Puppy Killing Birds

[ShrekDawg]

The half mile works for us because he tends to stick pretty close now. I thought we’d need the mile but we didn’t.

 

[Everose]

For anyone who cares to hear why correction and balanced training is so important:

 

[Geena]

I have no issue with e-collars used properly, on the right type of dog, and accompanied by training. The problem is a lot of people just put them on their dog and zap the crap out of them whenever they do something the person doesn't like. I've seen it over and over again and I've seen dogs completely ruined by such "training methods".

About a month ago I heard a dog making a big ruckus, went to investigate saw there was a border collie in the woods on the other side of my fence. It was steady yiking while running in tight circles, flipping through air and writhing on the ground. I thought maybe it was caught up in something, but nope, it was getting the zapped with it's e-collar by someone somewhere, probably from the subdivision next door. The dog obviously had no clue why this was happening or what to do about it.

A few years back I came across a little spaniel mix back in my woods that had not one, or two, but THREE e-collars on it. I'm guessing one was a bark collar, one was a fence collar and one was a training collar?? Who knows, but utterly ridiculous. I tried to catch the poor dog, but not surprisingly it was scared to death of me.

What bothers me the most in this forum is that people often recommend using an e-collar on very young pups that have had no training whatsoever, Like OPs four month old small breed pup.

It takes some time and know how, but I've managed to teach every single dog I've ever had (and I've had lots of dogs, of many different breeds) to come immediately when called. E-collars work, but when people rely on them they are most often depriving themselves of learning the finer points to animal training.

*I should add that I've never had either huskies or hound dogs.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Yeah, I try not to hit it if I can’t see him or if I do, I hit it once and wait a few minutes to give him a chance to come back. Not constantly buzzing. And I didn’t notice the age tbh definitely wouldn’t recommend younger than 6 months and personally I prefer closer to a year but yeah. And Brew’s mostly good but loves other dogs a bit too much and would take off hah same if he saw a bunny or squirrel. Insanely high prey drive. The collar helps him.

 

[Everose]

I never even said to put one on the lil guy
I think a lot needs to be established before using one.