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No matter how much you love them, a dog with bad manners is a disaster waiting to happen. Not only can they do extensive damage to objects in your home, but they can actually hurt people, and even ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The use of electronic collars, or "e-collars," to shock an animal to train them is currently being debated in the legislature. Some families blame those collars for harming and ...

When training pointers, Josh Miller isn’t opposed to using e-collars. He just uses them after all fundamental work has been done. Josh Miller Here’s a joke: What’s the only thing two dog trainers can ...

No matter what you call them – shock collars, e-collars, or the more scientific-sounding “collar mounted electronic training aids” – are designed with the most basic form of learning in mind, operant ...

What is a shock collar? Pets bring a lot of joy to our lives, but they also take a lot of time and energy. Well-trained and disciplined animals, especially dogs, lead consistently happier, healthier ...

Popular streamer Hasan Piker faces animal cruelty accusations after a clip showed his dog yelping. Piker claims it was an accident and his dog wears a vibration-only collar. Critics, however, point to ...

YouTuber Charles "MoistCr1TiKaL" has called Twitch streamer Hasan "HasanAbi" "disingenuous" for saying that people who believe he used a shock collar on his dog are "bad people" and "grifters." In a ...