An elephant-in-the-room, open request to all trainers:
Address and remove the use of all forms of barbarism from all training.
Address the need to use, the promise of use, the hinting of use, or the idea of the need for use of all forms of barbarism in all training — no coercive collar usage.
The thing nobody is willing to mention but which everyone secretly wishes everybody else would mention: the dislike of trainers using an electronic collar or shock or coercive collar (of any kind) in the course of board and train training, or in any other extended training period. Especially in training arrangements where the owner agrees to allow extended periods of time — often multiple weeks — when the dog is sequestered from them.
There are so many contributing and interrelated factors here.
If training is effective, its results are going to be nearly immediate, obviating the need for either or both long training times or the use of corrective collars.
Doug Parker
DOuGTrainer.com