are E-collars accepted on shoots?

[casts_by_fly]

Hi guys,

 

My roxy has always worn an e-collar when we hunted. I never have to use it, but she is a little collar smart. So when it is on she listens perfectly. When it is off, it is hit or miss. I don't want her to run wild if we jump a rabbit and she doesn't if she has a collar on. But, I didn't know if they were accepted on shoots. I don't expect they would be on a formal driven shoot. What about the less formal shoots? Anyone have experiences?

 

Thanks,

Rick

[al4x]

I've seen them on formal and informal shoots, if its there just in case I think you'll be fine but I must confess to nearly taking one off a dog and putting it on the owner when he kept using it every time his dog didn't sit at the weekend

So in short used properly I don't think you'll have an issue

[tulkyuk]

I've seen them on formal and informal shoots, if its there just in case I think you'll be fine but I must confess to nearly taking one off a dog and putting it on the owner when he kept using it every time his dog didn't sit at the weekend

So in short used properly I don't think you'll have an issue

I agree with Alex - i know a guy who uses one and sometimes i feel like kicking the **** out of him because the poor dog gets a bolt from it for even the smallest of mistakes, but my father has also used one in the past to correct a very stubbon and head strong Labrador and if used properly , they can be a very good traing tool

[salisburykeeper]

are the collars that are used to stop barking with a sonic noise any good?

[al4x]

they won't have much effect if the dog clears off after a hare though. My main reason for having one would be to stop hare chasing especially if you have roads about.

[casts_by_fly]

thanks guys, that's what I was hoping to hear. She behaves well enough that I rarely need to correct her at all, especially in a hunting situation. But she likes to chase. She has nearly run down 2 hares this fall when she didn't have it on. Once you put the collar on her though she listens like a little angel.

 

FWIW, I'm also not one of those people who nicks her all the time in training either. The collar is on the lower setting and she never gives any reaction to being corrected aside from doing the command. If a dog is flinching from being nicked, the collar is probably on too high a setting. I don't play that way.

 

Thanks,

Rick

[Cranfield]

are the collars that are used to stop barking with a sonic noise any good?

 

The ones that emit a citrus like smell are.

 

This is what solved the problem http://www.twenga.co.uk/offer/95466709.html mentioned in this thread http://forums.pigeonwatch.co.uk/forums/ind...barking+control .

 

With regard to e-collars on dogs on Shoots, most people think they are GPS locators.

[FBF]

i would never let my dog wear a collar while working. hear too many horror storys.

[Browning]

My GSP dog wears one all the time on beating days, I very rarely have to use it now, but the crafty ****** knows

when he's not wearing it......

 

It makes the difference between me being able to take him in the beating line and not being able to take him

in the beating line, so both of us benefit from the collar......Him because I can take him out doing what he loves to do, and me because I can take

him out and watch him doing what he loves to do.

Edited January 8, 2008 by Browning

[lurcherboy]

Make a dummy collar and the dog will never know mate.

 

 

 

 

LB

[Browning]

Make a dummy collar and the dog will never know mate.

 

 

LB

 

I was given an old broken collar last week, he'll be wearing it this saturday.

 

I'm hoping the action of removing his normal collar and putting on another collar

will be enough........

[al4x]

using a dummy collar is fine until you find you need to use it. Obviously you don't aim to use the real one but were the dog to get on a hare near a road you'd kick yourself for using a dummy.

 

On another note Browning I take it it works well with your pointers? I'm just thinking about trying one on mine as a training aid thats non confrontational as a way of checking her if needed when distracted as she is fine till there is something better to be doing!

[webber]

Lancslads dog is still young, and learning. On our shoot we pull his leg about his dog being radio controlled, and will the batteries last, and does he charge the dog up at night?

 

webber

[tulkyuk]

I agree with Alex, the dogs are normally fine with a dummy collar on (PAC provide one for this very reason - PAC ar expensive but probably the best on the market). But there is always the day whenyou will need to check the dog and guarenteed that will be the day that you have put the dummy collar on.