In which I screamed like a 2 year old girl

[Midorikawa]

So, yesterday, my dog (who we got 1 year ago today! YAY!!!), and the neighbor's German Shorthaired Pointer were playing together. Both the neighbor and I had to go inside to go get chores done before leaving for the day, so we went to take our dogs inside. Her dog, Lily, decides to run to our door, and refuses to listen to the neighbor's voice commands. Since Lily has some really bad habits and won't listen to anything else, she's wearing a shock collar with a vibrate function, and unbeknownst to me, the neighbor vibrates the collar as a warning, which she ignores. She shocks the dog twice, and repeats the voice command, which she also completely ignores.

Right then, Lily tries to force her way into the front door, so I reach down to grab her collar, but she moves and I instead grab the shock collar. My index and middle fingers touch the two electrodes, and I think "Ohh. This could be bad if she decides to-*BZZZZT*" I screamed, let go, and jumped back, shaking my (now numb) hand. Apparently, after the vibrate, and 2 lower powered shocks, she cranked the output up to the max and hit it right as I touched the 2 electrodes in the collar.

It took an hour for me to get feeling in my hand, and my wife had a good laugh at my expense. The neighbor felt horrible, but I laughed it off and told her it was my bad timing and hand placement.

If I didn't have bad luck, I swear, I'd have no luck at all, sometimes.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

Did you have a birthday for him? (Yay happy home! )
Is it that Lily is stubborn, or in need of more training?
At any rate... yeah! No luck, bad luck... geeze... hopefully your wife kissed your boo boo and made it better?

[Midorikawa]

Did you have a birthday for him? (Yay happy home! )
Is it that Lily is stubborn, or in need of more training?
At any rate... yeah! No luck, bad luck... geeze... hopefully your wife kissed your boo boo and made it better?

Since the wife and I work opposite shifts (she works 8-5, I work 4-midnight) we never see each other. That makes a party of sorts hard. Instead, I took him to the park to play with him, then gave him a pig ear as an extra special treat. Wife's taking him to his favorite store (mart of pets) for more dog biscuits, so he's had a pretty full day. He seems to know the day's special and is milking everything for all it's worth. :-D

It's that Lily is stubborn and keeps jumping up on people. They've tried about everything, and have gotten to where she won't really jump up on anyone except the wife and I, whom she absolutely loves. Usually, when she's doing something she's not supposed to, the neighbors will vibrate the collar and she'll get the hint and stop. Yesterday, not so much.

[draggar]

That bark collar is turned up WAY too high. I've been zapped by them before and while a shock (no pun intended - as in a surprise) it shouldn't make your hand numb.

Jumping is not hard to fix. When she jumps on you, take a step forward. It is a dominance move and it'll throw her off balance.

[Midorikawa]

That bark collar is turned up WAY too high. I've been zapped by them before and while a shock (no pun intended - as in a surprise) it shouldn't make your hand numb.

Jumping is not hard to fix. When she jumps on you, take a step forward. It is a dominance move and it'll throw her off balance.

It wasn't a bark collar. It was a remote controlled shock collar that she uses when Lily isn't listening or doing something really bad that she shouldn't be doing. It has a vibrate function, as well as a remotely controlled power setting. She cranked it up to 100, after a warning vibrate, followed by a shock at 33 and 66 percent didn't do anything.

The problem is that while I do that, most people she was jumping up on before had a "oh don't worry about it" mentality, which undoes the training they were trying to instill.

[hinakiba777]

Ouch! That sounds nasty.

[draggar]

It wasn't a bark collar. It was a remote controlled shock collar that she uses when Lily isn't listening or doing something really bad that she shouldn't be doing. It has a vibrate function, as well as a remotely controlled power setting. She cranked it up to 100, after a warning vibrate, followed by a shock at 33 and 66 percent didn't do anything.

The problem is that while I do that, most people she was jumping up on before had a "oh don't worry about it" mentality, which undoes the training they were trying to instill.

Even so, it shouldn't make your hand numb especially for that long. I've accidentally closed wall sockets with by bare hands ("are you sure the power is off here?" "YES!!!") and it shocked the hell out of me, my hand was close to numb for a minute or two. (BTW - I am not discouraging the use of shock / bark collars, we use them, too).

As for people with the "it's OK" mentality - yell at them. Let them know letting the dog(s) get away with it is damaging its training.

[dalesys]

...and I'll bet all the wives want one of those collars now...

[RayvenQ]

The way I deal with my aunts jumpy dog is to get it ina headlock and wrestle him to the ground, all in a playful manner though, come to think of it, he seems to enjoy that...I may have worked out why he keeps jumping up on me.