I do not have any experience with an electrical collar with my dogs so maybe I should just shut up and read.
The fact is that I am trying to understand and would be happy if anyone of you could help me.
I go to training with my two CSW 2 or 3 times a week.
The training done is very soft, trying to change the way of training each time because our CSW soon get bored, they need each time something new.
I started when Oliver was 17 months, so quite grown up.
He makes quite a hassle when in contact with other males.
With humans he is even to friendly!!!
The main thing I appreciate from our training work is the great RESPECT my dog has for me, the great TRUST he has for me, the great CONFIDENCE he has in me.
I couldn't think of using an electrical collar, I think it would be TOO MUCH.
I like to think that hearing my voice for him should work even better than an electrical impulse.
Probably I'm wrong...maybe not.
2 small examples, meaning nothing, just interprete it as you want:
1) the other day a lady from a different training camp came to our camp asking us to use it for 20 mins because her other camp was shut.
She has a GS and uses electrical collar.
The dog was obeying brilliantly and the lady was kind of showing off...
The dog sometimes was not understanding her comands and so making mistakes: she was shouting at him and kicking his bottom
becasue of the mistakes (she was NOT using the collare at that moment).
In our camp NEVER have I seen a dog being hit or kicked.
2) I was with my two CSW in a small fenced area specially for dogs.2 separate areas to keep dogs apart.
There were various small dogs (males and females) and so I put Oliver, my 2 years old male in one area and Lunatica, my 10 months old female, in another together with all the other dogs. Oliver is too dominant so I'm scared he would annoy the other males. He would not harm them but just for playing he would toss them around and step on them and the owners don't like that...
Well, while I was in one area Oliver just JUMPED the fence (1.6m) and entered our area where all the other dogs also males, were.
I didn't know what to do
so I shouted SIIIIIT!!!.
He sat, instantly.
I was amazed....my voice, just my voiced, worked like an electrical impulse...
Respect works more than electricity!!!!
Massimo