Shepherding 101: What is Shepherding?

Shepherding 101: A Guide to Keeping Your Dog Safe, Happy, and Free

Welcome to Shepherding 101, your comprehensive resource for ensuring the safety, happiness, and freedom of your beloved canine companion. In this guide, we'll explore how SkyShepherd, the ultimate GPS dog fence collar, empowers you to let your dog roam within safe boundaries.

Understanding SkyShepherd's Innovative Features:

At the core of SkyShepherd's design are patented features that prioritize your dog's comfort, safety, and well-being:

1. Patented Contact Grid: Our unique contact grid replaces traditional prongs, providing a more comfortable experience for your dog. This innovative design reduces the risk of hot spots and necrosis, ensuring that your dog's skin remains healthy and irritation-free.

2. Shepherding Technology: SkyShepherd’s approach to guiding your dog is called Shepherding. It uses real-time feedback. This means that feedback starts at the lowest level and then changes, dynamically and automatically, in the moment, to meet your dog at its level of excitement. It sounds a bit complicated, but it's quite simple, and it's what professional trainers do, using the least effective feedback possible to train and guide dogs. With our patented Extended Shepherding feature, SkyShepherd leverages this real-time feedback from alert zones to guide your dog back to the safe zone of its boundary, should it ever break through. This proactive approach helps prevent your dog from straying too far and ensures their safety at all times.

3. Positive Reinforcement Training: Unlike other systems that may claim to use positive reinforcement, SkyShepherd truly prioritizes positive reinforcement as the foundation of the Shepherding approach. From the moment you begin using SkyShepherd, positive reinforcement is integrated into every aspect of your dog's training, fostering a trusting and cooperative relationship between you and your furry friend.

4. Generous Boundary Points: SkyShepherd offers more generous boundary points compared to competitors, allowing you to create custom boundaries tailored to your specific needs. Unlike other systems that impose limitations on the number of boundaries and boundary points, SkyShepherd gives you the flexibility to define boundaries as needed for your unique situation.

5. Connectivity Beyond Cellular Networks: SkyShepherd goes beyond traditional GPS dog collars by offering connectivity outside of cellular networks. Our innovative "Yard Monitoring" gateway system allows for communication and location updates from the collar up to a half-mile away, even in areas with limited cellular coverage. This ensures that you can stay connected with your dog no matter where your adventures take you.

Understanding SkyShepherd's Real-Time Feedback

SkyShepherd employs, dynamic, real-time feedback to guide your dog with precision and care. Unlike traditional methods, SkyShepherd dynamically adjusts feedback to match your dog's level of excitement and its response to previous feedback. SkyShepherd also bolsters good behavior with positive reinforcement. This approach - applying the right amount of feedback at the right time, including positive reinforcement - is what we call, “Shepherding.”

Unlocking the Power of Shepherding Technology

Shepherding encompasses everything that SkyShepherd is and does. It starts with the training approach, and after training, it covers everything SkyShepherd does to guide your dog, both in and around the boundary, and even outside the boundary. Our patented approach guides your dog to stay in, and if they should ever leave, it is even smart enough to guide them back in bounds. When they get back in, SkyShepherd rewards them through positive reinforcement in the Safe Tone.