I did Mention one of my dogs is really stupid right?

[DREDIOCK]

I believe I pointed that out in another thread.

Chocolate Lab named "Zoey"
I call her "Dingbat"

Well Dingbat can sometimes be problematic.
In part I think she thinks she is part Kangaroo
Tremendous leaper.
Clears our fence no problem.
Well she also likes to run.
And like as is said about Beagles.
"Once the nose goes down, the brain shuts off"
Once shes outside the yard
Wont listen worth a damn no matter what I've tried.

so I figure Im gonna get one of those fancy electronic training collars.

Basically its a mini Tazer attached to a collar and you can operate it by remote control.
So a trip to PetSmart and $100 later I get it home. Carefully follow the instructions to activate it. and place it on the dog.
I give the button on the remote a VERY quick tap just to see if it has an effect.
she pauses kinda startled and looks around to see what did that.

I chuckle and figure ok it works.
Lets take her out in the back yard and see if we cant start training.

Within 1 minute she springs over the fence into the neighbors yard.
So I call her and as usual she doesnt come.
I call her again and she still doesnt come.
Soo I think to myself. Ok now Im gonna zap her.
So I press down the button on the remote the littel light on the collar lights up indicating its working and she just continues to trot along.
I call her again and still nothing.

So I say to myself. "Heh' Now Im REALLY gonna zap this Biotch"
IO kick up the boost on the remote all the way and press and hold the button on the remote expecting the to about jump out of her skin.
so what happens?

Nothing
She friggen ignored it and just kept trotting around the yard.
Finally. eventually she comes close enough for me to grab and I get her back into our yard.
I figure it must not be working right so I press it again. you can literally HEAR it going "ZZZZZT"
And there she is wagging her tail and looking at me as if she were saying
"Duhhhhhhh, what?"

Now I do know better then to try it on myself.
As I met someone who had one and used it to great success with his Boxer.
He tried it on himself  just to see what it did to the dog.
The 250 pound 6'6" man claimed it hurt bad enough to make him near cry.


Flipping dog is too stupid to realise she's in pain.

Maybe Ill go back and get a more powerful one.
Like one designed for a Great Dane or an elephant or something.

My luck she'll like it

[Meatwad]

You got her a remote controlled $100 neck scratcher

[lasersailor184]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6f-UXOw45s

[68ZooM]

LOL i had a Pittbull that was about as smart as a Box of Rocks, He would chew the garden hoses to peices, Then he ate the trailer plug off my Boat including the Trailer Lights, He finally learned his lesson when he chewed my Extension Cord in Half.  RIP ya Dumb $hot

[SteveBailey]

Is it piossible that the current was traveling electrode to electrode without going through the dog?

I have a beagle... the saying is correct.

[Dichotomy]

we are currently babysitting a pit bull for my bro in law over there.. following is a memo the she devil wrote to said pit bull

Memo to the dog:

You are not a bird dog, hunting dog, hound dog, or coon dog. Please stop yanking my shoulder out of socket when you see fowl or rodent in our immediate vicinity. It hurts, and it negatively affects my swimming and my climbing. Additionally, those grackles in the trees above us? They know you can't get to them, so they are teasing and taunting you hoping to make you look like a jackprettythang, which you do, jumping in the air with a 120 lb woman hanging off the end of your leash while you popcorn up, flip over, and (maybe) land again. Speaking of landing, you might want to work on that. You've got jumping down PERFECTLY, but landing? Zoinks.

Also, I would like you to note that I now have several claw marks on my arm, as well as what appears to be a hematoma in my leg. While I'm sure this is just your natural exhuberance coming through, I don't like it.

One more thing, could you please NOT decide I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed to wake up once you're let back in the house? I appreciate your enthusiasm and am glad we're such good friends and all but I don't even let my husband lick my (***edited.. let's just say rear end***), so you doing it kind of makes me want to bolt off the bed and barf profusely while screaming obscenities. Since, at 7:10 a.m. I am usually incapable of such activity all at once (particularly due to my lack of coffee), all I could manage this morning was a disgusted "blearghmphhh" as I rolled away horrified, tucking a pillow behind my backside. While I'm sure many would find this humorous, I do not, therefore I request, most respectfully, that you not lick my (****again edited.. but you guys get the point***). Ever. EVER. Again. Ever.
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ya dog are great aint they?

[wooly15]

I have two beagles and that is a VERY true statement...nose down brain off.  So much so, they wear the underground fence collar and when they get too close "ZAP!".  At first I noticed that sometimes they were unaffected when the collar beeped and zapped and thought "they can't be that dumb", kinda like you with your dog.  Then I realized the collars weren't tight enough.  The probes wouldnt push throught their fat and fur and would just zap away harmlessly.  Try tightening it and maybe that's the case.  Good luck.

[sgt203]

Laser that was funny as He11:rofl

[Xargos]

Originally posted by lasersailor184
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6f-UXOw45s

 

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by SteveBailey
Is it piossible that the current was traveling electrode to electrode without going through the dog?

I have a beagle... the saying is correct.

I guess. Im gonna check it out more tomorrow

I used to have two beagles.


Great vacume cleaners for when the kids, or anyone for that matter drops food on the floor.
I used to swear you could drop a potatoe chip on the floor from two rooms away and they would know it
Great dogs
especialy with kids
But dumb as dirt

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by lasersailor184
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6f-UXOw45s

Heyy!!!
Watching that video just gave me a grand idea.
Just so it wont be wasted money.
I'll use it on my wife.

"What did you say? Your not in the mood tonight? Wrong answer!"

ZZZZAP!

"Now get em off"

[Golfer]

My folks have a Chocolate Lab (Moose...because on a recent trip to Maine my mother was furious she didn't get to see a moose due to fog) and I helped install the electric fence in the yard back home and I can tell you that without a doubt it is an effective tool.  I never tested it fortunately because my dad and his friend were there to do it...twice...for me.

As I understand it he overran the fence (marked with the white flags) one time, pissed off my father and he dragged him back through the fence.  He since doesn't even get close enough to cause the collar to start beeping.  When I go home we'll play "golf" where I'll hit a ball and he'll bring it back to me.  If I hit one close to the boundary of the yard (the flags are now removed) he won't even get close to it.  He'll stand there and look at it, look at me, look at the ball, look at me, look at the ball...sit down.  Look at me, the ball, me, the ball...etc.

He'd been running full speed chasing after our neighbors cat through the yard (the folks have 5 acres and the neighbors on either side for a few houses also have 5 acres) and he'd slam on the brakes just in time to stop.  The funny part is the cat will lay down just out of his reach and start rolling around in the grass taunting him

Are you using the proper length contacts?  Their collar with the fence came with 3 sizes for short, medium and long haired dogs.  The short didn't really work well so we used the medium and they worked fine.