Product Review

This DVD covers the 3 major training categories we use the e-collar for obedience, high arousal activities, and management. In this DVD you will learn how to take a dog that has been properly conditioned to the collar and in only a few short training sessions achieve the desired results through low level stimulation. This DVD assumes that the viewer has watched Part 1. Please review the terminology in Part 1 before watching this DVD. DVD Outline: Introduction: What this DVD covers. What advantages does the e-collar give (distance, timing, control of intensity, and impersonal correction). Why an e-collar? NOT the bigger stick! Obedience: A general note about the use of adversives in OB. Dog understands what I am asking Disobedience vs. mistakes Competing motivators Superstitious associations Improving the quality of behavior through the use of pressure Recall Heeling / Focus: How to use the collar for looking away and for breaking. Place Work: Foot targets and bed or mat work. Stays: Using the collar to punish breaking stays with competing motivators. Retrieve: Ways to improve retrieve through e-collar work. What situations to use and which to avoid. Loose Leash Walking: Slip leads and e-collars. Protection/High Arousal Activities: Special considerations, superstitious associations, higher arousal means higher levels, classically conditioned arousal response to punisher, damage to gripping behavior, aggression. Recalls: From biting and on the way to biting. Outs: Do's and don'ts of using the collar for outs. Secondary Control: Heeling and contact heeling. Management: We always try and address the underlying cause before, and during, using aversives on the symptoms. i.e. fear, lack of exercise, training, mental stimulation, and proper socialization. Barking: Sometimes bark collars are necessary. Counter Surfing, Chewing, Fence Jumping, etc.: Situations in which we want the correction to be impersonal and superstitious associations don't hurt us.