Thread: Shock collar recommendatiins

There's an outfit in Dunners that has them, I've got two sets and the are good. Any problems and they are straight onto it. hogdogs.co.nz

Originally Posted by Wirehunt

There's an outfit in Dunners that has them, I've got two sets and the are good. Any problems and they are straight onto it. hogdogs.co.nz

Brought stuff off the in he past and been happy. Ended up with one from mgg will take it out this evening and see how it goes. 600m range which should be plenty for most areas I go to, thick bush but usually less than 100m. 16settings for shock and vibrate and a tone function as well, Put it on 3 and tested it myself.... Bloody hell wouldn't want it any higher

I got a Garmin pro sport dog collar,
Works super well, use the vibrate function to bring my gsp back when she runs off too far or decides to chase stuff,
Highly reccomended

This is the one i have and use, Only use the vibrate function to remind my dog on distance, and to be fair she has raced off after rabbits and is given a reminder she is a deer dog. Almost to the point we dont need it on at all......


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Hamish

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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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.

You just described half of the Pointer and Setter clubs dogs Bavarian hunter...

I reckon by the time you know enough about dog psychology and training you don't need one.

Flame away

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."