Quote: roni hoff

Otherwise, I'd say it's possible she's being dramatic like Alyssa said; I have a dog very sensitive to a correction; it doesn't matter if it's an ecollar at 20 or 60 or just a stern "Pfui!". It's not so much the stim as it is the correction itself. He's a sensitive dog.

I would like to respond to clear up some misunderstanding. Dogs react to the stim, based on their genetic makeup, ie sensitivity level, both physical and emotional in response to the tools we use paired with our behavior. When we use the e collar, most people are not doing anything, just turning the button up or down, there the dog is only responding to the stim based on their physical sensitivity level. If the dog responded to PFUi,
you wouldn't need any additional tools. Dogs are NOT DRAMA QUEENS. They simply react....to all stimuli, based on their genetic makeup, environment, and previous training.
Hope this helps,
Roni

I wasn't clear in my post ; I was attempting to paraphrase about my own very sensitive/very soft dog more affected by the fact that he is receiving a correctionand not the correction itself. He is less sensitive w/an ecollar, though I hardly use it for correction, as he is to my verbal correction. Sorry if anyone took the "dramatic" word too literally.

IF the dog isn't getting consistent correction from the collar, which it certainly sounds like is the case, then the OP needs to start all over to determine what level is effective, when she is absolutely KNOWS it is touching her skin. Like I said earlier, you may have to trim a bit. I have one dog I have to do this with; he has extremely dense fur on his neck.

Roni, you're the ecollar expert- don't you think it sounds like it's not in proper contact if the dog ignores an extremely high level of stim and jumps at a low level? Or is there another explanation I'm not thinking of??? It doesn't sound like the dog was really deep in drive or anything at the time, which is one possible explanation for the sensitivity change.

I hardly use the ecollar for correction so I'm not much help...I just am in love w/that pager feature, lol.

Thanks for the advice Roni! I will definitely try this and post feedback as soon as I can.

 Quote: Jenni Williams

... I hardly use the ecollar for correction so I'm not much help...

Good idea not to advise, then ... which was why I PM'd Roni to please rescue this thread. I don't mean this personally. Just a general observation.

 Quote: Sharon Eliot

Thanks for the advice Roni! I will definitely try this and post feedback as soon as I can.

Good. Please let us know!

I am very curious to see if it was a contact issue; the varying levels of stim just didn't make any sense!

Erin, please don't forget to post back what the issue was when you get it sorted. It's easy to do when you don't have the problem anymore!

While, like I said, I don't use the ecollar for correction w/my current dogs (I WOULD, I just haven't had a need to lately), her reactions were very puzzling and I would love to know what the magic button was in the end-shaving/contact issue or otherwise.