Oct 16, 2026 · 43 min · 10 segments
Josh Judge has trained dogs for everyday pet owners, law enforcement, detection work, and hunting. He says there's one lesson that keeps showing up: loving your dog isn’t the same thing as leading or…
Uh, I'm seeing a lot of with the e-collars, and there is a lot of misinformation about that, a lot of disinformation as well.
On the way up here, we were talking about it, where a lot of people call the e-collar a shock collar.
And yeah, if I only knew that terminology, like, yeah, I don't wanna shock my dog.
You know, maybe with those cheaper units, they'll have more of a like a static electricity shock to it.
Problem is there's not too many people taught the right way to use it, and with that divide with the positive only crowd and the balance, uh, I feel like people wanna stay in that divided career or path of how they view an object, and so they're unwilling to learn.
Uh, where I, I'm willing to bet if someone were to take the time and go train with an established well-known dog trainer that's good with the e-collar or remote collar, that they're like, "Ah, that makes sense." And it's just a training tool.
It's a great tool to be used for off-leash obedience because when you're dealing with competing motivators, let's say, you know, we're even using the, the drivey pitties.
If I'm on a nature run and a squirrel or a rabbit comes running out, the hotdog's not gonna bring that dog back.
And so you gotta have a tool to, you know, break that chain of thought or that drive and stop it long enough for you to call that dog back.
You know, we always wanna teach without tools or equipment first, and then layer that in later.
So what advice do you w- disagree with maybe in, in your industry? Um, like what, what would others say about, say, the remote collars that, um, that you disagree with?
So when it comes to dog training I feel like some people tend to think that if they love their dog h- hard enough, they'll fix it.
Uh, I'm seeing a lot of with the e-collars, and there is a lot of misinformation about that, a lot of disinformation as well.
On the way up here, we were talking about it, where a lot of people call the e-collar a shock collar.
And yeah, if I only knew that terminology, like, yeah, I don't wanna shock my dog.
You know, maybe with those cheaper units, they'll have more of a like a static electricity shock to it.
Problem is there's not too many people taught the right way to use it, and with that divide with the positive only crowd and the balance, uh, I feel like people wanna stay in that divided career or path of how they view an object, and so they're unwilling to learn.
Uh, where I, I'm willing to bet if someone were to take the time and go train with an established well-known dog trainer that's good with the e-collar or remote collar, that they're like, "Ah, that makes sense." And it's just a training tool.
It's a great tool to be used for off-leash obedience because when you're dealing with competing motivators, let's say, you know, we're even using the, the drivey pitties.
If I'm on a nature run and a squirrel or a rabbit comes running out, the hotdog's not gonna bring that dog back.
And so you gotta have a tool to, you know, break that chain of thought or that drive and stop it long enough for you to call that dog back.
You know, we always wanna teach without tools or equipment first, and then layer that in later.
So what advice do you w- disagree with maybe in, in your industry? Um, like what, what would others say about, say, the remote collars that, um, that you disagree with?
So when it comes to dog training I feel like some people tend to think that if they love their dog h- hard enough, they'll fix it.
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