Thread: Shock collar recommendatiins

Something from the past (an old book called 'Dog People are Crazy' and this is about a guy who 'invented an electronic collar'. I think this must have been in the '60's or even earlier. The field trial section of the book was hilarious.

"The Inventor
About this time, an inventor fellow in our group tried to figure a way to throw a spark, in order to make his dog obey at a distance. He used a spark coil from an ancient Ford Model T car. But this didn’t work. So he decided to electrify a long raining rope.
He wired the training rope, and got his wife to sew some canvas into a carrying pack for batteries and spare coil. The training rope was attached to a special collar which had points to touch the dog’s neck skin.
This was a Rube Goldbergian type of apparatus, and rather formidable in appearance. The training fraternity was quite breathless to see it in operation. When the day came for the test, a crowd gathered, and a live pheasant was ‘planted’ ahead of the dog.
The dog picked up the scent of the pheasant and moved in to it. But the pheasant elected to run instead of flushing into the air. The man blew his whistle and yelled ‘hup’. As expected, the dog ignored both commands. So his owner turned on the juice.
The dog jumped 20 feet in surprise. But the gadget was somehow not properly grounded. The owner got the same shock, and jumped 40. The dog was so surprised, he came to heel, and quit hunting for the day. And that ended the experiment.
Now it’s been said that true inventions are always made in the proper scientific climate which means at the right time and place in history. My friend was trying to invent something 30 years too soon.
Today there is an electronic dog trainer available which works on the principle of the walkie-talkie. The receiver is fastened to the dog’s collar. And the owner can shock him when he refuses to obey, even at distances of 200 yards."