 Hello everybody and welcome back to the coolest dog journey channel right here on YouTube. I'm Tom Davis, America's Canon educator. This is Lakota. Today I'm going to be answering a very frequently asked question by you guys on how to properly fit the remote collar to your dog. And don't forget to watch the full video because we are going to be playing Tom's trivia later on in the episode. Now it sounds kind of silly to say like how do you put on a collar? Sounds pretty self-explanatory you just put it on and well I would say I would agree but there's also some really key components to make sure that you're doing this properly. And as you guys know I really really like using dog cheer products so today I'm going to be sizing up the dog cheer arc with Lakota. Now Lakota is about 50 pounds. She's a Dutch Shepherd. All she wants to do right now is go play ball but I'm just going to show you guys how to put this on properly to make sure that your dog training is consistent and effective especially when you're training off leash. It's very important. Normally your remote collar will come with this plastic strap. It looks like this it's very black sometimes orange depending on what color you get and then your remote would be on here. I switched it out to a bungee collar which looks like this and so I'm going to leave the the description below or I'm going to leave the link in the description below where you guys can purchase these bungee straps for your remote collar. Now the dog cheer has a one inch collar strap so you can't get the three fourths inch like maybe the 280c or the iq mini which are a little bit smaller collars so this is a one inch bungee and again I'm going to leave that link in the description below so you guys can shop all my amazon products that I suggest and so what this does guys is it has a little bungee here and when you put the black strap on the dog this has no like leeway at all. It doesn't it doesn't stretch at all. It doesn't give the dog any opportunity to flex out and typically when your dogs are training with the remote collar for obedience they're probably going to be off-leash because that's why we love using the remote collars is for that responsible reliable safe off-leash control and so if you look again I'm just going to show you how this works so your collar is going to go on here and I put yellow tape on pretty much everything because we have a lot of other people training here so I mark everything as mine with yellow it doesn't come like this but this is the dog to arc on the one inch bungee strap and this is the bungees here so these stretch no no no no no she thinks she's done she's not done touch good girl so she just wants to play ball like I said guys this is her ball playing field right here so now to answer your question very basically on where the collar should be I like to put the collar on the sides of the dog's neck I don't like it up here because this is where the bone is I like to put it right on the side here right against the dog's main muscles right here so then what you do is you take these little antennas tighten it up like this and then it's nice and tight on the dog um so that's how you would put the remote collar on a dog you guys are new to remote collar training or if you haven't watched any of my other videos on how the actual remote collar works you'll know that depending on the collar like the dog to IQ mini has plastic contact points the dog to arc has metal contact points all right guys time for Tom's trivia the question is what is the most popular dog in the world leave your answers in the comments below so your points here have to be touching the dog's skin in order for really good contact and so I like to put it on here make sure it's nice and tight pull these bungees tight so it's touching the skin and again when you're using the bungee when the dog's running which is going to be in a b-roll here in a minute when she's running she's chasing the ball and she's opening her mouth and her muscles her muscles are flexing in and out this bungee is going to allow this collar to flex a little bit instead of being really constricted with the stock photo or the stock the stock collar if you will if you have a dog with double coats like Lakota has two coats she has her guard hairs which is the outside coat and then she has her insulation coat on the inside and if you have a dog like a Malamute or Siberian Husky even a golden retriever something with very very thick coat on most dog to collars you can actually unscrew these contact points and put longer ones in they make an inch quarter inch I think a half inch as well so when you order your remote collar from dog tree you can simply just order the the extra prongs or I'm sorry the extra contact points to make sure that you're getting good contact now why now why is it so important for you to have good contact points it's very simple especially when you're when your dog is new or the dog that you're training is new to the remote collar you must have consistency so making sure that every single time you're using the remote collar and you're trying to communicate with the dog and you're trying to train the dog and you're trying to get the dog's attention that it's consistent so a lot of times what happens is people will get a collar and it'll kind of hang off the dog and it won't really touch the dog's neck until the dog moves right or something and if you're high on your levels you could correct the dog and you don't want to confuse them so making sure that the collar is really tight is really important and in my next video that's going to come out in a couple of days I'm going to tell you guys when to take the collar on when to use the collar when to take it off so on and so forth if you guys haven't watched my e-collar training videos on how to introduce the remote collar you can click the link that's going to be above here now one thing I want to share with you guys that I don't think I ever have before here on the channel is why I started using the remote collar so before I had my facility I had a dog walking business I would go out and walk dogs for a living and that's how I basically started working with dogs professionally and I can remember that we were out in my Saint Bernard he's still live he's kicking he's not here right now but he was out and he we were going over these train tracks and the dog that I was walking with was with me and my Saint Bernard Thompson was off leash now at that point I certainly was a trainer I didn't know how to train off leash that good I didn't really know anything I just knew that I had a passion for dogs I understood them and at the time when we were going over the railroad tracks he started running away from me and he thought it was fun he thought it was a game he was probably two years old at the time and he started running I had my dog that I was walking in one hand and I looked to my left and I saw a train headlight and I looked to my right and I saw my Saint Bernard running away hey and so and so I did what anybody else would do is obviously like yell at your dog try to get them back you know it's frantic it was a very chaotic stressful adrenaline situation and it was a long time ago but I remember it like it was today I looked to the left looked to the right he started running I had two options I either hope that he gets off the tracks while this train is coming or I try to get him off the tracks myself I I don't know if I made the right decision but I think I did I ran after him and I just remember turning around and hearing that and seeing that light and it was daylight but the light was on because I think they're always on and I just like instincts kicked in I looked I saw it coming like really close really really close and I just jumped and I grabbed him and I spinned off the tracks I kicked back and when you're on the railroad tracks I was running in sandals and they have like really wide planks and there's big rocks in between so I'm running on this train track with my dog that I'm walking and my dog's there it was it was not good not not not not good and this is all way before I started training dogs and so after that it was so close to us getting hit that the conductor actually was trying to stop the train and when he did stop he actually came out with this clipboard and he thought he had the right of report of hitting me and the dogs and luckily thankfully he did not do any of that and we were able to walk away on scratch so thank god for that but that's where something clicked to me where I was like I never want to be in that situation again so I started looking up like off-leash training and then Jeanine Lazarus which is a she's a trainer down in South Carolina she's actually from England and she's the one who introduced me to dog cha and my story kind of began there with there was no politics involved it made sense it was like hey you can use this remote control to to train your dog off-leash to communicate with him at no point did I say I don't want to hurt my dog I don't want to shock my dog that never I was like my I almost died my dog almost it was really really bad and at that point like I said there was no politics involved there was no training politics or aspects into it it was just like I never want that to happen again and it wasn't until like two or three years into training I started working remote collar and people started asking questions about this shock collar and then I was like oh you guys think oh wait and so anyway I just wanted to share that story with you guys because the E-caller wasn't something I threw in my toolbox because I wanted to just do it the E-caller I put in my toolbox because I almost saw my dog die and that that's that was huge for me so anyway I just wanted to share that story with you guys because I thought maybe it would be helpful for you guys to know how I started doing the remote collar training and how organic and not even and like there was no like should I it was like yeah yeah definitely almost got ran over by a train how do I not let that happen again and then my next video that I'm going to do I'm going to be talking about dog training tools when you should be using them when not to be using them when they take collars off and there's the principles of using tools in your regular dog training day so make sure you like subscribe to my channel like I said before and if you guys haven't yet turn on your notification bell so you don't miss any opportunity to win some free no bad dog merch and again all of my equipment and their merch and the podcast everything's going to be linked in the description below if you guys want to copy yourself some no bad dog merch I'll talk to you next time thank you guys so much bye