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@krueman That sounds like an overly complicated way to get to place, but if you’ve got a plan stick with it. Personally I would avoid a remote feeder as I want to make sure the dog knows all good things come from me. Does he eat 2 cups/meal or just /day? Risk of bloat really comes from the...

@krueman A few things that may help based on your post: - does he have a place command? It sounds like he has trouble settling, so training and building a strong place command should really help with this. You can tether him at first if needed, but this will help train him to settle and you can...

@allmighty1 I think you’re putting entirely too much weight into a decision that amounts to 1/8”… Bigger is less likely to slip through your hands and it’s unlikely your golden will notice the difference (unless it’s still smol).

@epassenglish Poisoning commands and spurious correlations are both super simple. You poison a command when you give the command and follow it by something unpleasant. So if you said sit, then applied considerable pressure, the dog will start to associate the command sit with the unpleasant...

@epassenglish An e-collar is pressure, just like a leash. Once you understand this, and the dog understands this, it becomes quite intuitive how to use the e-collar in all your work. Would you use leash pressure in the situation? Then you can use the e-collar.

@kpd I’ve found this to be very useful to proof commands and is oddly quite intuitive for the dog. One thing to remember is that this is done when the dog is under command, so you have told them to do something and they should already understand that they aren’t supposed to stop until you...