LABwork Interprises

Outdoor training with Belgian Malinois Autumn at Arkansas Tech University.

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In most recent news, PETCO announced it was saying “No to shock collars.” We couldn’t be happier with their announcement for two reasons:

1. We don’t use shock collars we use E-COLLARS, there’s a difference; and
2. PETCO provides cookie cutter type training and expects every dog to learn the same thing and in the same way. EVERY DOG IS DIFFERENT AND NOT EVERY DOG OR OWNER NEEDS AN E-COLLAR.

PETCO has not equipped or educated themselves enough to understand the nuances of dog training and the various communication tools to have reliable behavior.

And honestly they shouldn’t be expected to as they’re pet store and sell to satisfy our human emotions not our dogs behavior.

Having PETCO educate their customers on an E-Collar is out of their wheelhouse so therefore they shouldn’t sell it in the first place, problem solved eh.

However, the basis for their argument is that they’re only going to support positive reinforcement, great! This quadrant means it will only encourage a behavior, never to stop one. But I wonder if they know we can use the same quadrant and condition an E-Collar as a positive reinforcer.

When our client comes to us with specific goals in mind we talk about the tools we can use to achieve them. We are a suggestion based company as we would never vilify a tool like PETCO did — but rather we ask our clients to personally feel the stimulations that an E-Collar gives and properly educates them on how to use it, but only if it’s suitable for their dog.

When conditioned PROPERLY an E-Collar is the most reliable tool we have to communicate with a dog, PERIOD!

Behaved Fantastic on their First Boat Ride ✅