The best way to train a dog is to become the pack leader and you cannot become the pack leader using treats, harnesses, gentle leaders, or anything similar. Sure, you can coax a dog into sitting or downing with a treat. Maybe your dog will walk better for you on a gentle leader. However, when taking those things away, will your dog do the same thing? Or will you always have to have treats in your pocket or a noose around the dog’s nose to get him/her to behave or listen?
Training collars are used because, in a dog’s world, knowledge of dominance is done around the neck. When a puppy in a litter keeps relentlessly squeezing his way in for milk when the mother has had enough, the mother will correct the puppy by grabbing the puppy with her mouth around the neck to say "No!". When one dog tries to show dominance over another, that dog will usually pin a dog down using its mouth, around the neck. Afterward, usually one dog leaves being dominant and the other dog leaves submitting. When that does not happen, there is a fight. You don’t have one dog feeding another dog a treat to establish dominance or go for the other dog’s nose to show who is the boss. We believe in being the pack leader in your household and the best way to do that is with training collars.
There are several types of training collars: martingale collars, chain or slip collars, prong collars, and E-collars or electronic collars. Different collars are used for different types of dogs and their different personalities. Every dog is different.
