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Originally Posted by debbiej  I guess because I know none of the collars I depend on are allowed in a trial, be it obedience, agility or schutzhund, I am trying to look ahead to how to take steps without them. |
There is no one collar etc that is better or worse with this goal in mind but it is how you use them. People who trial, and want to trial in a slip chain so think they should train in a slip chain have a limited knowledge regards conditioning and the use of any equipment within this process. For me I would very much continue using all the pieces of equipment as needed. I am happy to use many many different pieces of equipment on the same dog to get responces as needed with regards command, loading etc. For example pinch collars more me are almost only used in the laoding of a dog in protection work and I would rather use an e-collar for OB and control work for many reasons including the how early in the learning process I can use such equipment. So it really is horses for courses and use what you feel most comfortable with, what the other handlers can help you with etc the most.
The comment that made the most sense, is "don't you want him to know the command and correction is coming directly from you?" Um in a word, more common than not "NO". There are times when you want the dog to know that the stimulation came from you but there are vaslty more times etc in high level routine execises that you do not. The clearer that the association can me made to the command, breaking of command etc the better and if the dog sees that we have created the stimulus then the association includes us rather than the comand, breaking the command/position only.
Hope that this helps,
Mick.