Bill before Parliament to ban the use of e-collars

[Farmin n huntin]

yep. worrying about my dogs electric fence... that's what the guys at parliament are for.
what a joke

[Redsoilreaper]

Its a touchy subject at best. This is the first dog I've trained using an e-collar,( had other dogs just trained without an e-collar) and both my wife and I had to meet with the certified trainer (who sold us the e-collar) and go through a very informative training experience..... which consisted of us holding the collar as the trainer took it through the different levels of stimulation. It has/is a very effective training aid. Once after a training session my wife and I and our beloved Brittany Spaniel stopped in at a "pet expo" at the local arena. It was advertised as "bring your dogs, cats and pets" so we pay our admission ( the ladies remark how cute and well behaved our Britt is) and in we go.......first vendor no prob, 2nd, 3rd, 4th vendor, watched some agility races no problem....turn to go to the next vendor who was very friendly selling dog treats......suddenly asks what kind of collar is that? an e-collar? Yes, I say, and explained that we had just come from training....thank her for the treat she gave our Britt and turn to the next vendor......then BAM two expo/humane society volunteers stop us ask if that's an e-collar and DEMAND that we either remove it or leave......the attitude on these two was just wow! I chuckled and said who are you again? Humane society volunteers answered one, again demanding that I remove it or leave.....so i said its a free country went to the next vendor was followed/approached again so after laughing at them again we left with out taking the collar off. I just didn't want to listen to those two little wanna be's anymore.

[yellow dog]

Too bad you didn't have your certified trainers business card so they could call him/her and be educated.

[Cass]

There are tons of resources online and in videos/books on proper collar conditioning. Lardy and Graham both have excellent material on the subject

[trkyhntr21]

Maybe we could get the OFAH to lobby on behalf of hunting dog owners against this proposed law.

[terrym]

Is the CKC doing anything about this I wonder?

[BDH]

Is the CKC doing anything about this I wonder?

Yes , the CKC are likely supporting the bill..

[last5oh_302]

Yes , the CKC are likely supporting the bill..

I bet you're probably correct. It seems many CKC events do not permit the use of e-collars, or at least the few events I looked at didn't.

[krakadawn]

Yes , the CKC are likely supporting the bill..

I am on the Retriever Council for CKC. I can guarantee we will be asked for input. There is no question that we would not support this private members bill.

[krakadawn]

I bet you're probably correct. It seems many CKC events do not permit the use of e-collars, or at least the few events I looked at didn't.

Not allowing the use of e collars for individual events is very different from not supporting their use as a training tool.