There are many different types of collars and training devices available for use, we will discuss the choices that we recommend and use at DOGTRAIN. Our ultimate goal is a dog that is responsive to commands given on or off the leash. Any training collar should be looked at as a form of “training wheels”. The job of the collar is to enable the dog and handler to work comfortable together and ease the learning process. Also known as “setting up for success”.
Your instructor will help you decide which collar is best for you and your dog. There are good and bad points to any training collar and no one collar will prove to be ideal for every dog/handler combination. The more flexible we allow ourselves to be, the more options we have.
Whenever you are training with your dog in public he should be wearing his regular collar with his identification tags, no matter which training collar you are employing. There are times when you may want to reposition your dog by using his regular collar instead of your training collar. Also, in the event that you and your dog become separated from one another, having identification tags on your dog improve the odds of a speedy reunion.
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