Remote Collar Training for the Pet Owner

Remote Collar Training for the Pet Owner

with Ed Frawley

106 Videos

6 hours, 13 minutes

 An Overview of Remote Collar Training

What is the content? How is it organized?

There are a lot of opinions on remote collar training systems. Those opinions vary depending the group trainers using remotes.

1- There are pet owners who just buy a collar because their dog won't come when called and without any training, they start to SHOCK the dog. 

2- There are dog sport competitors who want to fine-tune behaviors required in their competitions.

3- There are professional dog trainers who use remote collars on clients' dogs. Their reasoning is that "time is money and their clients want their dogs trained as quickly as possible because leaving their dog with a pro is not cheap.

Each of these groups uses a collar differently. 

1 - Pet owners quickly learn that stimulating their dog at high levels quickly results in their dog becoming confused and hating training sessions.  They end up with relationship problems with their dogs and some dogs never forgive their owners.

2 - People in the second group use low-level stimulation in their dog training. There a sub-groups in this category.

There are those who use the collar too much and never properly fade the remote from their training program. These people are basically nagging their dogs throughout their training sessions. This results in the dog being conditioned to the feeling of low level stimulation which they eventually just ignore, especially when the dog is in an environment with higher levels of distractions.

3 - As a general rule professional dog trainers use avoidance training methods (because they are quicker) with higher levels of stimulation.  Success is based on the trainer understanding avoidance training and having perfect timing. In 60-plus years of dog training, I never met a new dog trainer with perfect timing. 

The second problem with dog owners who hire a pro is the dogs learn to do what the pro asks, usually rather quickly. The problem is when the dog goes home the dog owners do not understand the system, they cannot duplicate the training system that has been used on their dog and the dog often reverts back to its old ways. 

The purpose of a remote collar is not to punish a dog for not minding, but rather to redirect a dog from a distraction and get it to comply with what we are asking it to do with the least amount of force possible.

I purchased my first remote collar in 1978 and produced the first version of this course as a DVD in 2008. Quite frankly the information in this new course (which was produced in 2019) is light years ahead of what I put into that DVD 11 years ago. 

Training dogs with remote collars is one of the most misunderstood dog training tools ever invented. This course is going to simplify the training program for remote collars. It will also demystify old myths concerning "electric collar training".

We show new trainers that remote collars do not have to hurt our dogs. We also help trainers understand exactly when and how they should add collar training to their obedience program. Doing this correctly solves many behavioral problems people have when they don't use remote collars the correct way.

We cover how to select the right collar for you and your dog. Our feeling is that remote collars should be very easy to learn and simple to operate. Too many collars today have bells and whistles that only complicate their operation. 

In a step-by-step manner, we cover when and how to introduce a dog to the feeling of low-level stimulation. When this is done correctly our dogs do not get stressed. They also learn that stimulation doesn't hurt. 

Once the dog has been introduced to what stimulation feels like we have a protocol that determines the dog's working level of stimulation.  Every dog is different. You will see that breed and size has nothing to do with what level of stimulation a dog needs to work.

In the segment titled "Determining Your Dog's Working Level of Stimulation" you will watch us go through the training protocol with 14 dogs of different breeds and sizes. That segment will convince you that every dog is different and the size of the dog has nothing to do with how it reacts to stimulation.

There is an old myth that remote collar training is painful to the dog. That may have been the case many years ago, but today that is 100% not the case. We teach pet owners to use low-level stimulation that is not at all painful.  We compare working stimulation levels to a tap on the dog's shoulder reminding him that it needs to pay attention and follow directions.

The beauty of remote collars can be seen when our dog is put in a highly distracting environment. With the remote, we have the ability to stop our dog from chasing distractions that may be in our working environment.

The methods we used to determine our dog's working levels of stimulation have changed. We have learned a lot about working levels over the past 11 years. We learned that when dogs are correctly introduced to the feeling of low-level stimulation they will respond to levels so low that we humans cannot even feel the stimulation. 

 COURSE OUTLINE 

Module 1 - Introduction

Segment 1 - Meet Ed Frawley

Segment 2 - The History of Remote Collars

Segment 3 - Prerequisites to Start Training Your Dog With Remote Collars

Module 2 - Selecting Your Remote Collar

Segment 1 - Terminology

Segment 2 - Features you Need and Don’t Need on  Your Remote Collar

Segment 3 - Dogtra Collars

Segment 4 - E-Collar Technology Collars

Segment 5 - Selecting After Market Collar Straps

Segment 6 - Charging Your Collar

Segment 7 - No-Bark Collars vs Remote Collars

Module 3 - Habituating Your Dog To The Collar

Segment 1 - Correctly Fitting Your Remote Collar

Segment 2 - Habituating Your Dog to Wearing the Collar

Module 4 - Determining Your Dog's Stimulation Levels

Segment 1 - Test Stimulation Levels on Yourself First

Segment 2 - Introducing Our Dog to Low-level Stimulation

Segment 3 - Establishing Our Dogs Working Stimulation Levels

Module 5 - Training The Dog with Remote

Segment 1 - Pairing the Leash and Remote Collar

Segment 2 - Get on the Dog Bed

Segment 3 - Sit - Down - Recall

Segment 4 - Walks and More on Recalls

Segment 5 - Leave-It or Yuck Command

Segment 6 - Aggressive and Reactive Dogs

Module 6 - Where to Go From Here