QOTW: A comprehensive explanation of how we use the e-collar to help fearful dogs...

Описание: This might be the most confusing, controversial, anger-inducing, up-in-arms-creating, burn your house down, training concept going...trainers using an e-collar to help rehab fearful dogs. I think the main reason for all the angst and upset is a fundamental misunderstanding of how the tool is used with fearful dogs, and how it fundamentally shifts their mental state. What we hear over and over is that you can't train a fearful dog to be less fearful by inducing pain - that you'll just make him worse. This points to the complete lack of understanding how we use the tool in this kind of work, and how the tool itself works. (Folks seem to think we're simply blasting fearful dogs to be less fearful!) Are we using competing discomfort to create new choices and ultimately new feelings? You betcha. But discomfort and pain are very different things. Fear, real fear is a powerful state, and trying to override it and create a fundamentally changed dog through rewards only is losing proposition. Check out this clip for our in-depth explanation on how we use this tool to help nervous and fearful dogs gain confidence, joy, and break out of the prison they've been stuck in.

P.S. For all those who might want more proof of the efficacy of using the e-collar for fearful dogs, (and for all those saying it just ruins them) here's two videos. They're a few weeks apart and show the ongoing transformation of Teddy, a seriously fearful (and aggressive) dog, as he transitions out of his fear and into his more confident, trusting, and fun-loving space.

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