How to Buy & Fit Dog Collars

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Hi, I'm Jim Leske, animal trainer and behaviorist for Expert Village. We're here today with my good friend, Bear to talk about collars, specifically proper fitting collars. Bear has on here what is called a buckle collar, or a snap-away, break-away collar. The proper fit for this is just where you can get somewhere in the neighborhood of approximately three fingers under there snuggly. That's the proper fit we're going through. The beauty of the break-away collar is that if they've ever got tangled on a fence or something like that, he could in theory break this collar away, pull out of it, and not strangle himself. The next type of collar we're going to talk about is the old choke collar. It's called a choke collar because many people will use it incorrectly, and when placed on a dog incorrectly, it does just that. It chokes. This here - Bear, come here. When used correctly, the correct way to use a training collar is as a training collar, and what you want to do is that the pole end goes over the top of the neck, just like this. So, Bear, come here. Very good boy! Now, what happens now is that by the pole end coming over the neck, what it does is distribute more evenly the pressure around the entire neck, instead of the other way around, where most of the pressure is underneath. This way is much more humane and the clicking noise is what's doing the trick. Now, the way we got him to do that is very simple. When we put the collar on, we give him a treat. When we take it off, we give him a treat. On, treat and off. All good. Another collar that some people will use, this is called a pinch collar. A lot of people are not real crazy about these for the simple reason they think it's going to hurt the dog. Remember, with large dogs, these can be very very helpful for dogs that pull, excessive pullers and things like that, and it doesn't take very much pressure at all. And alls it does is just do a little bit on this muscle right here and it just sends a very clear message. Again, it's very great for large dogs that really really pull hard on the leash. If you work with a dog, rather than let the collar do all the work, it's very short term and you can eventually not need to have a need for this whatsoever. So that's it on collars. Thanks for watching, and I'm Jim with Expert Village.

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