Your Dog Won't Mind Now What?
Level 4
Editor’s
Note: Charlie Jurney of Terrell, North Carolina, the
author of “Finished Dog,” trains all breeds
of dogs but focuses primarily on Labrador and golden
retrievers and Boykin spaniels. His dogs compete in
the Hunting Retriever Club Division of the United Kennel
Club and in the American Kennel Club Hunt Test Program
and the North American Hunting Retriever Association
Field Test Program. He’s titled hundreds of grand
master hunters, grand hunting retriever champions, master
hunters
and hunter retrieving championships and has won 10 Boykin
Spaniel National Championships, all performance-based
retrieving titles.
“Now that you have the dog working without a
leash, I strongly suggest using a SportDOG training
collar like the SD 400S,” Jurney says. “This
training collar is effective out to 400 yards, and it’s
waterproof and carries a lifetime warranty. I suggest
you use an electric training collar since it gives you
an infinite distance within which you instantly can
correct the dog
if it fails to obey a command. The quicker you correct
the dog after it fails to obey a command, the faster
the dog will obey the command. Your training collar
is an insurance policy for your dog because, if it fails
to obey your command, you can apply pressure to the
bottom of its neck just like you have with the nylon
collar. Then the dog knows what it needs to do to obey
your command.”
Use low-level stimulation on the training collar until
you discover how much pressure you need to make the
dog mind. The
training collar gets the dog’s attention off what
it wants to do to focus its attention on what you as
the Alpha want the dog to do. With a training collar,
you can keep the dog from chasing the cat, running into
the road or getting into mischief. Never forget to only
use the minimum amount of pressure on the training collar
to make the dog mind.
To learn more, go to www.finisheddog.com
or email finisheddog@yahoo.com.
Or, you can call or write Charlie Jurney at Beaverdam
Kennels at (828) 478-3101 or (828) 478-3943; 8200 Hwy.
150 Terrell, NC 28682. For more information on SportDOG
Brand collars, call (865) 218-4088 or 1 (800) 732-0144
or visit www.sportdogbrand.com.
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