I am enjoying your videos and learning a lot. I noticed you always work with the prong, I admire very much balabanov. Does his system normally work with a prong? My re homed SG is completly insensitive with sleep collar. I am Considering a herm sprenger prong. He is as heavy as me, around 50 kg. Very tall big guy. Corrections on a sleep collar, with a pulling big one get my arms sore in every walk. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Ivan spends time in negative reinforcement quadrant and he will use the tool that works for that dog. Often times it will be a prong collar. It is the most efficient and least amount of physical pressure (the way we do it) to use negative reinforcement to teach dogs commands/cues/etc. A Martingale collar isn’t as sensitive of a tool, nor is a front-pull harness (not to mention it is not very directional), and a flat collar just is not safe on the dogs neck because it can create an strong oppositional pull on the neck/trachea and dogs usually could care less and pull extremely hard- as you see or have experienced, I’m certain. I hope this helps! Also, please please note I don’t stay on a prong collar forever. I use it as negative reinforcement and operant conditioning to encourage or teach behaviors (via classical conditioning) and get off of a prong collar, usually within a week to three. It works well because it is a very effective directional pressure.
I am enjoying your videos and learning a lot. I noticed you always work with the prong, I admire very much balabanov. Does his system normally work with a prong? My re homed SG is completly insensitive with sleep collar. I am Considering a herm sprenger prong. He is as heavy as me, around 50 kg. Very tall big guy. Corrections on a sleep collar, with a pulling big one get my arms sore in every walk. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Ivan spends time in negative reinforcement quadrant and he will use the tool that works for that dog. Often times it will be a prong collar. It is the most efficient and least amount of physical pressure (the way we do it) to use negative reinforcement to teach dogs commands/cues/etc. A Martingale collar isn’t as sensitive of a tool, nor is a front-pull harness (not to mention it is not very directional), and a flat collar just is not safe on the dogs neck because it can create an strong oppositional pull on the neck/trachea and dogs usually could care less and pull extremely hard- as you see or have experienced, I’m certain. I hope this helps! Also, please please note I don’t stay on a prong collar forever. I use it as negative reinforcement and operant conditioning to encourage or teach behaviors (via classical conditioning) and get off of a prong collar, usually within a week to three. It works well because it is a very effective directional pressure.