Scots and Canadians have the chance to support controls on electronic collars.
Electronic collars for dogs and cats are already banned in many jurisdictions (including Austria, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Wales, Quebec, and parts of Australia). Now, people in Scotland and Canada have the chance to let their governments know how they feel. Please support these campaigns to ban shock collars by taking part and sharing with friends and family.
The Scottish Government consultation, “potential controls or prohibition of electronic training aids in Scotland”, is open for comment until 29th January 2016. The website says, “This consultation seeks views on whether some or all electronic training aids should be subject to tighter controls in Scotland or whether they should be banned outright. It also seeks evidence to support these views.”
Useful resources:
Read Eileen Anderson’s analysis of a shock collar training session. ("We counted 74 times when Sonny was being shocked in the course of 8 1/2 minutes of training. However, some of these may have been part of longer continuous shocks...").
Read the British Small Animal Veterinary Association statement on aversive training methods. “Shocks and other aversive stimuli received during training may not only be acutely stressful, painful and frightening for the animals, but may also produce long term adverse effects on behavioural and emotional responses.”
For additional research resources on dog training methods, click the Jack Russell photo in the menu on the right.
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