How to safely use the E Collar- Dog training with America’s Canine Educator
anyway the point is is the e-collar has has been a game changer and for my life like before I was even working with dogs professionally I was a wait a minute you’re telling me that I can and then whoa right and so the breakdown is fairly simple and I think it’s more important for the handler to understand what they’re using versus the actual piece of equipment right super important or the dog because you’re responsible of that can automate you and it’s just like it’s like so many different other things that we we have a cap on or we have limitations or rules apart and like driving right like I’m not so worried about the parked car sitting right there I’m more worried about the driver who doesn’t know how to hell the judge do you know what I mean so it’s really really important to understand how that you know where’s your owner’s manual of how to use these things because then we can then go out and say well wait a minute let me see your dog do this you know and you can literally snap your fingers and make your dog down in the middle of the field with other dogs because you can reach out and communicate to them so I want to break down the communication behind the e-collar and why it’s so effective and why it’s helped me save dogs lives but also help dog owners and their dogs tremendously first thing is is of course to the non e collar users shock collar bad right but at the same time we don’t we don’t then call death traps to every car that’s driving around because some idiot was an idiot right and also to be fair what we did 10 to 20 years ago is entirely different from what we did now when I say internet to people high school they don’t know what dial-up is right but like I do because I used to have it and I used to have the cord that went to the wall you catching my drift here so here’s my cord and the point is is we we’ve advanced in technology tremendously and we’re benefiting from it like I couldn’t run my business the way that I do and work with people all over the world without the the the progression technology why limit our dogs to that and the reason is is because 15 years ago they used it strictly as punishment they use it that’s all it was it had one level and it was just out that that would I would consider a shock collar right and some people are like hell yeah I’m gonna do that to my dog but I don’t I don’t care what they do couple things you could go to Pet Smart and you can go to Petco and buy a thirty to sixty dollar maybe I will say electric collar I’m not sure I don’t even know I haven’t look maybe I should and it’ll only have a couch announcer for the most part you may get like a beep or a vibrate but that’s all Association the corrective type of type of mechanism and tools so it’s just associating and correcting certain things but the thing about the e-collar is is if the dog doesn’t know what it is it freaks them right out so they associate let me put it to you this way a invisible fence is a perfect example of like what a shock collar is or what you go buy in stores that has two or three levels they associate certain things with unpleasant things right does that make sense yeah so when you put your flags out for your ear invisible fence because the American family would never put a shotcalling bug but they’ll get the invisible fence that has like the beautiful you know golden retriever on the side and and beautiful lawn and like that’s okay right because that’s what we do is marketing concepts is like this is okay and maybe it isn’t maybe it’s not but the point is is that is the same type of conditioning that like you’re using if you just correct the dog all the time they may get it they may not or they may but if they don’t get it completely you can mess them up so anyway you put your perimeter out with flags and the dog goes by in and all of a sudden they get nailed or bit by this thing and they’re like holy I hate that I don’t want to go near that again and then you go oh yeah my dog knows the whole perimeter my dog knows and every single square inch of this property and knows word not to go true but they don’t actually know your property and they just are associated that stump or that part of the area of the yard of paint of the e-collar should be associated as pleasant it should be associated as a communication based tool always because what’s the point of putting a tool on a dog and like turning it up like everyone else thinks you have to do and you’re like no when the dogs like this and you’re like no no I’m like ah I hate that I don’t want to see my dog like I’m like no that’s terrible to do why would you ever do something like that right and then a lot of times well people also do is they don’t understand the equipment so they’re on a – and they’re like sit and the dog says and they’re like but my dog didn’t jump they’re supposed to jump you know or Fido come and the dogs they then and then they crank it and then they make the dog jump and that’s not how you want to apply the e-collar it’s an association tool all right and so what you want to do is associate your voice with the e-collar it’s a conditioning thing that’s all that’s all it is and I’ll explain that you know in a little bit more depth here a minute but the most important thing I want people to understand with e-commerce is it’s it’s not a it’s not a hundred percent of corrective tool and it’s not always at first a corrected tool if you’re doing it properly it should be hey buddy this is now your new communication and they go hey you’re turning this on arching you go yep I think the other concepts I’ve been working with with working with dogs off leash as we’re starting to notice their their engagement with us off leash is entirely different and we always would say shame on the dog for not listening but in reality we’re training for four to six feet so when they’re 30 to 50 to 60 feet away they’re clocked out how are you going to get their attention how is it fair for them they’re not a man yet so if we can then take that tool and use that tool to say here is this and they go oh that’s interesting you could touch me from here without correcting them without shocking them without throwing them out of there out of their Gill you can say hey I got you here still and they’re like really really yeah watch come here and then it shuts off when they get to you just like you would with the leash pressure so it’s a pressure system and so that’s like one of the biggest theories I’ve kind of been messing with a bit is dogs aren’t bad off leash dogs just can’t be trained off leash with anything else but any car you have to be able to apply pressure somehow or you can sit here with a megaphone go please come back please like I’m begging you I really don’t want you to get by a car that dogs gonna eat you please come back right and so to be able to then literally reach out wirelessly like I can start my vehicle from here how freaking cool is that right and we’re all like super happy about all these advancements and you know you can do Apple pay and like that how about being able to literally reach out and touch your dog with the remote from a half a mile away and get them to come back to you when you’re on hike people are gonna be oh wow that’s magic no it’s an e-collar but the problem is is is that the people who don’t understand it that say it’s a shot-caller I get I get messages in commas little time I’m gonna put a shock collar on you I’m like I do it every day I put your car’s on myself every day to show people what it is that’s my job so I want to show you the process of the e-collar transition as far as timing goes because I think it’s insanely important for you to understand that first and then I’m gonna use it on her okay I show you with Krista the timing aspect of how you’re supposed to be doing this so there’s a lot of different functions on e-commerce and one of those functions is a vibrate do you hear that that’s going to the bowl she’s then making a noise so I don’t use the vibrate very often because like you said it’s kind of intense and the dogs like what the hell is that so I usually just use the stimulation which is much less than this but I want to show you the timing about how you should be doing this okay so just go that Crysta and the chris is going to be kind of my fake dog so what you’re gonna do is you’re gonna say Christmas come and then as soon as they come to you you shut it off and then as soon as she says whose squirrel Krista come and then you shut it off gender Spann yeah it’s the same thing what we’re doing here so the most important thing for the concept is is well it doesn’t yeah but they’re not like they’re not freaking out like he’s a lot of people think I want my dog like I want to see something like I want them to like it’s like what is this thing and it’s it’s just a low-level stimulation that they could feel and if you’ve ever been to the chiropractor they have a little stimulation system that they use that’s kind of like this little low spin and that’s what they call it here’s the skin it’s not like that here I’m going to shock the out of you no no no it’s a low level skin that you can feel it almost smells good and actually it does that’s why they use in chiropractor therapy right so same thing so here’s the association of how the e-collar works right so you start off on a very like lovely small level and all you do is you then you have the dog in the leash and then you sit good and they go huh whoa you okay but I haven’t want a leash and they understand that like I’m here right so picture it this way so now I’m working with with Krista or working with a human and every time I said hey Krista Krista Krista Krista and I said something right she’s gonna go okay that means you want something right so now picture it this way so three days go by and then for us to just go that way right and then actually first one so three day ago three days go by and I say Kristin tap krysta tap crisp attackers that person and she’s always gonna go what and I’m like can you can you do this so now if she’s going then forcing it so now if she off off off in the distance right and I can’t see her but then I go oh right so she understands that this is me wanting something so then she’s gonna go what the hell do you want guy right and I gotta go come and they go I know that sit that’s the other important thing about me coaching is you never run might push the green screen which is like I’ve never learned that what does that mean you always go hey Connor you know that sit good and it’s association but the key is is as soon as they’re behind door number two this still means something but you don’t have to touch him and you don’t need a leash so now you can go hiking swimming off leash anywhere and then you can also say hey Kristin you know go back to your seat or whatever and get them to do this all through this and it doesn’t hurt them it doesn’t scare them if you do it right so that’s the transition and that’s the same thing we’re gonna be doing it is hates it I don’t like oh and then they sit okay good they’re like wonder what that was right so I can’t feel that and then put it on your wrist and I know you don’t you don’t feel it at all right and it’s not meant to her yeah it’s work that’s the misconception is like you know people come into those shock collars and to me I’m like here we go right but at the same time I get to resurrect like no they’re not but here’s what they are because then the dog is a better life because they can go exercise and do all this stuff so I want to use my collar that way there’s no magic Creek going on where it’s like oh different collar different stuff nope is when I ask her to sit I want you to hit that top button when I asked okay and it’s the same level three thread on the right that you couldn’t feel I couldn’t feel my face right and then go ahead sit done it’s all it is she goes well that was different and I go yeah and she goes but it didn’t hurt right she’s not jumping squealing but you don’t want to do like what you said before is it well do I just like correct them every time or do I just only correct them when they’re bad room this is how you do it so every time I ask her to do something I want you to tap that for me and the reason why I’m making you do it’s good is on three because I don’t want you to think that I change the numbers in my pocket it’s the same thing so I’m gonna say okay you good you tap and then you tap yeah tap tap release yes good that’s the same level I had on my face I couldn’t feel the same level you thought I’m you couldn’t feel and she’s like huh right so just it’s just and the question I was getting do they do that yes dogs are more susceptible to electricity and we are we touch with the trick stuff all day so there’s a little bit more sensitive to it and so now what’s gonna happen it’s just like what I did with Krista is eventually I’m gonna go way over here and start using it behind closed doors and she’s gonna go wait do I still have to do it yeah gotcha right even she’s gonna go okay and she’s gonna work with me that way that’s a beautiful thing and it doesn’t do it doesn’t have any stress it doesn’t have any negative side effects however now if you crank that up to 77 and I said sit she’d go oh holy smokes and then I would be an idiot but then you would go yeah I don’t want you touching that anymore yeah you wouldn’t right you wouldn’t blame it on that you’d blame it on me and that’s why I don’t let anybody go home without the e-collar training because they have to learn it so it’s an association tool just like I just did with Krista if I tap it that means I want and so what you’ll do is five to ten minutes a day release good so now what’s happening is I’m not doing this because this is the old school way of what I told you how this is how we communicate yeah this is your dial-up you know can you hear that noise that’s what this is now we’re starting to say you got to listen to that now and so I say sit and I don’t touch dial-up it’s this new signal coming in and I say hey sit and they sit and they go oh okay and you go yeah we do it again and then again and then tomorrow going to do it the next day we’re gonna do it and then you’re gonna get it and then I’m gonna be able to do this and same thing I can say hey do this and she goes okay that’s it you know it’s a beautiful thing and I’m not saying that every caller out there is used properly because it’s not but if you this is the intentions of the the production of the e car and I’ve got a ton of behavior modification with it too because it’s not physical so I’m not physically saying no don’t and then Doug Turner getting pissed at me I’m just sitting here going like this no don’t and they’re like come again just chill out dude don’t do that again and then they don’t write and it’s Association thing so it helps me tremendously and I think my advantage to the e-collar training in general is I have done all types of training and I have worked with all different types of trainers in a very very like this is it the only way and I’m like no it’s not unfortunately for you and the dogs if you work with no it’s not fortunately for me I’ve seen like the repercussions of they don’t do it hey Cory no no my dog is my dog my responsibility if my kid runs out in the middle of the street and I say oh you know why we’re doing this you know why this is bad
