April 29, 2011
One of our dogs is dominant aggressive and last year fought with our 10 year old GSD and caused her death. Would proper use of the electric collar resolve this?
Full Question:
Dear Mr. Frawley,Spoke with Ashley to order E-collar and she recommended I consult with you regard the proper equipment for the problem.
The pack consist of 2 female GSD, 1 male GSD and 1 male Golden Retriever.
The male GSD is Alpha and the 3 year old female is dominant and aggressive to the other 3 year old female. She is in a constant state of challenging and threatening but only to the other female. They have fought on numerous occasions.
Her companion type training was from beginning to advance. She is fine with adults and children.
Last year she fought with our 10 year old female GSD and caused her death.
Would the proper use of an E-collar resolve this issue?
Thank you for your interest.
Sincerely,
Robert
Cindy's Answer:
The ecollar may be implemented into your training but I would not recommend it as a starting point for this particular dog. Any dog that is aggressive enough to cause fatal injury to another may only be stimulated to more aggression when the electric collar is used without proper preparation.
I’d recommend starting off with increasing the pack structure for all your dogs. I’d start with our Groundwork program and the video that picks up where the article leaves off; Pack Structure for the Family Pet.
I also believe that this DVD could really help you. It’s titled DEALING WITH DOMINANT AND AGGRESSIVE DOGS and was a 5 year project.
I would use a muzzle and a dominant dog collar.
once you have more leadership and control THEN you can start to implement the ecollar. We produced a training DVD titled ELECTRIC COLLAR TRAINING FOR THE PET OWNER. In this DVD Ed teaches people how to handle the foundation training and then how to use the collar.
Many trainers, especially hunting dog trainers and even some professional dog trainers use “escape training” when they train with remote collars. This is where they stimulate the dog, give it a command and then teach the dog how to turn the stimulation OFF by doing what’s told.
I don’t agree with "escape training." I don’t think its fair to the dog. He is being stimulated before he is even asked to do something. In my opinion this is ass end backward.
Rather I believe in using the collar to reinforce a voice correction. In other words, I always tell my dog “NO” before I correct him. I give him the opportunity to change his behavior. My goal is to always teach my dog to follow my voice command.
If you read the article titled THE THEORY OF CORRECTIONS IN DOG TRAINING you will understand how to approach corrections. In the DVD Ed simply applies that philosophy to remote collar training.
The article explains how to determine the level of correction to use on each dog. This varies according to the temperament and drive of the dog along with the level of distraction it’s currently facing at that moment in time.
This DVD shows how to determine what level of stimulation to use on your dog. That’s important.
In this DVD we never used a level higher than a medium and most of the time it was on the low settings for every dog we trained.
We use a Dogtra 280 NCP or Dogtra 1900 NCP on our personal dogs.
Other companies sell cheaper collars but in the remote collar business you get what you pay for.
I hope this helps.
Cindy
I’d recommend starting off with increasing the pack structure for all your dogs. I’d start with our Groundwork program and the video that picks up where the article leaves off; Pack Structure for the Family Pet.
I also believe that this DVD could really help you. It’s titled DEALING WITH DOMINANT AND AGGRESSIVE DOGS and was a 5 year project.
I would use a muzzle and a dominant dog collar.
once you have more leadership and control THEN you can start to implement the ecollar. We produced a training DVD titled ELECTRIC COLLAR TRAINING FOR THE PET OWNER. In this DVD Ed teaches people how to handle the foundation training and then how to use the collar.
Many trainers, especially hunting dog trainers and even some professional dog trainers use “escape training” when they train with remote collars. This is where they stimulate the dog, give it a command and then teach the dog how to turn the stimulation OFF by doing what’s told.
I don’t agree with "escape training." I don’t think its fair to the dog. He is being stimulated before he is even asked to do something. In my opinion this is ass end backward.
Rather I believe in using the collar to reinforce a voice correction. In other words, I always tell my dog “NO” before I correct him. I give him the opportunity to change his behavior. My goal is to always teach my dog to follow my voice command.
If you read the article titled THE THEORY OF CORRECTIONS IN DOG TRAINING you will understand how to approach corrections. In the DVD Ed simply applies that philosophy to remote collar training.
The article explains how to determine the level of correction to use on each dog. This varies according to the temperament and drive of the dog along with the level of distraction it’s currently facing at that moment in time.
This DVD shows how to determine what level of stimulation to use on your dog. That’s important.
In this DVD we never used a level higher than a medium and most of the time it was on the low settings for every dog we trained.
We use a Dogtra 280 NCP or Dogtra 1900 NCP on our personal dogs.
Other companies sell cheaper collars but in the remote collar business you get what you pay for.
I hope this helps.
Cindy
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