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Training Your Dog to the Warning Sound
You will require two consecutive days for training. The aim of training is to achieve a
reliable back-away response when your dog hears the warning sound. Training is performed
before your dog ever feels a correction. Your dog must already be trained to walk on a
leash, be at least 6-months old, and not be injured or sick.
Important: Training is vital for reliable containment. Do not skip this training!
Training Method:
1/ Install Training Flags at 1~2m
spacing over any
visually open
areas of the boundary (eg. Open
lawn areas, un-fenced sections,
around protected garden beds, etc).
Order more flags if necessary.
2/ Set an appropriate Activation
Distance on the collar (see page 16).
3/ Tr
im your dog’s fur to ensure
reliable skin contact to the
Correction Probes. This will guarantee your dog feels the correction when it is switched on.
Cut a section of fur, no bigger than the size of the collar, where it naturally sits under the
neck. Remove the bulk of fur using scissors or clippers on a coarse setting. Do not shave
completely to the bare skin as this might cause a rubbing rash.
NOTE: Do not skip the fur cutting prior to training or it may
take a lot longer to get your dog reliably trained. After your
dog is trained, the fur will grow back, but if you find the
Status Light flashing BLUE every 2 seconds (see page 17),
then you must regularly trim the fur behind the collar.
Important: Don
’
t skip this step even on short fur dogs.
4/ Set the Correction setting to
TRAIN
. This switches
correction OFF. Your dog will wear the collar
continuously
for at least 8 hours on this first day.
5/ On day one, every hour for 6~8 hours spend about 5~10
minutes doing the following:
a/ Put the Radio Collar on your dog (if not already on).
b/ Attach a walking lead to your dog's usual collar. (Do not attach the lead to the
Radio Collar!)