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Yes you leave the collar on the dog. Martingales are an approved collar for the obedience ring.

Thats how I use it too TerraNik. I can't imagine putting it on so tightly that it has to stay at the top of the neck. Its a limited slip so not really designed to be a correction collar.

Brookie's birthday today! He got a nice big bone for dinner!

Poor baby!!!!! my guys will take a couple off your hands Thanks Amy ST wants to watch some novice jumping Also does anyone's dog eat cow hooves? I brought a bag of them for my dogs and Lincoln is terrified of them He peed himself when I got one out the bag and spent the rest of the afternoon slinking around with his tail between his legs until I put them in the shed

I prefer shaping but you could initially lure him on and click when both feet are on. Sometimes just moving your own position relative to him can cause him to put both paws on.

Depends entirely on you and the dog! They are often recommended for Staffy's as they fit over the boofy heads ( :p ) but if you never let the dog perfect the backwards head flip then you shouldn't have a problem.

Congratulations Xena with all your successes with your kids....well deserved :p

The only reason I use mine is because its pretty and it matches my lead!!!! :p I never use it as a training collar just as I never use the lead other than an attachment to me. They are useful for dogs that flip out of a normal fixed collar. I would never leave a martingale collar on....either no collar or a fixed collar.

No horse for my guys!!!! I never buy 'steak' because it could contain anything! Silly I know but I just draw the line at that. Sounds like I need to take a trip to this A&D petfoods They are great they have chicken, beef, lamb, roo and horse mince and occasionally I can get goat from them too. Then they do the chicken, beef, lamb or roo cooked liver meatballs, no preservatives they just have liver and veggies - perfect for training. They also do assorted bones and dried treat and their prices are very very good

You win!!!! :D

Twice a week...further than Midland....and then usually trialling on the weekends! I need to take out shares in BP!!!! bahahahahaha run ptolomy run. how far do you have to travel??? it take me 40 odd mins from midland and i do that on a tuesday. would love to come down on a monday but i work :D i also travel about 40 mins when i get up on a sun for obedience

Love the green checkered and sky blue. Think I prefer the black and white bow tie on page 11. I also love the red and pink roses on Whats New. Decisions decisions

Join the lost clicker club!!!! I buy 5 at a time and every so often I find them...Jackpot!!!

Don't use one anymore!!! Much better!

OMG! She's enormous!!! I reckon 9 (or 4 really big pupsters!!!) :D

I once got another finger injury with a knotted lead...not mine....a students dog that decided to take off and I grabbed the lead but I didn't know it was knotted. Arthritis in that finger now :D Sorry but I hate knotted leads!!!!

Oh Yeah!!! Somebody once told me to use venetian cord for my very fast Kelpie.....I carried the scars for quite a while! Never going to do that again!!!!

That's a very familiar site!!!! Before you know it Rubystar, you will have this, and then when sprung given the tummy up cutey look. ;)

Have you contacted Dogs Victoria? Surely that would affect all affiliate clubs and trials so they would need to take a proactive position on this.

Well done Jess Brookie also missed a position in Open today which gave him a second place. They can all have brain fart moments but as you say, the most important thing is to keep the great attitude.

Well done Sue & Cindy On to Novice now...hope you're training for Open!!!!

Congratulations Kavik I have all sorts of problems with Gamblers! We are in Masters but I have no idea how we managed to get there!!!

Brookie was a gooood boy today and won UD on 195 at the West Coast Challenge He was second place in Open as well so we are having a lovely sparkling Shiraz to celebrate

Depends on what I'm working on at the time. Usually I work out a plan of what I want to do and when I want to reward and then ask someone to call it for me.

Yes you are right and I am a positive trainer and no I don't use a shock collar. When I found this method I had a naughty, naughty, naughty Kelpie around 8 months of age who had not been taught a proper recall... only a namby pamby club/ trial type one which didn't hold up in real life!!!!! So she had been self rewarding by ignoring me and enjoying games with other dogs and kids while I was yelling and tearing my hair out!!!! I never needed to go to extremes with this because, like most dogs, she was sane but not well trained (my bad!) I think shock collars belong in the professionals hands for very few dogs. My recall mantra is first time, every time!!!!! Bedazzled I was fairly sure that you were a positive trainer so I'm thinking that you never had to get to the e-collar stage - do correct me if I'm wrong. Since you have used this program before do you have any suggestions of what you would do if you did have a dog that got to the e-collar stage without using an e-collar?