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 @4pack: a happy circumstance that I can work at home until some years. Correctly. But that means, that I exactly know what the real life means.

I am surprised actually that the education of the dog is made dependent on the training method or collar with priority - after first also different methods were tried. I said: one "could" think about it…. not "has to think".

It is wrong, if someone thinks - I sit at home and say "honey,honey,honey" all day long with the dogs. No. The dogs however accompany me all day long, because they wait for it, when it goes again to training - is called, them are also impatiently, I ignore that without punishing… however behave calmly, because they know reliably: ONLY if we drive off  ( 4 times a week, sometimes more, different not planning days ) - or if I take the leashes, then begins fun - fun comes for the dogs in the sense of training/work/environment/walking. They observe me, my movements absolutely exactly and " know" exact, when we´ll go. Over my normal working day they adapt. Which I work, is also uninteresting for the dogs. Included the kitchen.

I did not say that it is correct everything, which I make. I said, if one dogs more exactly observed as her us, has one it more easily and needs no so much different training methods and different collars and no e-collars.

Naturally dogs are different - I have two of it momentarily: completely differently. Nevertheless I am only one person and use the same system with both, and it works. It worked also too by my other gsd-dogs before. And I notice even that, that which did make itself errors adapts to that what no errors makes. I can walk through the city without problems with my my dogs. They orient themselves at me, only at me. And I need not a different collar for this way or that training. That is that what I mean.

That: "spare the rod - spoil the child" - I hate. Of course I have a child ( now not a child = adult, he said  ). We use another saying: "First give them a nest, later then wings." This ist for children, not for dogs. For dogs I would say: all their live give them an absolutely safe nest with different borders. Important is the "nest", not the borders - the borders they learn easy - from earliest youth beginning. Hopefully that it is to understand what I mean.

May be, it has a cultural background. I have the feeling that is the reason for misunderstanding.

And still: we make the dogs. The dogs do not come "complicate and stubborn" into the world - but blindly and deaf and train from the first day.

"As for the husband  short, simple words/directions Work best ( on kids too)  i.e point to garbage, look at husband  and say Garbage, OUT while moving the pointed finger towards door. This teaches them to learn ( no long sentance to listen to like "Honey, Please tkae the garbage out for me" ( Blah Blah balh).   He heard "Garbage out"  and with the hand signal if done everytime, in time you will be able to just look and point!!!!  after chore is done reward  with praise (I love you)  and with TV controler, beer or computer time LOL "  

"MI_GSD, e- collar to the groin area. Husband, not the dog! I'll let you decide what setting. LOL"

"MI_GSD will be getting a nice new phone on hubby!  On the plus side sounds like he was doing laundry when he got busted, at least you've got him that far (what is that equal to a BH?)"

LMFAO!  I love you guys.

Yes I did get a top of the line new cell with all the bells and whistles.  I now have GPS so he doesn't have to stop for directions.