ORIGINAL: firsttimeelkhunter
1.a) prompted me to purchase a new Puppy this summer.
2.a) If I don't nick him coming out of the kennel, he doesn't perform as well as I want. When He knows it's there he does a snap up job. I want to train the puppy (Sunny) similarly. I can't use Ace's collar on Sunny b/c Ace doesn't respond w/o it and knows when I take it off.
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1.b) Am I better off using the collar I have and pruchasing another single collar or am I better off to buy a two dog rig?
2.b) Anyone familiar with the DT systems Collars? Looking at the SPT 7100 and 7000 series collars?
3.b) Better brands, collars for the $$$?
1.a - Good luck with the new pup. What training program are you following?
2.a - Your "old dog" is what is called "collar wise". In order to avoid having your new pup becoming collar wise, you need to do a better job of ecollar conditioning. Most modern dog training books will have a pretty decent chapter on ecollar conditioning, but the very finest is the Mike Lardy ecollar tape. You can get the Lardy tape from his website at
www.totalretriever.com .
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1.b - If you are going to train/hunt the two dogs together (at the same time), you need a new 2-dog model.
2 & 3.b - Most (but not all) folks think either the TriTronics or Dogtra brands are a lot better (particularly the 2-dog models).