Pampered Dog Blog

Does your dog keep moving away from you to get other people’s attention? Yes, such can be cute, at least to someone who doesn’t’ own the dog – but you have to deal with the consequences.

A supposedly easy day of letting time pass in your garden may end up a stressful one – with you wanting to lock your dog up indoors, because it keeps running away from you. There are times your dogs just does what it wants, ignoring your calls and shouts – it will chew furniture, dig garden soil, run after other pets, scare little kids, and so on.

Some background info

You want to make your dog stop engaging in annoying behavior? Can it really be done? It’s possible, with a remote collar. Obedience training for dogs, before the advent of transmitters and receivers, was pure hard work and repeated tries. A situation had to be set up wherein the dog could start his bad habits or bad deeds and then you just had to “punish” it right before or right after the act. Of course, the deserved rewards (play time, some treats, attention) were given later on, when the dog avoided the unwanted behavior.

Dog obedience training today

But with the use of 1 remote collar, and some time spent observing your dog, you can weed out bad behavior. You can actually train your dog to avoid some nasty habits – like chewing on shoes, clawing up furniture, or running after cars.

Quick results

No more leashes for your dog – when it misbehaves, with a remote collar, you just click on a button (on a remote control) and your dog stops. Part of the remote collar package is the remote transmitter – like a remote control for your TV – which is the size of a small cell phone and acts to send signals from 500 to over 1000 meters to the collar. Remote collars are going to be an investment, especially when you have many dogs to be disciplined – perfect for those who own sheep or working dogs.

So how does a remote collar work – the details

Your dog’s collar is equipped with a device that releases a low volt electric current. A leash means you have to yank it when your dog misbehaves, but a remote collar allows you to disrupt bad behavior without the stress of yanking and shouting at your dog. Your dog will get severely annoyed by the low volt shock when it behaves it ways you don’t approve of. Given enough time, your dog will learn the causal sequence of things – that ever unwanted behavior is followed up by an annoying shock.