- Hey everybody, how are you?
Jeff Gellman of Solid K9 Training
with my What Would Jeff Do? Dog Training Tip of the Day,
Tip number 127.
I get a lot of testimonials on a daily basis.
Just people emailing me letters.
People that I've never met before,
people in other countries around the world,
people who's first language is not even English
and they take my videos and they decipher them
and they make dramatic results.
But this is not as much about me.
Believe it or not, most of my content,
I don't want it to be on me.
It's about all of you, helping all of you.
I get my ego strokes through helping as many people
as possible.
But there's a lot of folks out there
that are saying how bad prong collars are,
how bad shock collars are.
I'm very aware of the conversation
but I want folks to know over and over and over again
you are being lied to.
You are being lied to!
There is absolutely nothing wrong with prong collars
or remote collars,
and I don't even have to say if used properly.
Bottom line, there's nothing wrong with them.
Even if you used them wrong to semi-wrong,
you're probably gonna be better off than you are today.
But let me just read you a letter
that I just got in an email.
Hi Jeff, I only recently discovered your YouTube videos
but better late than never.
Agreed!
I have three dogs, a nine year old Lab, which is 66 pounds,
a five year old Cockipoo at 40 pounds
and a four and a half year old mixed breed cherry healer,
Sadie, this is what the message is about, who's 40 pounds.
Sadie is 40 pounds.
Sadie is a lovely little dog
but extremely nervous and reactive.
I think that I have a bin full of every collar, leash,
and harness system known
in my attempts to be able to walk Sadie
and keep her from lunging at other dogs and people,
men in particular.
When she would get excited the other two were affected.
So she was trying to walk all three together
as most people do that have multiple dogs.
I have been pulled over more than once
and dragged across the road in a prone position across snow.
Very dangerous for all concerned.
Sadie has successfully bitten a human while on a walk
and had some near misses.
At one point I muzzled her.
I was always familiar with prong collars
but had some misinformation on its uses and effectiveness,
which so many people have as well.
Why, there's so many lies out there about these tools.
And they are blatant outright lies and misinformation
that a certain segment of the population
is putting out there
knowing there's actually nothing wrong with them at all.
I spent the better part of an afternoon
about a month and a half ago
watching your videos on prong collars
and ordered a Herm Sprenger for Sadie.
I followed the training steps
and on my first walk with Sadie it was like magic.
She very quickly responded to subtle corrections
and we are gradually working up
to being able to pass other dogs
on the same side of the street.
Occasionally she's still reactive,
which is fine, we're all on a journey,
but it's short-lived and I'm learning her cues
to when she's becoming hyper-focused
and correcting that before she's too heightened.
You're following my videos, good for you.
I bought prong collars for the other two as well
and we typically walk loose leash together now.
I am relaxed so they tend to be relaxed as well.
Yes, the human is relaxed.
It's so important that we also focus on the enjoyment
of the walk for the human.
I feel badly that I waited so long
to help Sadie with a prong collar,
as I imagine that her heightened state and anxiety
was not pleasant for her.
No it wasn't, but don't beat yourself up.
Her other issue is excessive reactive barking.
The Garmin Bark Limiter arrived today, we suggest those,
and we will give it a try.
This is another training tool
that I have been hesitant to use
but what I want for Sadie
is not be in anxious state unnecessarily.
I got that today.
So I emailed her back.
Hey, cool, cool testimonial.
I always ask permission, is it okay if I used it.
She said yes, but then she emails me right back
saying Sadie has had the Bark Limiter on
for about three hours.
First time using it, three hours.
It's the first time that we have been able to sit outside
and enjoy a Sunday afternoon without coming in
due to her barking.
The neighbor's dog even came over to the fence
and she abandoned that very quickly.
She is now perched at the window inside
and quietly enjoying the outdoors.
I think that is what is what is most significant for me
is her altered states from intense and anxious to calm.
How wonderful for her.
Thank you again, and that's Deb up in London, Ontario.
Over and over and over again I get these emails
from people who have been busting their butts
with no results.
She's been trying for over a year with this dog
and in just a couple of weeks
she can walk all three of her dogs on a leash being calm,
less anxious, the owner is enjoying it.
She wasn't able to be outside with her dogs
because her dogs would be out of control barking.
She'd have to bring them in.
The first time she used a bark collar
she's able to be outside with her dogs enjoying it.
Over and over and over we get these stories.
If you're struggling with you dog,
if you think you have tried everything,
get yourself a Herm Sprenger collar,
get yourself a bark collar for excessive barking,
and get past your struggles.
And also if you have to have a bark collar on
with your dog every time it's outside, who cares?
Don't let tell ya somebody
that's oh you're just managing your dog.
I don't care, I'm enjoying my Sunday afternoon,
so is my dog.
If you have to wear a prong collar every single walk,
don't let somebody say oh, you're just managing your dog.
So what, you are enjoying your walk
and so is the dog by the way.
Jeff Gellman, Solid K9 Training,
I am truly madly in love with you.
I'll talk to you tomorrow.
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