E-Collar Irritation Issue

[DropinBack]

My dog keeps getting irritated from his E-Collar to the amount that his neck bleeds or pusses creating sores and scabs. I never leave the E-Collar on for more than 8 hours.

The reason it happens is the E-Collar ALWAYS seems to fall to and sit in the exact same spot on the lower right side of this neck. No matter how i adjust the collar, where the module sits, hot tight or loose etc, it ends up being in the exact same spot. It always goes to the lower right side... even if i turn it upside down.

Any thoughts?

Obviously I wait for it to heal before I ever goes back on...

[freezeland]

If your using long prongs try shorter ones

[thelast2]

Couple of questions, because you know where assuming anything gets you. What breed dog is this and what e-collar are you using?

[DropinBack]

Tri-tronics Sport Basic G3. I have tried the short prongs and the long prongs and it is WORSE with the short prongs because i have to put the collar so tight for him to respond to it it makes it worse. The issue is it is going to the exact same spot no matter what... and its the lower right porting, riding up. Thoughts?

It sucks because it is making him collar smart every time I have to leave it off...

[copterdoc]

I don't understand why you have to have the collar on the dog for up to 8 hours a day.

[Dooley]

I'm glad someone picked up on the eight hours.....why would you do that?? You must be obsessed with using the shock collar on your dog.

[Rnd]

copterdoc

Senior MemberJoin DateMar 2006LocationNW ILPosts1,503

I

think you are completely nuts.
If the dog is advanced enough to take hunting, it's advanced enough to regress. Especially in areas that are situational. Like hunting.

So much of hunting, undoes what we work so hard to get in training. Even if the dog is wearing an e-collar.

My dogs are supposed to be trained, when they get to a test too.

But, if I could have a collar on them, you can bet your ass I would have a collar on them!
And if I could run tests with a collar, I'd be able to run a whole lot more consecutive weekends without having to take a break.

Dogs learn things in tests and while hunting that we DON'T want them to learn.
Having an e-collar on the dog, allows us to maintain quite a bit more of the training that we have worked so hard to put in.

It has nothing to do with the dog being trained, or not being trained.
If anything, the higher the dog's advancement level, the more important it is that you have a collar on the dog while hunting.

Copterdoc:: This was your response to my asking of how many hunted while wearing a e-collar.

Maybe he hunts for eight hours??????

[copterdoc]

...Maybe he hunts for eight hours??????

Maybe he does.

[thelast2]

All dogs know when they have the e-collar on or off so that isnt the problem! For a short coat like most labradors have I would recomend the shorter prongs for your tritronics collar, also dont know if you got the video that comes with tritronics collars when they are new, but if you didnt I would contact tritronics and get one might solve some of your problems, or even google should have proper introduction and use of ecollar videos. Most people put the ecollar on direclty before training and remove ecollar directly after, only long periods of time might be while out hunting in which case you need to exercise your own judgement about how often, and for what duration of time your dog needs that ecollar on. 4 months of waterfowl season even at say 4 hrs a day, I would not be comfortable with my dogs wearing an ecollar that much, rather would work on my obedience training especially the recall portion every chance i got. I would not leave the collar on for long periods of time after the intial collar conditioning to get the dog used to wearing it. Lastly like you already stated let the dog heal up before using the ecollar anymore.

[SjSmith]

Mine get the sores too from wearing it on a long hunt especially when wet. I was informed that some dogs have an allergic reaction to the nickle in the stainless steel prongs. There are different contacts that can be purchased or someone suggested using a men's dress sock as a receiver sleeve, if you will. The stim works through the sock but protects the dog skin? I didn't try that, I just try to have it on at a minimum and keep moving it around to different spots on the neck while we're hunting and that as worked for us. Good luck.