We may move to the suburbs this year. (From the hood.) At that point we'll have more gentile neighbors that might complain about Maggie's barking habits, and an anti-bark collar will become a must-have.
We may also have more oppurtunity to do off-lead work if we have a bigger yard, so a remote trainer would be nice, but not a must-have.
Can you use both on the same dog? (I'm guessing at least not at the same time.)
One mile north of me, there was a knife murder witnessed by several busload of kids and many passerby, and they still have not gotten an eywitness willing to ID the perpetrators to the police. Nobody is going to call the cops over a barking dog. Nobody is going to knock on the door and complain to someone that opens the door with a 100 lb dog at their side.
In the burbs my neighbors will not assume I'm violent or that the police are agents of evil. They'll have tools like noise complaints and lawsuits for pain and suffering.
Any differences in the collar acclimation period? (I'm going to get Ed's DVD on the matter, but I don't know if he covers the use of both collars?) Should I fully introduce one before the other? Include both collars in the random collar swapping?
My view has always been that I want the dog to fully understand what the bark collar is, ie, I want the dog to be collarwise to that specific collar.
I want the dog to learn that bark collar = corrections for barking. That way, my dog doesn't become skiddish about barking in general, it just learns to shut-up when the collar goes on.
With a a training e-collar, I definitely don't want my dog to get collarwise.
I'd randomize the e-collar, but make the bark collar obvious.
I have asked this exact question before (a long time ago) but it was never answered. My question was (maybe you can answer it, Alyssa)
How does the dog know the difference between its E-collar and its bark collar?
In other words, how does it know that one collar is to be minded (i.e. means "shut up now") and the other is to be not minded/ignored? (i.e. not associate corrections to the collar?)
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