At some time, you will get to the point where you feel your dog no longer needs to wear the e-collar because it never makes a mistake. Congratulations on a job well done!
However, your dog should always wear the e-collar when in environments that contain distractions. Would you drive across the country without auto liability insurance? You should now think of the e-collar as your insurance policy in case you and your dog get into a wreck. It gives your dog a way out of trouble in an orderly fashion that it understands even when its instincts are telling it to do something else. What does it hurt for your dog to wear the e-collar when you go to the park, grandma comes for a visit, it is time to go to the vet or a million other unknown distractions? You taught that the e-collar means the two of you are getting ready to do something fun, so keep the e-collar on.
I'm not so sure I agree with this but am pretty sure I do. Tried the off-on way and my dog has figured out real quick that on is on. Without the collar he's 99% good but that damned 1% pisses me off.
The wife is against this "leave it on" stuff and there's gonna be a power struggle when I start leaving my dog's collar on for 10 hours a day.
It was the same story with her ideas on leaving food out constantly. Once we tried my "once-a-day" feeding method we got the dogs weight problem under control.
So who agrees with the "leave it on" philosophy and why. Who disagrees and why?
It's ok to disagree but I'd like to see the why's part.