Dog Training Collars

Truly, dogs are remarkably quick in associations. Look at Pavlov’s dog. Pavlov is a psychologist that performed an experiment on his dog. When it was time to feed his pet, he first rung the bell and afterwhich he set the food bowl. He repeatedly made this, ringing the bell, setting the food, ringing the bell and setting the food. Afterwards, the dog had firmly linked the sound of the bell with its time to be fed and the dog would even salivate when it hears the bell, even when there was no food.

As a point of fact, this is the key behind dog training collars. In this way, you can make a rapid annoying, but not harmful instance that your dog will be able to link with unpleasant behaviors. Let say for example, if your dog loves pulling things when you go out for walks, you can have a prong collar for it to wear so that whenever it pulls, you can quickly check this wrong behavior by just pulling and loosening the cord. Later on, with your constant response to this kind of behavior, it will associate the tweak with its fondness to pull. The negative experience is coupled with the negative behavior and your dog will stop the negative behavior to avoid the negative experience.

Whether you choose a head halter or a prong collar is up to your dog’s temperament, your training style, and the behaviors you are trying to correct. Electronic dog training collars these days have become a big market in pet shops to correct highly active dogs. This kind of training collar is convenient as you are not required to be physically tagged to your dog to train it. For example, if your dog barks at the mailman or at birds flying past the window, an electronic dog training collar can correct the behavior remotely. These type of collars have an automatic setting that can be set ahead to expel a spray, an ultrasonic sound which can be heard only by dogs, or a static shock at any bark beyond the predetermined intensity.

Also, these types of dog training collars have the capacity for manual issuance of the minor nuisance for you to correct behaviors that are not bark-related. In fact, the highlights of electronic training collars have achieved credits with experienced trainers of dog. Make sure that you use a little reward-based optimistic support with any dog training collar and you will have the best behaved pooch less time!