Do It Yourself Drawbacks

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For long term success (and fairness to the dog), proper dog containment training takes into account the personality, behavior and unique responses of each dog. Knowing when to allow the dog to receive a correction as part of electronic fence containment training as well as how many (if any) corrections a dog should receive in a training session is critical to not only the success of training but to the well being of the dog.

Animals relate what is happening around them at the same time they receive the correction - for example, the visual indication of the containment flags, and the beep tone the electronic collar emits. This is known as 'paired associative learning.' This is not only necessary but beneficial to long term training success. Additionally, the containment trainer becomes part of this negative association, because each time the dog receives the correction during training guess who is there, as well? Would you want your dog relating the negativity of the correction to you? Most people don't.

Proper training takes both time and real life distractions that the dog is likely to encounter. A proven, systematic training regimen over time, such as the K-9 Nine Pillars of Training, has proven to be the most successful way to ensure long term containment success.

Long term training success vs. not leaving the yard. We use the term long term training success because often people will mistakenly conclude after a few training session that the dog 'knows' to stay in the yard. This initial success is not based on a dog's KNOWING their boundaries but a generalized fear of 'something bad out there in the yard.' Long term training success means the dog is not afraid to be in the yard, but quite the opposite; the dog is comfortable in the yard AND also understands the meaning of the flagged containment boundary.

With K-9 Contain and Train:

• Our success rate is 100% for dogs we train.
• Over 95% of our clients have K-9 do the training.
• With our "Lifetime Containment & Training" Guarantee we guarantee the training of your dog for their lifetime.
• With our "Lifetime Containment & Training" we will train any additional dogs you add to your household FREE.