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Do you have a dog that’s so nice to other people? This can be so bad (or good, since other people think it’s cute) that your dog keeps running away from you. A simple morning of going to your garden can end up with you wishing to tie up your dog, else you have to keep calling him back and running after him. If your dog has increasing moments of ignoring your calls just to run after people, other animals, and even cars, you’re dog needs a remote dog collar.

Background

Some dog owners wish they could make their dogs heed their call at the click of a button, like using the remote control for your television. With a remote dog collar, that wish can actually come true. Before this technology became widespread in obedience training, teaching a dog to stay put, or to obey commands took a long time. One had to expose one’s dog to a situation where the problem behavior could be manifested, and then one had to punish the dog right after. Naturally, rewards came when the dog heeded your calls.

How technology eased up the dog obedience training program

The same waiting still does happen, but it takes a shorter time to teach your dog what to avoid doing; the remote transmitter in your hand means an instant punishment/correction that the dog experiences. The possible doggie problems are as varied as a grocery list – from chasing cars, to chewing on shoes, to running after small kids.

Results at your fingertips

You won’t have to keep your dog on a tight lease, ready to be yanked back, should it not do as you say. The modern leash-yanking happens with a transmitted in your hand an remotely activated collar on your dog’s neck. That means, whether your have one small dog that keeps running around, or several sheep dogs on your ranch, a remote dog collar can help you keep a “leash” on them.

How it works

Essentially, a remote dog collar just waits for your transmitted signal to release a static correction. You might get exhausted with a leash – you may even have to yank it when restraining your dog in public – but that fatigue and inconvenience is gone with a remote collar. Your dog gets “annoyed” by a static every time it behaves in unwanted ways. Over time your dog links the behavior with the onset of a static shock and soon it will avoid the behavior to be spared of the shock.

Every dog that is adopted needs at least a bit of training. That’s because you want a fun and enjoyable companion, but you don’t want that companion to create you problems unintentionally with the people you live or with your neighbors. You might remember a time where you wanted to work, study, or sleep, but you couldn’t because a neighbor’s dog kept barking. If this has happened to you, I bet you don’t want to put someone else in such a situation either.

There are different products that offer solutions to get dogs to stop their barking or to reduce it to much more acceptable levels. One of the most popular anti bark products available today is the remote trainer.

The Principle

The remote collar works differently than the way other types of training collars work, like the citronella collar or the electronic bark collar. The biggest difference is that you control the collar yourself. Because of this, you can get much more focused training sessions than with the other types of collars, which work on their own while the dog wears them.

Of course, in order to have effective training with the remote collar, you need to be right next to your dog when it wears it. You will teach commands or behavior patterns to the dog, one at a time, and if the dog doesn’t obey, you’ll use the collar to correct it. The remote control that comes with the collar should be in your hand at all times during training, and the moment you press the button in it, the collar will correct the dog with a small static electricity shock delivered through two prongs that are located on the inside of the collar.

When you strap the collar onto your dog’s neck you will see that there are two probes coming out of the collar, which must come into direct contact with the dog’s skin in order to work

If you are worried about the remote trainer harming your dog, don’t. You have felt static electricity when you walk on a carpet and touch a steel doorknob, so you know that it just scares you, but doesn’t hurt you. Many people consider the remote dog collar to be cruel but unless you’re willing to test it yourself (which many people are afraid of) you won’t know the exact feeling it gives. In the event that you are too worried about it causing pain know that there are other options available to you.