much you want to spend

[cantexduck]

Garmin will be the best. They own tri tronics now. enforce the commands with a e collar do not teach them the commands with it.

[4wheels]

They work great. I had one for the house to keep dogs off the couch. If they got too close a bell would ring, closer then kazap.. they associated the bell with the kazap. took maybe 3 times. After that they would jump when they heard the bell.

[zr2chevy22]

I just got an email from Gundogsupply.com and they have a new Garmin Tri-Tronics coming out called the Sport Pro. It looks to be a really good collar. I have the Garmin Delta for my dog and it works well. The sport pro will have the same collar as the 550 just a different remote.

Oh yeah collar is priced at 249. Here's a link http://gundogsupply.com/garmin-tri-t...sport-pro.html


Andrew