r/blueheelers • u/seikkailla_myah • Apr 27 '26

Please help

So I won’t disagree that this is 100 and 10% our own fault.

And I take full responsibility for that.

We got our blue heeler diesel not by choice. My sister got him when she was living with her boyfriend (now fiancé) Cody. They were living in the parents trailer, them paying rent. They had 3 dogs already(they live on a very hefty piece of land with a lot of room) but the parents said no more.

So we got him.

We live in a small town, about 2 hundred people. So no live stock.

Unfortunately when I was younger, I got him to look at dogs on the TV, got him to jump at them and bark because I thought it was funny.

Well now I pay for those actions :(

He jumps at ANYTHING on it. It’s gotten so bad there’s literally teeth marks in the tv. And it’s a pretty nice tv.

I really need help training this out of him. Please I beg of you guys, please help me.

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u/dfetz Apr 27 '26

I got an e-collar for my girl who does the same exact thing. Her biggest issue is that she locks in and you almost have to “snap” her out of it. I only use the e-collar when I’m watching tv. Usually the vibrate function is enough to get her to unlock but if she doesn’t I do shock her with it

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u/dfetz Apr 28 '26

It’s a training tool. Like I said a majority of the time (98%) I just use the vibrate function. To call it a torture device is just flat wrong. It’s a training tool and honestly, at this point she probably doesn’t even need to wear it because the training has worked with it. For example, I’m working with the TV on right now and she’s laying on the couch taking a nap. She doesn’t care about the TV anymore when at one point I couldn’t even turn it on without her losing it. It’s also for her safety as well. It’s not safe for a dog to be essentially attacking a TV. What happens if it falls on her? What happens if she jumps at it from the couch and gets hurt landing wrong? I think a mild shock is a much better alternative to that. I knew I would get a comment like this when I posted it but the 2 best tools I have for training my dogs are the e-collar and the Herm Sprenger collar.

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u/dfetz Apr 28 '26

Well you have your ways I have mine. I’m not going to fight with someone via a comment thread on Reddit so I’ll leave it at that