If you saw the strict collar intended for training of dogs it can cause in you association with the medieval tool of tortures. Internal thorns on it look enough threateningly, apparently, that the dog anyway, even at good behavior will experience in it physical tortures. But the professional instructors training guard dogs recommend its use as an obedience training method, checked and safe for an animal.
For what use a strict collarStrict collar – at all not the tool of the sadist necessary in order that as it is possible to smother more painfully an animal as many think. Some owners indignantly reject this accessory which, according to them, assumes rough and dog abuse. But at proper handling a strict collar one of the most effective ways of training and correction of behavior of an animal.
It is put on so that thorns adjoined to wool and leather of a dog in those places which are used by the feeding boughs and leaders of pack. The first - for an educational scolding of puppies, the second – claiming the prepotent superiority. The strict collar which use every time when process of training and the training interaction of the owner with a dog begins will quickly and effectively teach her to go, without pulling a lead and, besides, will inform of the adjusting instructions a dog. It is the safe and humane tool facilitating mutual understanding, it is only necessary to use it correctly.
For training of puppies the strict collars are not used as they can wound a dog who just begins to comprehend obedience elements.
As it is correct to use a strict collarFirst of all, it is necessary to learn to put it on a dog correctly. The size of a collar is selected on the weight of an animal and then is regulated in the place by means of removable links or the special tightening chain. He has to sit rather densely not to slide off and at the same time to smother a dog – between thorns and her neck there has to be a distance in a finger. It is necessary to remove and put on a collar very accurately that, having carelessly shaken the head, the dog did not injure to herself an eye. Having put on a collar, check whether correctly you made it. For this purpose pull it up or down for a free loop after you release a tension, the collar has to return on the former place and take a free position on a neck of a dog.
It is possible to replace a strict collar when training with other similar adaptation – a collar stun gun.
During training that at a dog the accustoming reflex was not developed, the collar should be put on in advance. Otherwise it can turn out so that the dog will behave obediently only when it on her. When you work teams, the breakthrough for a strict collar needs to be done only to modify behavior of an animal, and right after correctly actions it is recommended to stroke and praise a dog. The beginner is recommended to provide training of the pet with a strict collar under supervision of the trainer.