mattuga
Banned
I know the title alone has people hoping I don't have a puppy trying to train with a shock collar, I do not. I have an 11 yo lab that would respond easily to a light shock (if noise alert doesn't work) but I've never used it as a training method other than seeing her on a her snake aversion training by the GA snake master. My dog has started breaking from the pit blind and I didn't have the knowledge to know how bad it is to let her retrieve a duck after she breaks. She started a couple years ago and I've never fixed it so obviously it has gotten worse but think I could fix on good few specific training sessions with followed up reinforcement. I don't want a dog that always needs a shock collar once that is the route chosen, if I am wrong, let me know. She's been heel/sit trained since she was 3 months old but I never used a shock collar to reinforce anything. The older she gets the less I want to smack her butt or ear pinch. She takes a simple butt smack to respond when she gets ornery and I'd rather have a remote. I'm planning on getting a new puppy soon and would be open to the do's/don'ts with a shock collar from a starting point.
I know dog guys have strong opinions on shock collars so feel free to blast away, I won't take it personal and others/myself might learn about the best and worst ways to apply shock collar training. I will put my next dog on a program, my current dog was a Richard Wolters book reading product so as has been discussed before there has been a lot of progression from those methods.
I think this forum could be a lot more active if more guys asked more qualified questions. I hope to have more respectable carnage pictures next year!
If this forum doesn't liven up the Ducksouth page on Facebook is great and active daily. Rocky Leflore has some hilarious podcasts coming out, it was started for the MS Delta hunter but funny to any duck hunter. VERY interesting stuff they talk about the shifting migration due to agricultural practices and it is really really interesting...when Bradley Ramsey is talking it is very educational on that front. The podcast is called "End of the Line", just google End of the line Podcast and enjoy the fun. There is a great series about Rocky and his story on building a duck lodge in the mid-90s. This podcast eats up my useless hours on the road instead of listening to music. Let me know if anyone else listens to it.
I know dog guys have strong opinions on shock collars so feel free to blast away, I won't take it personal and others/myself might learn about the best and worst ways to apply shock collar training. I will put my next dog on a program, my current dog was a Richard Wolters book reading product so as has been discussed before there has been a lot of progression from those methods.
I think this forum could be a lot more active if more guys asked more qualified questions. I hope to have more respectable carnage pictures next year!
If this forum doesn't liven up the Ducksouth page on Facebook is great and active daily. Rocky Leflore has some hilarious podcasts coming out, it was started for the MS Delta hunter but funny to any duck hunter. VERY interesting stuff they talk about the shifting migration due to agricultural practices and it is really really interesting...when Bradley Ramsey is talking it is very educational on that front. The podcast is called "End of the Line", just google End of the line Podcast and enjoy the fun. There is a great series about Rocky and his story on building a duck lodge in the mid-90s. This podcast eats up my useless hours on the road instead of listening to music. Let me know if anyone else listens to it.