Electronic Dog collars

[hawk1]

I'm looking to buy an electronic dog collar. Does anyone have any recommendations? In just doing a general search, they all seem to be fairly similar. Is there anything I should look for, or avoid??? Also, if anyone has one just sitting around, let me know. I'd rather give $ to one of you guys than a big business.

[earplug]

Sportdog. We have the field trainer 425. They are a good company to deal with.

[SideShow Bob]

Try it on the wife first, just to make sure that you are not treating your dog inhumanly.......

[Great-Kazoo]

Try it on the wife first, just to make sure that you are not treating your dog inhumanly.......

How do you know it isn't for said application?












Sportdog has the better quality collars AND very good CS.

[CHA-LEE]

What are you trying to stop/do with the electronic dog collar? Invisible Fence? Barking? General Entertainment?

[CHA-LEE]

One of my dog's likes to bark and we had to go through a few different versions of collars before we found one that was balanced to his unique level of stubbornness. If you are going for the electric shock type, you want one that has progressive levels of audible and shocking warnings with a limit/cutoff. We settled on the "High Tech Bark Terminator 3" which has several levels of beeping before it starts to actually shock him. It also has a limit/cutoff after it is shocking for a while. The limit/cutoff is important because they can get into a Bark/Shock/Yelp/Shock/Yelp/Shock loop if they push their luck with it.

For our stubborn dog he would power through the weaker shocking collars and simply keep barking even though he was getting lit up. We had to switch to a "Big Dog" version to get the proper shocking level to motivate him to stop barking and not power through it. It only took him a couple of times in getting really lit up before he realized that he couldn't simply power through it any more and NOT BARKING was the solution. Today he still barks, but its usually only a single bark and the collar beeps and he shuts down the barking. Its not too often that he actually gets shocked any more. He knows that there are only a couple of warning beeps before means real business so he keeps it within the "beeping" warning level.

[Ramsker]

+1 on SportDog.

[Zach O]

Sport Dog worked on my Shiba. He was the worst at running away. If his harness is on, he thinks its the collar. I can take him outside now without a leash.


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[mackbamf]

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[sniper7]

DT systems is what we have. Mine is 5+ years old and my dads is 4. My buddy swears by them and has had them for ID say 10 years and they work great. My dad puts his on his dog every day and it still works great. Great range, light transmitter. Good in the field and I'd say water resistant or water proof on the transmitter and waterproof on the collar/receiver.

[laportecharlie]

I've had the TriTronics Pro 500 with transmitter and two collars for about fourteen years. Had to replace all the batteries once in that time and they are about ready to be replaced again. TriTronics was the gold standard back when I bought the system and have served well with no issues at all. I have seen the two collar sets on E-Bay recently from around $125.00 to $200.00. That is a heck of a price considering I paid over $600.00 for mine. Great equipment.

[hawk1]

Yes... all of the above!

[hawk1]

The limit/cutoff is important because they can get into a Bark/Shock/Yelp/Shock/Yelp/Shock loop if they push their luck with it.

I want something that will work when we aren't home and he's outside. I have a shitty neighbor that kicked in 7 fence slats a week ago when we weren't home. I don't want my dog to be a pain in the ass for neighbors, but at the same time, he's a freaking dog. He (my dog) quits barking when I call him, but sometimes, I can't drop what I'm doing to get him. I think this is what I'd looking for; something that is self driven.