[nagdu] ~Moving away from correction collar

[Nicole Torcolini]

Also, make sure that, when pulled all the way open, the collar does not fall
off if your dog puts her head down. When I first received Lexia, at which
time she was 21 months old, when there was no leash attached to the collar
and it was slid all the way open, she could quite easily dump it off.
Luckily, she grew into it quickly.

Nicole

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Larry D Keeler
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Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 6:49 PM
To: Daryl Marie; NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog
Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] ~Moving away from correction collar

The probblem with that is if she needs to be corrected you can't do it
easiloy. I don't like the chains that schools give you so I baught the
Softlin collar. Looks like a regular collar but has the rings like the
chain. I know that my dog gets long hair and can get it caught in the chain
links.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daryl Marie via nagdu" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
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Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 9:17 PM
Subject: [nagdu] ~Moving away from correction collar


> Hi!
>
> Not sure what it is, or if this is coincidence, but the past couple of 
> days I have moved Jenny's leash from the correction collar to the dead 
> ring.  As a result, this has given me considerably more feedback from 
> Jenny, better walks, and decreased distraction time.  Even going out 
> to the back yard, she did considerably better with the leash clipped 
> to the dead ring rather than the correction collar.
>
> Perhaps this is because she doesn't like the corrections, or the 
> corrections are just not effective? Any idea why, for those of you who 
> know more about positive-reinforcement?
>
>
> It is by no means perfect - she scrounged her way to a doggie buffet 
> of a slice of pizza - but I am seriously contemplating using the dead 
> ring or a regular collar more often.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Daryl and Jenny
>
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