Thursday, May 10, 2007
How to create a phobia
Remember that Thanksgiving post? Yeah, that one.
I never told the whole story about the Brit and the invisible dog fence. Here goes...
We have an invisible dog fence. It's quite humane and the dogs trained to it immediately. We also have an extension unit positioned so that the kitchen (very small and dangerous to have anyone under foot) is off limits. Our Thanksgiving guests were very curious about it and we told them the whole story of how we came to own it. They kept asking what it felt like. Jumpback to when we got it, the installer encouraged us to feel the 'correction' (shock) so we knew what it felt like. I explained to our guests that I had done it a couple of times to make sure I wasn't subjecting my dogs to anything torturous. It feels like a static shock. Just like when you have on blanket sleeper pajamas and shuffle your feet across a carpet and touch a door handle. The sensation and duration is exactly the same. (FYI the collar beeps before it corrects so the dog has a chance to get out of the NO zone, you train the dog to react to the beep)
Well a few of our guests had been drinking and really really wanted to know what if felt like so I had them hold the collar in their hand (not clip it to their neck) and had them walk toward the kitchen. Beep beep, *correction*, expletive, they dropped the collar and had a giggle.
Then the Brit decides he would like to try it. He picks up the collar, walks toward the kitchen...Beep beep, *correction*, expletive. He freaked out or more accurately he flashed back. He proceeds to tell us how much it reminded him of when he was electrocuted. He was freakin' electrocuted and still tried this for GOD know why. Apparently he was working in his mum's garden when he hit the electrical supply to the house. It was bad enough that he spent the night in the hospital. Here is to drunks trying to prove...well I don't know why he did it but here is to people getting shocked when they are piss-drunk.
I never told the whole story about the Brit and the invisible dog fence. Here goes...
We have an invisible dog fence. It's quite humane and the dogs trained to it immediately. We also have an extension unit positioned so that the kitchen (very small and dangerous to have anyone under foot) is off limits. Our Thanksgiving guests were very curious about it and we told them the whole story of how we came to own it. They kept asking what it felt like. Jumpback to when we got it, the installer encouraged us to feel the 'correction' (shock) so we knew what it felt like. I explained to our guests that I had done it a couple of times to make sure I wasn't subjecting my dogs to anything torturous. It feels like a static shock. Just like when you have on blanket sleeper pajamas and shuffle your feet across a carpet and touch a door handle. The sensation and duration is exactly the same. (FYI the collar beeps before it corrects so the dog has a chance to get out of the NO zone, you train the dog to react to the beep)
Well a few of our guests had been drinking and really really wanted to know what if felt like so I had them hold the collar in their hand (not clip it to their neck) and had them walk toward the kitchen. Beep beep, *correction*, expletive, they dropped the collar and had a giggle.
Then the Brit decides he would like to try it. He picks up the collar, walks toward the kitchen...Beep beep, *correction*, expletive. He freaked out or more accurately he flashed back. He proceeds to tell us how much it reminded him of when he was electrocuted. He was freakin' electrocuted and still tried this for GOD know why. Apparently he was working in his mum's garden when he hit the electrical supply to the house. It was bad enough that he spent the night in the hospital. Here is to drunks trying to prove...well I don't know why he did it but here is to people getting shocked when they are piss-drunk.
// posted by Bo @ 4:55 PM 
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