E-Collar help-(Garmin Delta XC)

[andrew_rigsby]

I have a GSP who is 9 months old. I purchased an E-collar and started working with him using it at about 6 months. I introduced the collar and everything and started using it. It has 18 levels and we started training on a 3-4. As we kept using it he started ignoring it, even if the level of stimulation is increased he doesn't care and ignores the shock or vibrate. After this started to be a trend I halted using the collar all together. We haven't used in three months and I am about to start back. My question is this.

How should I reintroduce it? What can I do to make this ecollar effective for training?

Any other suggestions are welcome as well and thank you in advanced.




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[oregon woodsmoke]

If the dog is ignoring the collar, you probably have the collar too loose. The electrodes must both have contact with the skin.

[Sharon]

Welcome to the forum.

Re introduce with conditioning from a known command as you did initially. Are you using the long points and not the short points?

[kninebirddog]

http://www.kninebirddog.com/understandi ... ollar.html

Fitting the e collar on is very important as if it is to loose it wont make proper contact and will either not give any stimulation or it might make a short contact which will act more like a sharp nick versus a stimualtion for the dog to respond to.
Then what are you doing to set the dog up for success with the e collar as the e collar is to continue for commands known
Above is an article i did to help under stand the e collar