Griz Gear, Full Kit, unedited
You're in a good spot? >> Mhm. >> So, this one will start here, right? This is the flat flat collar. The flat collar is probably the worst collar. It's the one that we use all the time. If but and so some of the things that people use the flat collars for, right? We use it to put the tags on. And then people will throw a lead on it, right? The problem with the flat collar is is that all of the If you come up here, right here, look, you can see right there. So, when you're pulling on this, all of the pressure comes right up here on her front of her throat. And so, the flat collar is really good for things like um we might use it to uh I tie her up to something, right? So, if I needed to go in a store, this this could be something that a flat collar could be useful for, right? To to hold her in place. Some of these sometimes they have what they call a Martingale strap where um Martingale would be something like this where it has a section that tightens up as it gets pulled, right? And the pieces come together. And we know that from our like blockhead dogs, like Rottweilers and Cane Corsos and those jacked dogs, they have big necks and little heads. So, when people tie them up, the collar can just slip off the head. Which it can off of our dogs, too, right? A little harder. And so, Jade, you might be asking, "Why do I use this collar?" Right? Cuz I don't use this collar for any reason. Chris, come here. When you see me put this collar on her, the reason I put this collar on her is 100% All I use this collar is when I'm doing tracking with her. And the reason I do use one is because the when we're tracking with these these longer leads, the leash will go under her legs and back this way. And so as she pulls and gets into it, instead pulling on her throat right here, right? It pulls on the top of her neck and all that's doing is pulling her head down closer to the ground. So when I track on this, if she goes too fast, it will just pull her nose closer to the ground. And so that's what we why I use this for footstep tracking, right? Other than that, this is not super useful. The other thing that you know about that some people can use it for is when they're lazy and they don't want to train their dogs is we do that thunder leash no pull technique where we wrap it around here. Okay? So the problem with this is there's no real good training with this, but it does stop the pulling as you know immediately. Okay? So that's this collar. This what Denali's collar, flat collar. This one's a little wider. It's just for aesthetics. It'll be nicer on her throat than the other one and it's prettier, but it doesn't do anything different. It face still sucks. This one you made. Grace, come here. And so these ones, I can't find the one that you made for her specifically, but these ones are nice because it cinches up. This little slip collar. So we can kind of use it for corrections now. So heel. And it doubles as a bit of a leash, right? So these ones are better because when it tightens up and we pull on it, it doesn't put all the pressure on her throat. As it comes in it tightens up around her whole around her whole head. For the best use of these ones we want them up here by the ears. And so as she pulls, it'll start to to to choke her a little bit and that's why some people call them chokers, other people call them slip collars. So, that's that one. Okay? We have one more flat collar to talk about, which is this one. This is the agitation collar. Gris, come here. This one actually I can show you to sit is different than the other ones because it is meant for her to pull on her the rope right here, right? So, we have this we have a wider surface area with padding that collapses inwards, so when she yanks against this against this material, it gives a little bit. So, it's less likely to damage her her throat. So, I put when I put this one on her the idea here it they call these agitation collars is because we want to get her agitated and frustrated that she so that she makes uh so that as she pulls against Come here, Gris. So, to show you what I mean by that you get tire up here real quick. Gris, come. And grab a little treat for her. We start to get her excited. She can pull against it. It's not going to hurt her her throat. Come on. Come on. Yeah. These works a little bit better on the on the carpet. Sit. Come. Okay, good girl. Yes. So, that's just so that she can pull on this and it doesn't hurt her, okay? We can have the handle on it. And that's it that can work there. So, sometimes So, there's that one. This is the one that I need to talk about with Dad. This is the pinch collar. The Herm Sprenger, right? So, this one has this button in the middle of it to take it off and put it on. We have these links for sizing it. So, you They call it a pinch collar cuz you pinch these links together and then you can take a link out or put a link back in. Okay? So, this one is This one is quite a bit more difficult to talk about. So, Gris, come here. When we put these ones on her, Gris, no. Out. Sit. These ones go in front of all of the other collars. We put them up here around the neck. It's got this martingale portion on it here. So, as this comes in, it creates a biting sensation on her. And so, I like to have it We want it to be able to spin freely. And see, this one's spinning. It's a little rough, which is why I had that other that other link in there to make it a little easier to spin because she doesn't need such heavy corrections. So, if it's too tight, it won't spin and it becomes very sense It It It hurt It creates the bite at a more at an earlier mark, okay? So, 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5. So, I guess it doesn't matter. So, I'm going to put this one back on real quick and we'll have mismatching links. Trying to do this so the camera can see. Yes, there it goes. And then right here. The other thing to think about these for my dad and Wyatt is that if these are too loose, Gris, come here. If they're too loose, I I it I like it nice and tight so it's so so that it can spin and we can pull it I can pull this tight and you can see that it starts to get it still doesn't has some room to go before it's biting into her. But if it's too loose and the dog's gotten a fight you can see there's some space in here. So if two of these got hooked together, you'd probably be in for a pretty bad day. So for other people that had two dogs running this, you'd want these as tight as you can go to where they can still spin. The other thing about this is we have two rings here. So we have a live ring which affects the Martingale and then we have a dead ring. So when we want to walk around a when we don't want the biting effect we can choose to attach it to both rings. And what that does is it prevents her from it prevents the Martingale from tightening up and now acts like a flat collar. Um I don't really ever use it this way. If I I would probably just use another collar if I had it but if for some reason like you were going to track and this is all you brought I might use this and then let this go underneath for the tracking. Okay? As far as the corrections go, Chris come here. Heel. They're not super heavy so I when I I I practice with her with the healing, right? So I'll I'll get a good grip in my hand not that loose stuff but nice good grip. I'll be like sit. Just little ones like this, okay? Heel. Sit. That's all it takes and so what what's a way to see what's what you're feeling here, what I did what I like to do when I'm doing is I put it around my leg. And then you can kind of get an of the feeling that you're going to get when you yank on it. So, you could just kind of get If you give it a nice tight yank, you'll realize that your idea uh that these are going to go into her skin and pierce it and cause lots of harm is ridiculous. All this does is it's uh simulating like a mother wolf bite, you know? So, as this comes in, it tightens around here and this creates a biting effect around the neck. Actually safer than these. A lot of times I keep this short little leash on here. You've seen this on there. And this is just so I put this on here for like emergency purposes. So, when I'm walking and I need to deal with something quick, I can give her a quick Come on. And that's what that one's for. Okay? Now, to get on to what we were talking about earlier, we have the e-collars, okay? So, for you and I, red is Grizz, okay? Red is Grizz, black is Denali. We have the stems are here. This is the stimulation, and these are the vibrates. So, this vibrates here. This one vibrates here. You can We can change these to tones if we wanted to. And our our electric pressure, when we push this button, you see the red light hot stays on. It stays on until I let go. So, for Grizz, if you're listening to me, Jade, for Grizz, she starts to feel it at about 10. So, if I'm doing healing training with her, I can put this in at a 10, and I can hold the button on her, okay? If you want to Hold your wrist out. Can you put your wrist out? I promise you can't feel anything. Look. So, you feel nothing there, but she can notice it. So, when I'm doing healing work with her and she gets out of correction, we do it at this real low one. So, she just knows that she's needs to make some small adjustments. When I'm out at Mayberry or something, I'll put it at about a 15. And from here, I can feel it. There's a little tingling. It's not a big deal. You If you want to do it again, you can. Okay? Not a big deal, but you can feel it now, right? >> Mhm. >> She can feel it earlier. So, when we're in a low stimulation environment, I'll set this to 15. When I got >> feel that? >> Yeah. When I go out to Palmer's Park, I stick this at a 30. And now, it's pretty uncomfortable and I don't really like doing it anymore and we won't make you do it. Um so, at the the the the consensus is is that more stimulating the environment is, the more that you're going the the harder it's going to be the less she's sensitive she's going to feel. And so, if she takes off after a rabbit or something, right? I might hold this button and then start to crank this number up as we go. And you can see the light is on and I'll wait until we get her to stop or she starts vocalizing in some way that she's going to quit and then I bring her back and I lay her down. And we just we we lay down for about 10 seconds. It This will be off when she's down. As soon as she stops doing it, we let go. We make her down and we let her reset. Denali, on the other hand, she Mhm. We don't really need to go over like a a a 10 with her. If we do, it's it's an accident. She's very, very sensitive. She doesn't need anything >> I didn't feel the 10 at all. >> Most of the time with Denali, I'll just use the vibration effect, which is really good with Denali because you don't have to have perfect contact. So, she's so nervous about these things that you could just vibrate it. Now, when we go to put these on, we have a couple different ways that we put it on. So, first off, if it's night time, okay? I'll take you hold I think it's the P and no, it's the on and off and the the side buttons. So, at night time, if I'm going to have to Nollie wear it, this has got to be super loose. If you want to use the flashlights for both dogs. It It You cannot use the electricity and the lights together. So, keep that in mind. So, if you want lights, you lose this. If you have it tight enough to where you can use it, you won't be able to see anything. If you can see light, it's too loose. Come on. Grizz, come here. All right, for putting these on. Let me show you how I would do this stuff. Sit. Come here. Sit. So, I used to teach you up here at the top of the neck. This is where uh the uh Michael Ellis videos tell you to put it because it's the most sensitive. So, they would Michael Ellis videos would tell you to push this fur out of the way and take the contacts and put them up here at the top. The problem I found is when you put it up here, the collars move, especially when they scratch them. What I've started doing is I put it lower here, right here at the hardest part for Grizz. You see how it You and I had this conversation about her neck going two different directions? That's right where we do it. Grizz, Grizz, Grizz, sit. Sit. I know, it's a lot to ask without a reward. So, I'll take it and I'll move some fur out of the way and it and I just want to make sure I get contact information. Contact with the skin. Once it's there, I use one hand and hold it. The other hand comes over here onto the other side here. And we start to put this in one Can you see it over here? One handed, I stick this through. Once it's a little tight, I can let go with my right hand over here. This will stay in place. And I'll take this and I'll put it my all four fingers behind here. The reason I put all four fingers behind behind her neck is so I can pull this as tight as I can go. The it's I go as tight as I can go, but my four fingers are back here. So, I could almost make it to this one, but I couldn't quite. My four fingers are here and that's how I get it so that it's the same tightness every time. So, now when she goes to scratch, this doesn't move and it is the same tension every single time. And so, the the stimulation effect works the exact same every single time. And that's the important part. Denali. Come here, girl. Denali. Come here. Come here. Come here. I got I'll give you a treat. Come here. Sit. Come here, girl. Sit. So, Denali is actually a lot easier to put on because where I put her collar, she does her fur goes the same direction. So, I can just start to fold this out of the way. I get a connection point here and a point here. Hold it. My other hand just comes back here and I just slip it down. Put this in a loop because if you don't loop this one, it is too long and she will step on it. And when she steps on it, it's uncomfortable and it make it moves this collar around. So, that's all we have to do. The light, I I show you real quick while we have it on her. Denali, heel. You can see, you cannot this light will not help you. You might be able to help might help you find her, but it will not help you see in the dark. So, when we want to see in the dark, we loosen this bad puppy up, I drop it down here, and now when she walks with me, she's a walking flashlight. That's how we do the collars. To turn them off, I go here, and that's it for that. Um I'm going to talk to you real quick about these other things. So, the harness here, this harness is for the search and rescue guys at the moment. I told you I like the track on the collars cuz I like their neck to pull down. They want their dogs on harnesses. Harnesses make it easy for the dog to pull, no chance of them choking, but what it also does is it tells the dog that we're going to go do some tracking. So, we only put this on when we're going to do tracking. So, this particular harness goes on over the head, and then the body cinches second. And if I put this on Grizz, and we walk outside, she'll start looking for her track that she's looking for cuz that's the only thing that we use this for. You could use it in place of the agitation collar anytime you wanted to use the agitation collar wherever I set that at. Right here. That works, okay? Almost done, love. Last thing. The foods, okay? We have two foods that I have two treats that I buy usually, okay? Usually I buy something that is easy to see and has a good smell. So, this stuff is really what I use for I use this for tracking and for for um sometimes Denali Denali really loves treats, so I'll use these. These are more expensive but they but they have a higher value for the dogs. But most importantly, I can see these in the grass. So when I'm setting tracks, I can see when the dog walks over them. And they have enough of a smell to where Grizz can walk by one, smell it, and then backtrack to the next footstep. This Yes. Hard to demonstrate the uh the food drive when you have this one and this one. This food on the other hand is cheap. This is what we should be using most of the time for treats. You get this at Walmart. It's very cheap. It's actually a dog food. You could The first ingredient is beef, the second one is beef lung, then beef liver, then beef kidney. So it's a lot of freeze-dried meat, really. This food is much cheaper, and so I use this one for a lot for just whatever, right? Like it's like your kibble. I can just I don't feel bad just throwing it to them. The thing is is if I want to create more value with this treat, we turn it into a game. So that's when we make those like prey sounds. So the the high-pitched sounds that I make and that that trigger helps trigger the prey drive, and then we move it like prey, right? Close low to the ground and in circles, and I go woo. And she gets really excited about it. Good girl. Denali less so. We can get her excited a little bit more than that, but uh she's a she's a lot lower drive. I think that's everything. Good? We're eating love. >> Did you go over this lead? Did you want to go over that one? >> Um, I don't think I really need to. This is just a long lead that as you have seen me use, I use this for tracking with Grizz. The What makes this lead good, it's 30 ft long, which that's not what makes it good. Um, it rolls up nice and tight. There's no handle here, right? So, if I drop this lead and the material, you can feel it with your fingers, it slides really easy. So, the reason for this is so that when you're going and it's getting on the rocks, it's a lot less likely to get hung up. So, like if you had a long leather lead, for example, you're a lot more likely to find a spot where this cinches up, right? So, this one is for tracking and it's only for tracking and I have found with Grizz if I try to track her with no leash, she will go to air scent every time. And won't even look for a trail. She'll just go air scenting until she finds whatever she's looking for. If you put a lead on her, even something this ridiculously long and it stays loose, she will track or trail. She'll stay on the ground. She won't go to air scent. >> Because it goes underneath her belly, so it keeps her neck low to the ground, hence her nose low to the ground. >> It's also just an indicator to her. >> Mhm. >> So, like if I go out there and hide a walk out in the in the field and hide a toy, if I don't put this on her, she thinks, "Oh, I'm just going to go run around and look for this toy." And she'll just run in circles until she hits the scent cone of the toy. But, if I put this on her, she knows I'm not going to let her do that. >> Mhm. >> So, even though it's really long, she won't even try and she'll look for the trail as soon as I let her have it. And I can still you can give her a little bits of corrections with like uh uh tightening the pressure so that she sees the article and doesn't go over it, stuff like that. But, that's that's it. That's all of our gear.
Griz Gear Video E-Collar
Okay? So, for you and I, red is Grizz. Okay? Red is Grizz. Black is Denali. We have the stems are here. This is the stimulation, and these are the vibrates. So, this vibrates here. This one vibrates here. You get We can change these to tones if we wanted to. And our our electric pressure, when we push this button, you see the red light that stays on. It stays on until I let go. So, for Grizz, if you're listening to me, Jade, for Grizz, she starts to feel it at about 10. So, if I'm doing healing training with her, I can put this in at a 10, and I can hold the button on her, okay? If you want to hold your wrist out? Can you put your wrist out? I promise, you can't feel anything. Look. So, you feel nothing there, but she can notice it. So, when I'm doing healing work with her, and she gets out of correction, we do it at this real low one. So, she just knows that she's needs to make some small adjustments. When I'm out at Mayberry or something, I'll put it at about a 15. And from here, I can feel it if there's a little tingling. It's not a big deal. You If you want to do it again, you can. Okay? Not a big deal, but you can feel it now, right? She can feel it earlier. So, when we're in a low stimulation environment, I'll set this to 15. When I go >> I can feel that. >> Yeah. When I go out to Palmer's Park, I stick this at a 30. And now, it's pretty uncomfortable, and I don't really like doing it anymore, and we won't make you do it. Um so, if the the the the consensus is is that more stimulating the environment is, the more that you're going the the harder it's going to be the less she's sensitive she's going to feel. And so, if she takes off after a rabbit or something, right? I might hold this button and then start to crank this number up as we go. And you can see the light is on and I'll wait until we get her to stop or she starts vocalizing in some way that she's going to quit and then I bring her back and I lay her down. And we just we we lay down for about 10 seconds. It This will be off when she's down. As soon as she stops doing it, we let go. We make her down and we let her reset. Denali on the other hand, she We don't really need to go over like a 10 with her. If we do, it's it's an accident. She's very very sensitive. She doesn't need anything. >> I didn't feel the 10 at all. >> Most of the time with Denali, I'll just use the vibration effect, which is really good with Denali because you don't have to have perfect contact. Since she's so nervous about these things that you could just vibrate it. Now when we go to put these on, we have a couple of different ways that we put it on. So, first off, if it's night time okay? I'll take you hold I think it's the P and no, it's the on and off and the the side buttons. So, at night time, if I'm going to have Denali wear it this has got to be super loose if you want to use the flashlights for both dogs. It It You cannot use the electricity and the lights together. So, keep that in mind. So, if you want lights, you lose this. If you have it tight enough to where you can use it, you won't be able to see anything. If you can see light it's too loose. Denali Grizz, come here. All right, for putting these on let me show you how we do this stuff. Sit. Come here. Sit. So, I used to teach you up here at the top of the neck. This is where uh the uh Michael Ellis videos tell you to put it because it's the most sensitive. So, they would Michael Ellis videos would tell you to push this fur out of the way and take the contacts and put them up here at the top. The problem I found is when you put it up here, the collars move, especially when they scratch them. What I've started doing is I put it lower here, right here at the hardest part for Grizz. You see how it You and I had this conversation about her neck going two different directions? That's right where we do it. Grizz, Grizz, Grizz. Sit. Sit. I know, it's a lot to ask without a reward, huh? So, I'll take it and I'll move some fur out of the way and it and I just want to make sure I get contact information. Contact with the skin. Once it's there, I use one hand and hold it. The other hand comes over here onto the other side here. And we start to put this in one Can you see it over here? One-handed I stick this through. Once it's a little tight, I can let go with my right hand. Over here, this will stay in place. And I'll take this and I'll put it my all four fingers behind here. The reason I put all four fingers behind behind her neck is so I can pull this as tight as I can go. The It's as I go as tight as I can go, but my four fingers are back here. So, I could almost make it to this one, but I couldn't quite. So, my four fingers are here and that's how I get it so that it's the same tightness every time. So, now when she goes to scratch, this doesn't move and it is the same tension every single time. And so, the the stimulation effect works the exact same every single time. And that's the important part. Denali. Come here, girl. Denali. Come here. Come here. Come here. I got I'll give you a treat. Come here. Sit. Come here Denali. Sit. So, Denali's actually a lot easier to put on because where I put her collar, she does her fur goes the same direction. So, I can just start to fold this out of the way. I get a connection point here. And a point here. Hold it. My other hand just comes back here and I just slip it down. Put this in a loop because if you don't loop this one, it is too long and she will step on it. And when she steps on it, it's uncomfortable and it make it moves this collar around. So, that's all we have to do. The light, I can show you real quick while we have it on her. Denali, heel. You can see you cannot this light will not help you. You might be able to help might help you find her, but it will not help you see in the dark. So, when we want to see in the dark, we loosen this bad puppy up. I drop it down here and now when she walks with me, she's a walking flashlight. That's how we do the collars. To turn them off, I go here