Benefits of Slip Dog Training Collars
Correcting with the aid of a slip style dog training collar
The slip collar is an ideal means of correcting your dog. Wolves correct each other with a short, sharp bite in the neck. If a slip collar is used in the correct way, it has the same effect on a dog and is understood well. A chain put on this way slackens as soon as you stop pulling on it.
If the chain is put on the wrong way round, it often stays tight. This makes the dog uncomfortable and you cannot correct it properly in this manner. Neither can you correct it properly when the leash is kept taut. All you do then is to pull the dog along a little bit, but the effect of a "bite" is lost. You only achieve this when the slip collar stays loosely around the dog’s neck and you then give it a short, sharp, but clearly felt tug.
Various types of slip style dog training collars
There are various types of slip collar. They vary from very thin links to large oval links. The fine, thin links are the most suitable for pups from the age of about three to seven months.
From seven months onward you can give your dog a chain made of large, oval links. The advantage of the large oval links is that can you "lock" these into a piston clip, so that the chain has a double function. You can also use it as an ordinary choker collar. The larger links are less damaging to the neck hair. Quite often, hair gets caught in the small links. That irritates the dog and this can result in a partially bare neck.
A slip training collar, by the way, is only worn during training or walking in the period of upbringing. Indoors it is better not to put a chain on your dog at all. During long walks in the wood too, when your dog can frolic about freely, a chain of this kind can be dangerous because it can easily get caught on something.
It is better not to use a metal slip collar until your dog is three months old; until then a nylon slip collar is more suitable. The chance that you will need to correct your pup before then with a slip dog training collar or slip chain is very small.
