u/LBH328

I posted a couple weeks back about and unplanned correction with my Labrador who wears a Mini Educator. As many of you predicted, it was ultimately a long term success as well. We are visiting family in NY and they live on a lake. I have recalled him from ducks on the water and from a dead/rotting squirrel with no “taps”.

Here’s the gem: a neighbor has a wild doodle (wtf is with all these dogs being so insane???) and my Labrador started to beeline for him and I recalled. He paused but licked back in. We’d been at a 12 and I calmly popped up to 24. Recall, blew me off, tap. 180 back to me!

Pay day and a water retrieve. Suddenly that dog didn’t matter anymore.

This is so amazing. My dogs entire world has opened up!!!!

I hope Evan Doggett reads this but I will email him as well.

I posted this on YT under one of Larry Krohn's older videos. For context:

• 5.5 yr old male, neutered labrador retriever (UK Hunting type - high drive)
• History of intermittent leash aggression towards other dogs, with worst incidents occuring in our neighborhood
• Enrolled in online course from Evan Doggett about 1.5 months ago and use a Mini Educator

Hello there. I saved this video recently for "later", thinking I wouldn't need it for a while. I am somewhat new to ecollar training and a student of Evan Doggett's courses. I was outside working my labrador retriever on extended down and some basic recall on the long lead. My neighbor's chihuahua came over (unleashed) and I immediately moved with my dog to avoid any fixating. They were able to meet without issue. The neighbor came out with her enormous, female standard poodle (ON leash). The poodle was going NUTS. The poodle pulled free from the owner and came towards ME with loud sharp barks and teeth snapped. My dog immediately moved towards her and she ran back to the owner. My dog continued after her and I went from his working level of 15 to 23 and then I spun the dial, said "here!" and tapped once at 56. He let out a yelp, but immediately recalled. We reengaged with the chihuahua and then back to fun recall work. He is totally, 100% fine, but I am pretty rattled. I really have been so avoidant of anything resembling a punitive use of the collar. My take-away is that I need more motor skill training with my hand on the mini educator, so I can be more refined with increasing the level. I don't think for a second that 56 was necessary. The other lesson is that, well... it worked. I called my (formerly?) dog-reactive dog off a WILD dog and back over to me with another dog wandering around our yard. I assume this is overall a success?