Dog and Equipment Terms

Chain Choke Collar: The typical collar used as a correction aid with dogs. A chain link collar that constricts around the dog's neck when the collar is attached to a leash and pulled by the trainer.
Come on Command: The dog responds to the come command while at a distance from the trainer.
Crate: A portable cage made of plastic or metal used as a means to transport the dog or as a place for the dog to spend the night.
Doggy Hearing Aid: A means to get the dog's attention or as a correction method. Common Hearing Aids are a squirt bottle to squirt the dog in the face to get attention, or an old plastic milk jug with 10 or 20 pennies. Shake the jug, and the noise will alarm the dog to attention.
Doggy Pushups: A control exercise that is going from sit to down to sit to down repeatedly. This illustrates that the dog knows the difference between sit and down.
Gentle Leader Head Collar: Similar to a horse halter. Fits over the dog's muzzle and around the neck, and is used when the dog is distracted when heeling. When the human in charge applies an easy pull and release action with this device, the dog's whole head will be involved in the correction.
Heel: Your dog walking at your left side on a leash. The dog should walk at your pace and speed.
Leash Correction: Quick jerk on the leash by the trainer to discourage incorrect behavior. It is always accompanied by voice correction.
Pack: A group of dogs in the wild with a leader dog that all other dogs are subordinate to. In a training situation, the dog's family is the pack, and the Trainer will be the leader of the pack.
Pinch Collar: A form of a collar used for more aggressive, physical dogs that has blunt barbs on the chain collar that squeeze the dog's neck with out crushing the windpipe.
Snap and Release: The main form of correction used in dog training. It is used as negative reinforcement to incorrect behavior. The snap and release is done with a quick, upward pull on the leash so that the choke collar quickly constricts the dog�s neck. Do not hold the snap and choke the dog, a quick jerk will do.

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