and I am so excited! I worked on correcting Kodee's recall, and let me tell you, it worked!!! He was shadowing me (like Ed mentioned in his E-Collar DVD) by the end of the 1st short session, but when I called, he came 100% of the time, even under a couple of pretty good distractions. He was headed towards his Flying Squirrel laying on the ground, and when I called, he turned right around, and looked back over his shoulder longingly at his squirrel a couple of times, but he never broke stride heading towards me. THAT is huge! His flying Squirrel toy is a pretty good (moderate) distraction for him, as he lives to play w/that thing!
I just had to give my little "testimonial" - and say Thanks to Ed. His DVD re: E-Collar training is a priceless training tool, as is the collar, of course.
It took a 23 out of 127 to get a reaction from Kodee in the house (no distraction). But once we got outside, I had to turn it up to 27/127 for training. My son was running around, horses in the next pasture, etc, so more distractions outdoors, of course.
Were the contact points ok? Dante looks like he has about the same coat thickness around the neck like your photo of Kodee. Did you need to get the 3/4" or 1" points?
I had a first with an e-collar yesterday too. It was the first time we worked on "leave it" with the e-collar. Wow is all I can say. We started with Ladybug's beloved frisbee and then I walked her to a stream to cool off. She found something nasty and was about to roll in it. One "leave it", a little nick, and she went right away from whatever was rotting there on the stream bank. Whoo-Hoo!
Anna - I bought the 3/4" contacts, and they're fine on Kodee, who has very thick fur around his neck! I put it on a Cinch-It collar. It's a lot easier - I can actually tighten it by counting the "clicks" of the Cinch-It (which is nice, because trying to count holes on a collar with all the fur he has on his neck is impossible). I tighten it to within 1 "click" of where it needs to be, then I take my fingers and work the fur away from the probes, then tighten it one more "click", and lock it on.
Works great! Good luck! We have actually had great success with him wanting to go after every animal he sees, by using the e-collar. He gets nicked when he gets interested (ears perk up and he looks). He actually managed to pass by 3 obnoxious dogs (2 in a chain link fence on one side of the bike trails, 1 on leash on the other side of us), and he growled low once, and kept walking w/me. HUGE improvement.
I'll pick up those extra contacts to have on hand. I spent some time last night looking through the e-collar area/threads and it's looking like the 280NCP is right on target for what I need.
I'm with ya on those situations where an e-collar is the right tool. I'm 4 days post injury on something that probably wouldn't have happened if I had one.
Here's an interesting experiment to try. Take the collar and the remote and give it to your family and friends. Tell them to hold the contacts in the palm of their hand and turn up the collar of the dogtra model, starting at 0, in increments of 5 and stim themselves.
I did that. Some people could feel the stim as low as a setting of 5. Others had to crank it up to 20 or 25 before they felt it.
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I put it on a Cinch-It collar. It's a lot easier - I can actually tighten it by counting the "clicks" of the Cinch-It (which is nice, because trying to count holes on a collar with all the fur he has on his neck is impossible). I tighten it to within 1 "click" of where it needs to be, then I take my fingers and work the fur away from the probes, then tighten it one more "click", and lock it on.
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