 What's going on guys? Tom Davis here, America's canine educator. Welcome back to my YouTube channel. Thank you so much for joining me. Today I'm gonna do a frequently asked question you guys ask all of the time. Tom, I know you use a lot of remote collar training. You are a modern, e-collar dog trainer. You use off leash obedience with your remote collars. What collar do you use and why? Well, you're in luck because today I'm gonna go over a couple different models that we primarily use here at the Upstate Canine Academy. And the first model is, is the Dog Tra Arc. Now I'm gonna be demonstrating a couple different units with a couple different dogs. This is the Dog Tra Arc. So the Dog Tra Arc is great for a lot of different reasons and I'll show you a couple of them right now. So here's the Dog Tra Arc guys. It's got this really nice curvature going on or the ARC, some people call it arcs, some people call it ARC. I call it arc because I think it's arced. I really, really enjoy this model. This is my second go to other than 280C which we're gonna talk about in a minute. And a lot of you guys ask what model to use? What company do I use? I use Dog Tra, the model is the ARC. Now for you guys just dealing with pet obedience and dealing with getting your dog off leash and just creating that off leash freedom and the responsibility to communicate with your dog off leash, using modern dog training is really gonna be predicated off of how long and how far you want the distance to go with the actual unit. So this particular unit goes three fourths of a mile. I really don't ever need three fourths of a mile. I actually just like this unit because it has this curvature. So when you put it on the dog it's actually just really comfortable for them because it's not as blocky as some of the other models. The other models that we're gonna be talking about is the 280C which is their compact unit which is my go to unit for almost all the clients that come in. It's got a great price point but the ARC is for a little bit more money has three fourths of a mile and it's got a really cool design. So the ARC is much like a lot of the Dog Tra units it has your pager which is your vibrate it has your nick and has your continuous and then of course it has your dial here that controls your stimulation settings. So the ARC is what I use primarily on Lakota which is my Dutch Shepherd which a lot of you guys ask about. She's four years old, she's a Dutch Shepherd she's not a German Shepherd. She's very, very sweet. And I like using the ARC with her because it fits nice and then of course you guys always ask me about comfortability and how long they should be on which we're gonna talk about in a minute but I have this bungee cord. So this bungee strap guys just allows the dog to be able to move a little bit freely without the, oh my goodness gracious great balls of fire. So the ARC here guys when it's here when I move like this it gives the dog the opportunity to push this out and it kind of slides back in. So it's a little bit more precision based, precision based it's a little bit more consistent pressure on the dog's neck as they're moving around with comfortability. So one big thing about any tools that you use with dogs guys is of course the fit it has to fit properly in order to work. So I'm just gonna show you with the bungee strap here now just so you guys know the bungee strap is not sold by Dog Tra it's something that I add on extra. The link for my Amazon links are below you guys can find it right on Amazon. This is a one inch bungee strap for the Dog Tra ARC. So I'm just gonna, and you could get all sorts of funky crazy colors it's really fun. I chose pink for her cause she's a girl and she's the sweetest thing ever. So I'm just gonna show you how your Dog Tra ARC should fit in. So when you're sizing it on guys it's obviously too big this way. Your E-collar will never work like this. You have to make sure that the actual contact points here are actually touching the dog's skin. So this is the bungee and it just slides like this and that's it. And now it's tight and you wanna make sure that you can fit your hand under there but it's not sliding around. So it's nice and tight so even if you wiggle this back and forth it doesn't go anyway. So this is the ARC guys so you can see it's nice and ARC'd right on her neck. So it looks pretty cool. And she never really like cares that it's on she just wants to play and tug and yes. And so really what it's about guys is when you're out with your dog and you're gonna be off leash for me being at the Upstate Canyon Academy we have stuff going on all the time. We have dogs, we have people, the construction. There's something going on all the freaking time. So I always keep at least one sometimes two of these on depending on how many dogs I have out. And again it's more about the same thing as like a seatbelt guys I tell you this all the time that when you have a dog off leash I love my dogs, I love my clients I care about them dearly and I wanna make sure that if a gopher, a deer, a crazy drunk construction worker comes running across my property and chases my dogs out of here I'm able to control them if anything happens. So it's like a seatbelt, you're under control you're a pretty good driver but you really don't know what other people are gonna do. And I love my dogs way too much to be naive to think that nature and things out of my control aren't gonna predict some of their behaviors because of course that can happen. All right you guys number one go-to remote collar from Dogtra is the 280C. Now it's a 280C because it's their compact unit it's a great collar for anybody starting off with remote collars goes a half a mile and like all the other dog training or dogtra units they are completely waterproof both ends of the spectrum the remote and the receiver. And it looks a lot like the Dogtra Arc remote very similar except the Dogtra 280C has a really high intensity pager or a vibrate which as you guys know may or may not know I use a lot for disruptors working with behavior modification cases so it's really really great for disrupting behaviors whereas the Arc doesn't have as much intensity in the actual vibrate or the pager. So I'm just got Hawke out and I'm working with him and I wanna just show you my absolute go-to unit the price point is great. So a couple frequently asked questions I'm gonna talk about with the 280C guys is how long this collar should be on your dogs as well as where it should actually fit on the dog's neck. So as I was saying before with Lakota guys is this is my seat belt this is my oh crap moment this is the thing that goes on my dogs when I can't control the environment around me because I wanna make sure that I have full control no matter what happens wild buffaloes coming out of nowhere bald eagles swooping down who the heck knows what's gonna happen. So this goes on my dogs for 46 hours at a time if I'm at work or if I'm running out or if I'm using dogs as demos but when I'm out all my dogs are off leash they're running around they're having a great time I hardly ever ever ever have to use this as this is conditioned with my dog. It's just there just in case because I love my dogs and I want them to enjoy their freedom but I also wanna make sure I can control them if they decide that they're gonna chase a wild buffalo deer antelope rabbit snake spider whatever it is. So you guys can leave your collar on for hours at a time a couple of things you guys can do is again get the bungee strap so it's a little bit more comfortable for them as if they're running around and they're being very active biting on things retrieving things whatever work your dog does but you guys can keep it on for many hours at a time just of course take it off at night take it off if you're really not gonna use it but if you're in and out with your dog all day long like we are with our dogs you can leave it on it's totally fine. One thing you guys can do when you put it on is you can rotate it to different areas some dogs have allergic reactions to the contact points so just keep it on and figure out where the best place is for you to leave it for your dog and that leads me to my next thing guys is where to actually put this on your dog's neck I like to put my remote collars right on the side this is the area of the most surface right here so I don't go here, you can go here but the best is just right on the side guys so you can either go here or you can switch it up and go here but I never put it under on the dog's throat or lanax I put it right on the side and then I use my bungee and I strap it up like that. All right you guys so those are my two units really for pet, dog trim makes all sorts of great things off and it's not just collars guys they make ball throwers, bird throwers all sorts of different stuff which I'm gonna make videos on in the next coming months as we keep going into fall but the Dog Trit 280C half a mile great vibrate for behavior modification and disrupting and discouraging behaviors and then the Dog Trit Arc has the sleek design that's curved that goes three fourths of a mile and of course they're both waterproof and those are the collars I suggest so if you guys ask me what collars do you guys suggest what do you use Tom? Dog Trit 280C Dog Trit Arc the 1900S is also good some of their collars guys they go a mile and a half and it really just depends on how long you want or how far you want your dog away from how much control you need and of course it just depends on what you're doing with your dog is your dog a hunting dog are they a water dog? Or are you just working on basic obedience and for the majority of you your questions are geared towards basic obedience and what collars I recommend I hope this video was helpful if it was do me a favor guys hit that like button smash that subscribe button for videos like this every single week I took a week off because my freaking computer broke but I got a brand new one so thank you guys for being patient with that videos coming out every single week per usual going into the holiday season got some very very exciting news to announce in the next coming months I hope you guys enjoyed this video again if you haven't yet do not forget cop yourself some no bad dog swag support the YouTube channel leave a comment in the comments below if you guys have any questions about the dog tree units I appreciate you watching I'll talk to you next time peace