E-Collars

[RuthyC3P]

What is your opinion on E-Collars for a dog who is an escape artist?

[ButchCappel]

Ruthy
For me an E-collar is a tool, no different than any other training tool. You
will still have to set the dog up, or catch him escaping, so I don't know why an e-collar would be any more effective than any other correction, but if you know how to use it, it will certainly do the job.

The down side is that most dogs figure out when they are wearing the collar and when not, and dogs are a patient bunch. So you do need proper instruction, and that may still not work. I have seen dogs that have figured out wehn they are wearing the collar that the handler did not have the transmitter in hand and knew they could ignore all they wanted to.

[WKs Cleo]

Hello Butch.

I recently visited an obedience & pp trainer. Now his demo dog, Belgian Malinois, had an e-collar strapped to his waist, stifle area. My question is, will you get the same effect from the e-collar strapped onto the waist area, as opposed to the neck area?

Tony

[ButchCappel]

Tony

The flank is much more sensitive and may be used when the dog has built up a tolerance for electric stimulation from other areas.

Don't know if that is what that trainer had in mind by doing it but it is one reason for that placemsnt.

[WKs Cleo]

Oooh. Thanks for the info Butch. :ok: Plus I learned, not the waist, but the flank.:)

Regards