Electric Collar – What To Look For
It’s always more prudent to research before you make the purchase, especially when you’re planning to get electric collar for your pet. Here are some of those features.
Just the right transmission range. Decide on this first, because it affects everything. Maybe you just need a training collar for your backyard, when you bring your dog out there. If you have working dogs or sheep dogs, you may need a considerably longer range. Remember that some models carry heftier prices because of their capacity to work in great distances and on multiple dogs, so the choice is really up to you.
Feature that tells how much power the batteries on the transmitter and collar remains, and how far your dog is from the transmitter. It’s handy to have a feature that tells you how far your dog is from you, when you’re holding the transmitter; that way you can call your dog back when it tries to leave transmission range. If you’re out on the park or are using the remote training collars in a large area (such as a farm on some hunting ground) this features might come handy. The battery indicator feature shouldn’t underestimated, either 9if the batteries run out unexpectedly, you want to know before that happens). This is so that you can see immediately when you need to cancel your hunting, or any activity, owing to the possibility your dogs could run off while the collar’s batteries are dead or dangerously low.
Audible signals. It’s always reassuring to hear a sound after you pressed or clicked on something, as a way of knowing that something happened. That way when your dog’s collar is within earshot, you can also hear the beep on the collar, so you can immediately tell if your dog is nearby.
Batteries you can keep recharging over and over. Some electric collar models come with detachable batteries – the standard kind that needs to be replaced with new ones. Since not every dog owner keeps bringing with him or her new sets of batteries, it’s better to go with a model with batteries you can recharge both in your home and in your own car.
Clear transmission all the time. You may want to get models that rely on FM signals for very clear transmission. That means your transmitter can reliably send signals to the collar even when you find yourself in hilly, wooded, and urban areas with so many buildings.
Multiple dog capability. You might want an electric collar package that already has many collars – and one transmitter – or at least the capacity to buy more collars later on, in case the number of your dogs increase.
Controls you don’t need a degree to figure out. In the age of the iPhone when user interface and ease of use can make or break a product, you want a transmitter for your electric collar that won’t give you a headache just to figure it out. So shop one that you think, after reading up on reviews about some models, offers an intuitive user experience.
