Alright, I'm not a fan of the e-collars with 99.9% of dogs. With all of our other hunting dogs have found lots of love, attention, trust, and consistent discipline (Move to your side of the pillow, darn dog) is more than enough. I have two yellow labs that are great and I swear one of them knows what I'm thinking. However my Dad just inherited a black lab mix (as a pup) and this dog is hard headed.

Its now about 1.5 years and this dog is thickheaded pain. She jumps all over, even after multiple knees to the chest. I admit the biggest problem is that my Dad is getting a little old and too feeble to chase a dog around the yard with a rolled up newspaper. My big lab has worked the black lab mix over a few times, but that dumb dog always bugs him, she's just not very sharp. Now against my best wishes my Dad wants this dog to hunt, even though I have two labs that are quite good and his Golden is OK (its a golden what can I say).

After begging my Dad to get after that dog, and realizing that he can't catch her if she doesn't want to be caught, I borrowed a InnoTek shock collar from one of my hunting buddies. Low and behold the dog quickly figured out that she can't jump on people anymore. However the buddy needed the collar back so I'm on the market for a new collar. I just can't see the need for buying some super expensive collar because I really don't plan on seeing it used on any other dog but this one. Is there a good/reliable collar that can reach 200 yards for under $200?
I know, I know there need to be other training methods as well (your preaching to the choir on that one) but it could save that dogs life in the long run. Translation if that dog jumps on my 7 month old daughter one more time we won't need the collar at all. If the dog lived with me it would be different as I'm still agile enough,and strict/loving enough that I could probably train the dog, but right now thats not going to happen. The dog does have a pretty good nose and she can run for days but it doesn't do any good if she's a mile from the nearest hunter.

Edited by - MATTITO on 02/22/2002 17:42:59