Dog Training Collar – Teach Your Dog Some Rules
30 Oct 2010
It rarely stops on its own, without some behavioral change thrown in. Your dog isn’t magically going to avoid his problem behavior just because you snug-fit it with a remote dog training collar. You have to give it time, time for your pet to get accustomed to the different kind of collar it’s wearing. On your part, you may have to research on how the training collar works, and when to legitimately expects results from it. And before you even put one on your dog, you’d have to have shopped properly for one (and you just can’t get any kind of training collar).
What you can do, to get immediate results, is to hop online and do the search there. Your own dog owner friends and even your vet are a great source of info on the matter; still, you could use some feedback from the online consumership about certain dog supply products. For example, the very product you’re interested about – dog training collars – you could immediately see the pros and cons about the products straight from those who bought and used them themselves.
Not everyone has time to spend for dog training. But the gains outweigh the possible inconvenience if you care enough for your dog, and your peace of mind. Dog problems one may need to address can range from aggression, forbidding them entry to certain parts of your house, and chasing cars.
The main benefit you get from using a dog training collar is the immediate behavior correction you can instil – or at least immediate stimulus you provide, until the dog gets the message. You can do this from a distance, via a transmitter that sends signals for the collar to activate and release a static correction. This set up is different from that of an electric bark collar, which only sends out the static correction upon barking. With a dog training collar, you can choose to “correct” many types of unwanted behavior including or apart from nuisance barking.
There are some standard procedures used to introduce dogs to their new training collar. These include making sure the collar is snugly fit around the dog’s neck – make sure the collar does not rub against your dog’s skin, to avoid discomfort and irritation. Remember to check if the collar’s device touches your dog’s neck’s skin, or at least the part directly above the throat. Properly set up this way, the collar can effectively send the static shock every time you activate it with your transmitter. When starting your dog on the training collar, it’s customary to begin training it using only the lowest level of stimulation.
Having a remote transmitted handy means you interrupt your dog’s unwanted behavior – by letting it feel a shock – the moment the behavior happens; in time the dog will associate the discomfort with avoiding particular behavior. Therefore you may want to invest some time in observing your dog, transmitted in hand, and sending it a shock the moment it starts its nuisance behavior.
