He is totally trained with the collar on. I can leave it on him 24x7 with its power off, so I don’t need a dummy. I don’t like him having to feel those 2 long metal probes on his neck all the time.
As to your dog management statement - that’s your opinion - and probably applies to most dogs. Collies are unique in that they are naturally home-bodies, and do not wander. We own 2 houses on 15 acres in about 500 acres of heavy forest, and have almost no neighbors, so I personally don’t think your statement applies to us and our collie.
He rarely roams more than 200’ from our house. And then it’s next door to our rental house next door because our tenants love him so much.
you can be offended if you like, but that is the way it is.
Can you prove that your dog was at home last night at 2:00AM?
The 500 acres helps, but a dog can cross 500 acres in probably less than 2 minutes if he is in a hurry.
There are thousands, maybe millions of what I call porch dogs...who lay on the porch all day but when the gang trots by, fall right in and go calf hunting, sheep killing or whatever.
And their owners never know about it.
And never forget, a dog is still a dog and as such needs human supervision.
I am hardly what you would call a dog hater. My first pet dog was in 1938. I was 10 years old. A German Shepard and probably the smartest guard dog I have ever seen.
Visitors were welcome, but he knew who was allowed in the house and who was not.
He lived in the house except when we were outside together.
I have never been without a pet dog since the day he came to live with us.
All house pets stay in the house at night.
My hunting dogs stay in the kennel at night.
And it is my belief that if you don’t think enough of your dog to keep him in the house, you don’t think enough of him to have a dog.
And damn...I am alergic to dog hair.