jdgher
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Re: garmin alpha
quote: Originally posted by redeyes
what do you thank of this unit does it work? I have a walker dog that when im ready to go and she is not when i call her she will bolt good coon dog trees alot of coon very accurate but when im ready im ready would have shot her a few times but always goes and findes a coon she has no revers looking to change that.
I don't know if the Alpha has tone ability but the tone can fix your problem. Some people train with an ecollar and garmin. We don't like to shock a dog while on a coon so....
You teach the dog to come when the tone button is used, do this in a field during the day. Then at night when you push the tone, watch the garmin, if they don't turn around and head back, tone again, wait 30 seconds, if they don't respond, start using low level shock and increase as needed. Anyway they learn to come no matter what when you push the tone button and you have a good handle on the dog. This can come in handy if they are headed for a highway too. The end result is they don't think you are shocking them for running coon, you are shocking them to come back. It works good. The tone works better than calling them because your dog may be upwind and can't hear you from a mile away, but a good ecollar tone can reach them.
The end results I've seen once the dog is trained, they figure this out and 99% of the time all you have to do is tone them, no shock is needed.
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