Please do not use a shock collar on a yorkie. Here is a copy of a post on another thread where I worked out the joules for a shock collar that a poster was thinking of buying for his yorkie (e collar):
I worked in cardiology. We use electricity quite a bit in treatment. I went calculating Joules (which is a measurement of electricity). The most common tazer works on 0.3 Joules while this collar works on 0.11 Joules (calculated by using the 7v 16mA battery shown to go into the unit). Which translates into the e collar is emitting almost 40% of the energy used by a tazer to bring down a 200+ lb person on a 5 lb yorkie (which is 2.5% body mass of a person).
This is still a significant amount of Joule.
Now your yorkie would be 11.5 lb, but that still would be just over 5% body mass of a 200 lb man.
You might be interested in other suggestions on the thread and not even be considering a shock collar, but I saw someone advocating it on the thread so I thought you should be equipped w the scientific information of what kind of shock these collars emit. Just a side note, if the dog is sweaty, the conduction of electricity would most probably increase.
I would definitely try the suggestion of the "special treat" that she really only gets when you are studying or having down time. |