A Guide To Dog Collars
by yunus
dog collar
One of most important things you can do for your dog is getting the right dog collar, making a good comfortable hard wearing dog collar is essential, because probably spend most of it’s life with it collar on. Finding the best type of dog collar will depend on your dog and what the main use for the collar will be.
What ‘s a dog collar for, and is it essential?
It is probably the most obvious – controlling your dog, to prevent your dog wandering off or straying into road traffic when out walking, a dog collar can provide you with a certain amount of control, as dog or puppy training.
On choosing the correct size of dog collar is one thing is important. A dog collar that is too small will leave your dog feeling uncomfortable and can cause your dog harm and, having a collar that is too big will enable your dog to easily slip out of it. The material and width of the collar need to match the size of your puppy or dog. The neither will a lightweight nylon collar be any good on a Rotweiller and heavy duty leather collar will not be much good for a Chihuahua .
Make sure that on a large dog, you can slip two fingers between the dogs throat and the collar that is a great rule of thumb. And ensure the collar can rotate easily also. For smaller dogs, make sure rotate of the collar easily.
Ensure the collar can’t pull over the ear of the dogs, many dogs can become little Houdini’s in their own right. The dog collar have many different types; such as designer collars, sporting collars, and personalized collars
We will be covering a few main types. Those are as follows.
It is what your dog would wear for everyday use and can come in a variety of materials. Most common made from Nylon collar. Those come in all sorts of sizes and colors. The main advantage of a nylon collar is it’s price. Those collars are cheapest yet provide a superb durability in that they don’t tend to rot and when wet will dry out quickly.
A best quality leather collar could more easy last the lifetime of your dog. The dog collar that you will be using must be comfortable and secure, although for lapdogs where the collar can be more of a fashion accessory being comfortable is the priority, a strong hardwearing collar for larger dogs is a must.
A dog training collar is used mainly during training. The type of training would dictate with the type of collar, a choke collar or ‘choke chain’ would be best suited for obedience training.
Those collars comprise of a slip loop that tightens around the dogs neck if collar pulls on a leash too much. When the dog stops pulling, the chain loosens off. Lot of people consider the use of a choke collar as unnecessary but used in the right circumstances, this type of collar can be an effective training aid. that is extremely important to only use a choke collar when training and supervised.
You should not let your dog out alone with a choke collar on because If the dog becomes caught on something they can make easy choke themselves.
Electric dog collars or Dog Shock Collar to be used to discourage a certain behaviour in a dog. More often than not those are used to control unnecessary barking. It is consist of a sensor to detect the bark and a pair of electrodes or similar to administer a small harmless shock.
More advanced devices can adjust the level of the shock depending upon how many shocks the dog have been administered before. The main trouble with those design is that the dog is being consistently punished for it’s bad behaviour. That can seem ideal initialy but it is far from that.
The training a dog affects much more than punishing the dog every time it is bad. In point of fact, using positive reinforcement and praise when the dog stops behaving badly can have a much more confident effect. making to the root of the behavioural problem is the better approach.
Simply they may a preventative training method acting be implemented. When see the case of a dog that chews and barks because it misses it’s owner during the day. when dog feeling anxious, they produce barking and chewing. If the dog recieves an electrical dog shock every some minutes, that anxious behaviour will be compounded.
