This is more harmful garbage from virtue signaling politicians. Any time a "commission" like this makes a policy like this about dogs, it almost always goes against the welfare of the dogs. These clowns are the ones to "have the potential to cause harm and that risk is disproportionate to the perceived" benefit The pushback is coming from the working dog community that DOES know how to properly use e-collars and are warning that the banning of these devices will materially harm police and military K9 readiness. (Do you want police and military K9’s to stop being K9’s? Then go forward with this ban.) These politically correct trends to control people are bad for everyone, all of society will be harmed.
There is a role in dog training for e-collars: snake training, wildlife avoidance training, Out training for service breeds, distance control with hunting and police dogs, and a whole lot more.
Should novices get them? No. I would never, and have never, recommend any novice (owner or dog trainer), get one. Neither would I recommend anyone getting a motorcycle without sufficient lessons. Nor would I ban people from having cooking knives, various self-defense weapons, martial arts, gas powered chain saws, gas powered cars, eating chocolate ice cream, soft drinks, supplements, politically incorrect comedy, air conditioners, free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, right to petition the government for redress… or e-collars.
Leave people alone. Especially people who know what they are doing. Stop the Nanny State meddling.
Plan accordingly.
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