Bevo is a wonderful dog! He plays and is really hyper in the backyard, but is calm when he comes in the house! His only real problem is that he loves to chase birds. You might not see a problem ... but he gets in this zone and ignores us completely! It is very annoying! When we go on walks, most of the time Bevo has to be on the leash!
We were finally ready to put an end to this!
There was only one way we could think of ...
A Shock Collar!
Our neighbor offered to let us use his a couple months ago, and we finally decided it was time!
On Sunday, We took him out ... with an extra collar around his neck! He walked him with a leash at first. So when he did something wrong, we could give him a little shock ... to get him used to it! Then we let him go ...
He caught sight of a bird and took off! Soon he was close to the field, where we did not want him to go ... we called him to us, and he ignored us! It took a very high shock to get his attention! He jumped to a stop ... we called him back to us again, and he came a running!
I must say he is a very smart dog and caught on quick! Of course, we had to give him a couple more reminders ... but all in all, he did very good!
Master and Dog
We were finally ready to put an end to this!
There was only one way we could think of ...
A Shock Collar!
Our neighbor offered to let us use his a couple months ago, and we finally decided it was time!
On Sunday, We took him out ... with an extra collar around his neck! He walked him with a leash at first. So when he did something wrong, we could give him a little shock ... to get him used to it! Then we let him go ...
He caught sight of a bird and took off! Soon he was close to the field, where we did not want him to go ... we called him to us, and he ignored us! It took a very high shock to get his attention! He jumped to a stop ... we called him back to us again, and he came a running!
I must say he is a very smart dog and caught on quick! Of course, we had to give him a couple more reminders ... but all in all, he did very good!
Master and Dog
He obviously smelt something in the pool storage room!
On Sunday Night, we rewarded him with a treat for putting up with it all!!
Monday went even better! And then Tuesday evening, we didn't shock him once! I am so proud of him! We didn't make it out this evening ... but for sure tomorrow!
Next week, we will walk with out the collar and see how it goes!
4 comments:
OK, Susan, you're going to have to let me know how you got your picture and the words you wanted into your header. I didn't spend a whole lot of time on it yesterday, but I couldn't figure it out. Help! It looks so incomplete without a certain little smiling face at the top of my blog!
Duncan has a shock collar, the only problem with it is that he obeys when it is on and not when he is not wearing it. Dogs are smarter than us humans like that. He is such a small dog, that it is bulky around his little neck.
You make me laugh!!
Glad the shock collar worked!!
Also, on the post about the missing little dog from the other night. I didn't want to tell you this, but I had to laugh. NOT because you lost your dog, but because of how you wrote about it!!
Love ya!!
we use a shock collar with Duke for the very same reason. and of course he HAS to have it when it is dove season!!! they are wonderful....glad it worked out so well!!
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