| For many dog owners, training their pets means | | | | for up to eight separate launch controls. |
| teaching them to use an outside bathroom, not to | | | | Not All Dog Training Supplies Used For Hunting |
| chew up the furnishings and not to jump up on | | | | For those who do not use a dog for hunting, dog |
| every person who walks in the door. Many forget | | | | training supplies can be useful for teaching limits of |
| there are other jobs dogs can do and specialty | | | | confinement without the need to erect an |
| dog training supplies may be needed. For example, | | | | unsightly fence around their property. A special |
| a good hunting dog may be born from a family of | | | | receiving collar can be worn by the dog with an |
| hunting dogs, but they will still need appropriate | | | | underground electric fence that gives the animal a |
| training to learn what the human half of the | | | | small electrical shock if they attempt to pass the |
| hunting team expects from them. | | | | line. |
| Even the best breeding cannot prepare a dog not | | | | It does not take long for the animal to |
| to jump at the sight and sound of a sudden | | | | understand where the limitations are and once it |
| flushing of a bird from hiding. Quail and chukars | | | | has remembered the boundary, the fencing can |
| are used with funnels made for pointing the birds | | | | be turned off. The dog will most likely not |
| flight in a specific direction. The funnels, considered | | | | attempt to cross the line fearing a repeat of the |
| dog training supplies, are also used to recall the | | | | jolt from previous attempts. Another of the collar |
| training birds into their cages or hutches to be | | | | related dog training supplies is used to control |
| used over again. Chukars, a member of the | | | | barking and as the dog learns that a bark causes |
| pheasant family are better thought of as training | | | | a shock, will be hesitant to bark. |
| birds since they flush faster and louder than quail. | | | | A similar system exists which enables the user to |
| For those who do not like using live birds with | | | | apply a shock by remote control to help training |
| their dog training supplies, bird launchers can boost | | | | for behavior modification. For example, confined |
| artificial birds in a sudden fashion, similar to a real | | | | to the yard the dog attempts to dig up a flower |
| bird being launched from the brush. Some use a | | | | bed. A short push of the remote control will |
| manual launch mechanism while others can be | | | | remind the dog that behavior is unacceptable and |
| activated by remote control with a few available | | | | helps train the animal to leave the flowers alone. |