Pampered Dog Blog

If you’re shopping for a remote remote training collar, determine first how are you going to use it? You could be a hunter and need a remote collar to keep reign on your hunting dogs. If you have farming dogs that need a little discipline, then you also need a collar that’s right for the job. Or you might just be taking your dog out on your backyard, where it can’t get too far away from you. These affect the type of training collar you may need to get. The usual guide when buying remote training collars is range – the distance you need to “keep your dogs on a leash.”

You should take the range you assume you’ll be using the training collar in, and double that. The resulting figure should be the range your remote collar should be capable of. The goal here is to be able to stay within effective transmission range, at all times. The curiosity of dogs and the allure of the outdoors could have them running off in different directions. Should you need to call them back, you can; no worries there.

There are three transmission range categories. Short range usually covers a distance no longer than 500 meters. Medium means 500-1000 meters. 1000 meters and more mean long range.

The three main considerations, which include, the range of transmission, are the size of your dog and how many dog you have. There are three available size ranges – small, medium, and large. Deciding on the range is easy – around 100 meters covers just about any normal backyard. You will need a greater range than that if you’re bringing your dog out in the woods or on the farm. Some remote training collars can handle anywhere from 2-6 individual dogs.

Some other features to think about

Some dog trainers naturally want to know just how far the dog went, and this can be indicated on your transmitter. Transmitters can also have a feature that tells you the battery levels on each of the collars it can track. When out in the field, both are important indicators. A rugged, waterproof design gains importance for handling hunting and working dogs. Finally, you might want a training collar that has both tone and vibration features. The vibration feature becomes important just in case the dog comes to a noisy environment where the collar’s tone might be difficult for the dog to distinguish.