I just won a Tritronics e-collar with 1 mile range off of eBay. It hasn't gotten here yet. I want to use it to keep Pearl from poking her nose in my beehives. It would be much more humane than her getting covered in angry bees. One of my dogs hiked his leg on a hive entrance and was only stung once and he was sick for a whole day. He remembered that to the day he died, years later. Every time a bee got in the house I would know because poor old Roosterdog would be slinking around and hiding and acting spooked! Pearl is so little I don't know what a sting would do to her and I have already caught her sticking her nose in a hive, probably after a mouse which sometimes winter in hives.
Another thing I want to teach her is an aversion to the road that we live on, a busy 4 lane divided road speed limit 45 but everyone goes 60. Some people across the street have dogs with an electronic fence. Pearl sees them and wants to just dash over there. I don't even like walking her along the road even though there is a sidewalk.
Another use for the collar would be to teach her to avoid snakes. With all the rain 2009 was a bad year for snakes, one man even died from a rattlesnake bite here in Georgia. And so far 2010 doesn't look like it is going to be much better!
And of course, work on her recall when she has jumped a deer or something super tempting. She has tried blowing me off but following somebody here's advice I walked her down and after doing that a couple of times she is much better. Of course that was just in the back yard with no deer around.
Will she figure out that when she is not wearing the collar she can do what she wants?
Kathy
A tired dog is a GOOD dog.