April 28, 2011
What would be the best e-collar for my one year old great dane?
Full Question:
Hi Ed,I have purchased your dominant dog collar, e-collar, and dominant dog videos and was wanting to know what would be the best e-collar for my great dane of one year.
He has a bad habit of lunging at other dogs on our walk. I have fixed the problem mostly by spraying him with compressed air if he doesn't obey the 'leave it' command', but I think an e-collar might be a better solution with other uses also.
I have attached some pictures of him and my other dog over the past year.
Gavin
Ed's Answer:
Gavin,
Cool photos of your dog.
For a great dane I would recommend the Dogtra 1900NCP.
The way to do this training is to give stimulation when your dog even looks at another dog. Don't wait for him to light up on a dog. Just looking gets a high level stimulation - your goal here is to extinguish this behavior its not to train him an exercise. When you do training you use low level - when you extinguish a behavior you use high level.
When you see that your dog looks away from a new dog you know your training is working - at that point you can lower to level back to a low level stimulation and often times a 'nick"
People screw this up when they start low and go high on dog aggression. This often times teaches the dog to take the hit (s to speak) and fight through it.
When you do this work you should ALWAYS make your dog wear the collar when you walk - don't ever assume he will not revert back. When I was a k handler my dog wore his collar on every call-out. I seldom had to touch the button - maybe once in two times a slight nick.
Good luck with your dog.
Ed Frawley
Cool photos of your dog.
For a great dane I would recommend the Dogtra 1900NCP.
The way to do this training is to give stimulation when your dog even looks at another dog. Don't wait for him to light up on a dog. Just looking gets a high level stimulation - your goal here is to extinguish this behavior its not to train him an exercise. When you do training you use low level - when you extinguish a behavior you use high level.
When you see that your dog looks away from a new dog you know your training is working - at that point you can lower to level back to a low level stimulation and often times a 'nick"
People screw this up when they start low and go high on dog aggression. This often times teaches the dog to take the hit (s to speak) and fight through it.
When you do this work you should ALWAYS make your dog wear the collar when you walk - don't ever assume he will not revert back. When I was a k handler my dog wore his collar on every call-out. I seldom had to touch the button - maybe once in two times a slight nick.
Good luck with your dog.
Ed Frawley
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