Thread: 'Correction' Collars

Any recommendations as to effective brands of remotely activated electric collars ..... seem to be plenty of potentially rubbishy options, but want something that will work. Got a Lab bitch that has developed distasteful (to us) table manners, and eats her own crap.

I use a SportDog collar which handles all the abuse of hunting.

Saves having to carry a doggy poo bag on walks

Garmin or Dogtra

Originally Posted by Maxx

Any recommendations as to effective brands of remotely activated electric collars ..... seem to be plenty of potentially rubbishy options, but want something that will work. Got a Lab bitch that has developed distasteful (to us) table manners, and eats her own crap.

Using an e-collar to correct this behaviour is not your best option.
Try adding mashed up pumpkin to her food, this works well as a deterrent.
There are other options along this line (pineapple and cider vinegar) but the pumpkin one has worked well for us with any dogs that eat their own crap.
Eating their own faeces can often be an indicator of other health issues, eg a lack of nutrition, internal parasites, etc. so you might want to check those out as well.

Originally Posted by duckdog

Using an e-collar to correct this behaviour is not your best option.
Try adding mashed up pumpkin to her food, this works well as a deterrent.
There are other options along this line (pineapple and cider vinegar) but the pumpkin one has worked well for us with any dogs that eat their own crap.
Eating their own faeces can often be an indicator of other health issues, eg a lack of nutrition, internal parasites, etc. so you might want to check those out as well.

Couldn’t agree more. A shock collar in this situation will not rectify an unseen issue.


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@Maxx my wife bakes Bella treats in the form of about dollar sized dog biscuits. One of the main ingredients is pumpkin. Maybe they might deter your dog. Bella loves them - she gets a couple or so a day as a treat.

has doggy been checked by a vet?

Originally Posted by Bobba

I use a SportDog collar which handles all the abuse of hunting.

I agree with Bobba. I’ve got a couple sportdog collars and they work great. Have been very sturdy and good in water as well. Large dog reacts very well even to the lowest setting

Yep .... has all the routine health checks.

She was whangai-ed by our previous Lab bitch ( gone 2 years now) and after a while started to eat her mentors crap..... while we didn't approve we viewed it as the highest form of flattery. When the old girl died that all stopped, but about 2-3 months ago she started to eat her own. She is discerning to the extent the leaves it to cure for an hour or three, and then comes back to it. Its not practical to follow her around and pick it up immediately she drops them as we have reasonably large section, so not always aware of where she has crapped. Then sometimes she drops them on the lawn, and they're gone later and we know what's happened to it ... we have observed her doing it.

Like with all training you need to let her know that it is not ok to eat crap. I'm not sure if you actively discouraged her from eating the other dogs crap, if not then she would have regarded that as ok to do. There is no shortcut, you will need to wait for her to drop a turd, then watch her like a hawk to catch her going up to it and when she does use your best "leave it" or other "NO" command ( I'm assuming you have a "leave it" command).

In some animals it can be a sign they are lacking some vits or minerals, but it can also just become a habit.

Good luck

I have known of a couple of cases where the dog is not fully processing its food before it is being passed, dogroll etc being wolfed down in one big bite, and not chewed or fed as smaller chunks. Thereby leaving undigested food in the faeces.

I’ve just bought a cheapo collar to deter our dog from barking at passer-byes, or ripping off after them if not contained. Has no road sense
So will be bowled one day.
So far, just using vibrations, stops her in her tracks.
Have a bark coller as well, but no remote, certainly controls barking around the property, set on vibration.
Have used the remote version about 6 times and am seeing results to commands and treats

Mine eats rabbit poo and a bit of horse poo.
We feed her the most expensive royal canin medium pup food for the moment.
Is it really because she lacks nutrients or minerals in her current food that she does it or is it because she enjoys the taste of it?

Friwi, horse crap would be one of the favourite for a heap of dogs as it is only partially digested. I would imagine rabbit would be the same.
We have some dogs at work that eat their kennel mates crap but only 1 out of 29 dogs that has ever eaten it's own crap and that was we we put that dog on a dog roll diet as he would crap out biscuits still looking like biscuits so had a problem with his digestive processes.