Grrrip
The Original Double Handle Heavy Duty Dog Leash
4 feet long with built in 14 inch Traffic Handle
Preferred Equipment
Movement drills are a large part of our training courses. Too often we see dog owners practice the "sit & stare" when approaching dogs or people have triggered their dog's defensive or aggressive responses. Waving a treat in front of a dog lunging at someone passing in the park doesn't work. You may even be seeking training because you have tried this. How many times does your dog take the treat before their state of mind has changed and they just repeat the same problematic behavior? Dogs easily manipulate their owners with this style of training. The response of barking or even lunging must be interrupted. Movement of the body changes a dogs state of mind.
This dog is given slight leash pressure with a long line attached to a prong collar while simultaneously giving light stimulation from a remote collar as its owner calls its name with the "come" command. This is positive punishment.
This easy to use leash guides your dog into the perfect heeling position while using the traffic handle but also offers another handle at four feet long to give them freedom when needed
Once the dog has completed the command of "come" the owner gives large amounts of positive reinforcement with food, its favorite toy, or physical praise.
How our training is different: A majority of our clients begin training in their own homes where there is less distraction. Owners are taught to disassociate from punishment to maintain trust while reserving direct owner association for reinforcement. When owners have mastered new tools and techniques, their skills are tested in public group settings. These group settings prepare owners and their dogs for interactions with other dogs, people, busy traffic areas, and car trips all while maintaining their manners.
Prong Collars:
While these collars look painful, they offer the best way to communicate with your dog as they simulate the dogs own mothers guidance with her mouth.
Subtle movement of the leash provides guidance without a strangulation effect like flat collars, martingales, and choke chains. Herm-Sprenger offers the most dependable collars.
This is just one example of what can happen with the wrong techniques.
Remote Food Dispensers:
Allows owners to provide precisely timed positive reinforcement from up to 100 feet away.
Rewards with separation for obedience commands.
- Click HERE for a video demonstration
Remote Collars:
Act as an invisible leash to offer an interrupter for anxious unbalanced behavior.
Provides positive punishment until desired behavior is achieved to include low stimulation to complete commands.
Can help stop dangerous behavior like resource guarding, digging, jumping, bullying, scavenger eating.
Receivers with bungee straps ensure proper contact with the dogs skin without limiting their breathing. This allows longer duration training as well.
What does a remote collar NOT do?
A remote collar does NOT give direction. Direction is given by use of a leash, voice commands, hand signals.
Example: A dog that runs into a busy street will not know why the consequence of the remote collar has occurred but should be reeled in to a safe area with a long leash. The consequence of the remote is paired with the leash to guide the dog into proper behavior. In this case, a “recall”.
Dogs do NOT associate a person, a child, or another animal as the reason a remote collar is activated. Dogs associate their own actions as the reason a remote collar turned on and turned off. This reduces conflict when disciplining.
Operant Conditioning is the principle behind a popular type of training known as "Balanced". It is largely reward based however consequences are given for improper behavior. Most importantly, Reinforcement encourages behavior while Punishment discourages behavior.
There are four quadrants:
- Positive Reinforcement is the adding of reward of food, toys, or praise
- Negative Reinforcement is the removal of an uncomfortable stimulus like physical touch, leash pressure or a remote collar stimulation
- Positive Punishment is the adding of an uncomfortable stimulus like physical touch, leash pressure or a remote collar stimulation
- Negative Punishment is the removal of a reward of food, toys or praise
Next the dog begins to move towards its owner and the leash pressure. When remote collar stimulation stops this is negative reinforcment. Guidance can be given by excited calling of the dogs name and repeating the word "come".
Why E-Collar Technologies is our exclusive brand of remote collars:
After using many different brands we have picked E-Collar Technologies as the exclusive brand we use. “Blunt” not “sharp” stimulation is used by E-Collar Technologies which is a more consistent means of communication. What we have found is “blunt” stimulation does not suppress the dog's desire to work or learn. “Sharp” stimulation tends to slow the dogs process of learning.
We have discovered that clients often need less functions to keep the operation very simple. The ET-300 is the most affordable and offers programmability for continuous only, and boost which we prefer in our methods of training. Boost allows the user to have an “emergency” button for heightened aggression, or failed recalls where imminent dangers are present. A “lockout” function prevents accidentally over stimulating on the receiver.
E-Collar Technologies allows us to teach dog owners with a soundbox depicted in this video: