Jul 23, 2020
new study on ecollars for training recall, including (perhaps especially) from livestock! and it finds that ecollars, while doing the job, don’t do it any better or faster than either a) the exact same trainers training without ecollars (but with more physical contact) or b) reward based training.
which, as the UK-based authors point out, rather begs the question of why use them at all, if they’re not better than the alternatives and, improperly used, they carry the risk of negatively impacting the dog’s welfare