Thread: Shock collar recommendatiins

Originally Posted by Bavarian_Hunter

My brother and I had different views on the collar, ethics of it don't bother me just effectiveness.

Brother got one and when it's on it works great. Issue is that it doesn't fix the issue, it just addresses the symptom. As soon as it's off or the battery goes dead his dog does what he wants.

You're far better off in the long run just putting the extra work into your dog with obedience. I went that direction now no matter what great things there are to chase my girl doesn't leave my side - no batteries required.

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This makes a heap of sense. It's nothing to do about ethics, just effectiveness. Part of your issue is yelling at a dog treeing a coon. That only encourages them... the dog doesn;t know wtf you're saying and it's yelling, now you're yelling and encouraging it.... from its point of view. Walking off and having it catch you up would have been all you needed really to fix this. It might have taken a couple of weeks but would have worked, still will. Just don;t "join in" the activity by yelling and scragging the dog. The hiding a dog gets doing this is less than a good pig dog gets having a ball scragging a pig... like rugby, doesn't even feel the punches in the game... only later....

The e-collar will get a result, but it will be more like bogging up rust as opposed to welding in some good metal.

If you're determined to use the collar, get a good one, economics can be very false with these things.