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E collar recommendations

Oh Little Oji said:
So you like your white-noise machine? We need to get one and are looking for recommendations. A battery backup would be awesome!! We are a family that is addicted to having fans on in order to sleep – a box-fan outside our daughter's door, which blocks noise in our small house. But it takes a lot of electricity, and Lord help us if the power goes out!
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We have an ancient one from Brookstone. My husband had it from his bachelor apartment living days. I don't know how it hasn't gotten lost in the 7 moves we've made since we've been married. It's lasted through both my girls infant/toddler years and now in hotels when traveling with the dogs. I've lost the power cord and we run it by the backup batteries.
I'm sure Brookstone still makes them but they have also gotten popular in the infant/toddler market so maybe a Babies R Us.
So yes, we love our white noise machine.
 
Oh Little Oji said:
So you like your white-noise machine? We need to get one and are looking for recommendations. A battery backup would be awesome!! We are a family that is addicted to having fans on in order to sleep – a box-fan outside our daughter's door, which blocks noise in our small house. But it takes a lot of electricity, and Lord help us if the power goes out!
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There are lots of phone apps out there for free, if that's an option. Usually you can 'build your own sounds,' too.
 
LifeofRubie said:
There are lots of phone apps out there for free, if that's an option. Usually you can 'build your own sounds,' too.
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Actually, yeah. We have tried a coupe fan-noise apps on the phone. One was better than the other. Hmm. Good suggestion. If it could be loud enough and not too high-pitched.
 
Just ordered a collar off Educator. It was a toss up between Educator, Dogtra and Sport Dogs (all recommended on this thread) but this one was the least expensive of similar models across the manufacturers. Eager to get this started. Our biggest *issue* at the moment is balls at the dog park (which I have very mixed feelings about but who am I). Rubie could not care less about a tennis ball at home but if a dog at the park has one, she MUST HAVE IT. And then will run around with it, destroying it and swallowing pieces of it. She will still 'recall' but she'll run by just far enough and fast enough that you can't catch her. Hopefully it will also help with unnecessary barking while camping, etc., and learning to leave the cat alone. Fingers crossed!
 
Drogon said:
Toys at a dog park is just an dog fight waiting to happen. Like you mentioned 'she MUST HAVE IT'. Some dogs take that to the extreme and will fight to get it.
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I totally agree but since I don't see people wising up any time soon, guess it's on us to teach Rubes that leaving it be is the best course of action. :facepalm:When I do eventually get the ball back, I usually just throw it away and don't offer it back to the person who lost it. Minor victories, I suppose.
 
I would avoid the dog park then, my son works for a vet and said he has seen more deaths in dogs due to tennis ball either choking or causing a blockage. I also train the ecollar with low stimulation so I can communicate what I need during training when they are away from me. If you want to stop your dog from going after a ball you need to train whistle backs or call offs first before shocking your dog.
 
Doberman Gang said:
I would avoid the dog park then, my son works for a vet and said he has seen more deaths in dogs due to tennis ball either choking or causing a blockage. I also train the ecollar with low stimulation so I can communicate what I need during training when they are away from me. If you want to stop your dog from going after a ball you need to train whistle backs or call offs first before shocking your dog.
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My last boy passed away from tennis ball blockage so I am all too familiar with that issue.

I really just want to strengthen her 'leave it' command or at least get her to recall properly when she has a high value item. Of course we'll do most of our work in the house and what not but I want her to be more responsive to those commands in that setting. This will be my first time training with an E collar so we'll take it slow.
 
If it's not too much of an inconvenience, can I get a link or two to where I can purchase these collars mentioned? I want to make sure I get the right one for Blitz.
 
 
squeedobie said:
If it's not too much of an inconvenience, can I get a link or two to where I can purchase these collars mentioned? I want to make sure I get the right one for Blitz.
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I found mine on ebay. But I also sent the link of what I was considering to my trainer for confirmation it was the right thing before buying!

Uodate, we started Mischa on correction Sunday after our cgc class. My trainer does IPO with her very high drive GSDs and says "Atlas works on a 15 on the dogtra, let's start Mischa at 5"... she finally started to respond around 17. Once we threw in the kids playing and a tennis ball, she was at about a 21. I'll admit though I am absolutely AMAZED at her response to it! Seriously this is a whole different dog. Why exactly did I wait so long to splurge on an e collar!? I very highly recommend this training, regardless of brand. I am however very happy so far with the dogtra iq, and the waterproof collar is a huge plus since she loves to swim and we can use it in the river if needed.
 
squeedobie said:
If it's not too much of an inconvenience, can I get a link or two to where I can purchase these collars mentioned? I want to make sure I get the right one for Blitz.
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Just make sure you wait until he is older and fully well knows the command you are using the ecollar for. I like to wait until they are atleast a year. Until then I work on cleaning up the command, then use the ecollar for backup (I personally only use it for recall for safety reasons like blowing off a recall to chase prey). You want them to fully understand what you taught them first in case the ecollar isn't on. The ecollar is just another means to reinforce what was taught. :)

Glad to hear it's going well for Mischa, @MischasMomma! One day you will have a reliable off leash girlie!
 
Rits said:
Just make sure you wait until he is older and fully well knows the command you are using the ecollar for. I like to wait until they are atleast a year. Until then I work on cleaning up the command, then use the ecollar for backup (I personally only use it for recall for safety reasons like blowing off a recall to chase prey). You want them to fully understand what you taught them first in case the ecollar isn't on. The ecollar is just another means to reinforce what was taught. :)

Glad to hear it's going well for Mischa, @MischasMomma! One day you will have a reliable off leash girlie!
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Fully agree!! Right now we are only using it for recall amd leave it (the cat lol) it took her twice, and the rest of our session she didn't need correction at all, the second I called her she was at my side. Worked quick on the cat too, and he wasn't expecting and chased her full force across the house as she was trying to get away from him! I sort of felt bad for her haha he's not used to not having to "fight back". We started with her normal 6 ft lead and I'd call when she got distracted. Then moved to a 20 ft, then off leash (inside the training building). I've read more on it, Nepopo training is what we're using. I'm very impressed so far.
 
MischasMomma said:
Fully agree!! Right now we are only using it for recall amd leave it (the cat lol) it took her twice, and the rest of our session she didn't need correction at all, the second I called her she was at my side. Worked quick on the cat too, and he wasn't expecting and chased her full force across the house as she was trying to get away from him! I sort of felt bad for her haha he's not used to not having to "fight back". We started with her normal 6 ft lead and I'd call when she got distracted. Then moved to a 20 ft, then off leash (inside the training building). I've read more on it, Nepopo training is what we're using. I'm very impressed so far.
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Yes, I'm glad you're having success, too! We were a little hesitant, too, but I started reading and noticed that pretty much whenever I've seen someone with an e-Collar on their dog, they were using it incorrectly :(

We've been working on fine tuning the 'heel' position. No matter how long our leash (we use a 3ft and 5ft), Rubie ALWAYS wanted to walk at the end of it instead of staying near our legs. Now she stays put, even if she's on alert because of something going on. I just started introducing the recall aspect - she's typically very good, except when she has something she gives high value to. I'm eager to start training her to leave the cat alone. Stella kitty is so sweet and just wants to be near her family but Rubie throws a FIT whenever she sees her.
 
They really are so smart and catch on quickly.

Now our problem with Princess is she knows if I forget the transmitter (mine in on a lanyard and hangs around my neck) that she can push it and get away with more stuff and when the battery is dying. I have a tone on mine and the tone sounds different. She still obeys it's just not as quick.
 
My2Girls said:
They really are so smart and catch on quickly.

Now our problem with Princess is she knows if I forget the transmitter (mine in on a lanyard and hangs around my neck) that she can push it and get away with more stuff and when the battery is dying. I have a tone on mine and the tone sounds different. She still obeys it's just not as quick.
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Mine hangs on a lanyard too!! How do you use it for heel? That's one we really need to work on and I wasn't sure how to correctly use this for that behavior.
 
MischasMomma said:
Mine hangs on a lanyard too!! How do you use it for heel? That's one we really need to work on and I wasn't sure how to correctly use this for that behavior.
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Similar to when teaching them on a flat or prong collar. If they start to pull ahead, do an abrupt about right and give them a stim. When learning with the e-collar, I did use her prong collar also since that was a feeling she was familiar with. When the prong collar tightened, the stim came too. Did a lot of turns and loops and speed changes in front of the house to get used to it - didn't even really bother going for a 'walk' that night, just working on the collar and what it meant. Been walking with the e-collar and flat collar ever since (mind you, a whole 5 days). There were some good resources I read online that all seemed pretty the same in methodology.

https://www.collarclinic.com/Manuals/basictraining.pdf

http://www.sportdog.com/media/downloads/Training_Guide.pdf
 
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