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The most comfy bungee collar with the most reliable contact!

06/12/2024

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09/11/2024

Had a lovely message from the owner of this gloriously shiny boy in his Twisty Spydog, worn here with a Mini Educator receiver (RX090)
- apparently he keeps his mum and dad on their toes - good boy Barra 🥰 - after all, what self respecting Dobe doesn’t? 😆🤣

26/10/2024

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04/08/2024

This athletic 9kg cutie is Margot, whose 26cm neck meant she needed the ‘extra-dinky dog’ Twisty Spydog adaptation for her Micro Educator, and mum Charlotte loves it 👌🏼

25/07/2024

Gotta love this pair!! Tig and Hank in their Dogtra Arcs 😍

Their owner messaged me when he’d started using their new camo Twisty Spydog collars with his thoughts…

“High quality, discrete, stylish and at the same time offering amazing improvement in fit which is great for the dogs but also provides improved & consistent contact.
Super easy to remove & refit whilst maintaining optimum size & tension.
Happy dog & happy handler!”

20/06/2024

This VERY handsome lad is Odin - his owner wanted to know whether the Twisty Spydog collar can accommodate a ‘double block’ setup (two receivers on one collar, sometimes called ‘double brick’) and the answer is yes, we can do that on request.
Here he is, wearing his new collar and looking mighty fine with it. It’s his birthday today too 🥰

07/06/2024

Puddles, showing us all, as only a spaniel can (😆🥰) how smart her flat ID tag looks on her Twisty Spydog collar!

07/06/2024

Xena, showing off (to anyone with binoculars or X ray vision 😉) her Mini Educator on its new black Twisty Spydog bungee. First one to spot it …

19/05/2024

Handsome Cooper! 🥰
His owner loves how it doesn’t move around, which is great to hear, as it’s designed to stay put 👍

Is your Twisty Spydog collar staying put as it should, or is it moving?

Remember, if it moves with use, it needs tightening up. Some dogs’ neck measurement actually becomes physically narrower with exercise as the muscles warm up (muscles lengthen and contract with movement) so if it needs snugging up, don’t be afraid to start on the side of ‘almost too snug’ and check it after half an hour of exercise and you will find it fits perfectly. One of my females loses a solid 3/4” on a tape measure when she’s out of breath!! Muscles lengthen and contract which is why the elastic holds such a great fit👌🏼It can’t physically loosen but if you haven’t followed the part of the video that asks you to TRY and move it with one then two hands, and you’ve been anxious to make sure it’s not too tight, you may see it slide around the neck. When you start using it tighter, you’ll see for yourself that your dog can indeed breathe very comfortably even when it’s tight, so if you find that happening, just gently move loose skin out from either side of it so it’s snugged against your dog’s body rather than atop loose skin and make sure you adjust the fit by undoing the whole top layer of webbing and starting afresh so that the triglides are in the perfect spot, as tightening it with the upper wrap in place can create that loop, that ‘bend’ in the ‘hinge’ and it’ll cause problems.

15/05/2024

Tamaskan Bagheera, busy being gorgeous. This is the antique bronze - I love how it looks with Bagheera’s coat.

25/04/2024

Bonnie - appropriately named 💛

18/04/2024

Contact issues with furry floofers, fuzzy fluffs, shaggy sheepdogs, hairy hounds and wispy woofers? Baggy rolls of neck skin or very skinny necks giving you headaches?

Once you have a Twisty Spydog bungee collar, you should always start with the shortest possible contact points combined with proper placement on a muscle (rather than a hollow area on your dog’s neck) to give you the most reliable and comfortable contact, rather than using longer than 5/8” tips or even winged tips (🫣) to achieve contact.

The Twisty Spydog collar has been designed to work best in conjunction with proper positioning and short to medium tips. You should ONLY move to tips longer than 5/8” if your dog has such a lot of loose skin that you’re genuinely unable to reach through it all to a muscle with tips any shorter and even THAT issue can be overcome by tugging out any loose skin at the fitting stage to ensure the tips are only having to push through a SINGLE LAYER of skin to make contact with the large MUSCLE below it - because contrary to urban myth, coat length is almost irrelevant.

The photos below illustrate proper versus improper placement; anywhere in the red area would mean that as the dog turns its head, tendons and the hollow areas they create as the dog moves can lead to poor contact whereas the muscle remains firm in the green area no matter how the dog moves.

So how do you cope with very thick or long fur?

There’s a knack to it.
Grooming out loose hair always helps and is very often overlooked!! So, assuming Fluffy isn’t in need of a bath and a good brush with a slicker to remove a solid mat of grease, grime and loose hair that’s hindering contact, (let’s face it, they’re mucky buggers!), you can follow these steps:

Part the fur until a line of skin is visible, just as if you were parting human hair, (blowing gently works on light, soft fur) then nestle the receiver down with the tips touching that line of skin. Then when the collar is done up, you ‘sweep’ your finger under the receiver and scoop out any clumps of remaining fur, so that when you let go, rather than skidding about on the surface of the dog’s coat with just the tips pushing through it, the whole receiver is nestled down close to the skin with the fur acting like a ‘wall’ around it. This overcomes slippery, long and very soft, thick or fuzzy fur issues. It also ‘loses’ the side walls of the receiver in amongst the fur.

Hope this is helpful ☺️

07/04/2024

That’s what we like to hear!

13/03/2024

Adorable Sasha (who gives great kisses and I’ve seen the proof 😘) in her black Twisty Spydog bungee collar.

Sasha’s owner is getting fantastic contact with standard short tips on her Dogtra Arc. Wings? Nah - don’t need ‘em mate!

19/02/2024

Kali, looking out thoughtfully over the landscape. Perhaps she’s just pondering how great her mum is, getting her a Twisty Spydog bungee collar 😆 Mum’s words were ‘I am really happy with the collar, fits great.’
That’s what we like to hear ☺️

16/02/2024

Handsome Axel - looking fly in his rich green Twisty Spydog 😍

16/02/2024

CALLING ALL DOGTRA ARC USERS 🐾

I’ve made a fitting video specifically for Arc users. The original video is still important to watch first but this one explains what to do about those pesky movable bars! It’s long but it’s really important you understand what I mean by ‘horizontal’ and WHY it matters.

https://youtu.be/vYutiXQOZ6M?si=Uf1uLXhoOwa4bDqd

13/02/2024

Val, wearing (but you wouldn’t know!!) her Twisty Spydog collar 🐾

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Contact issues with furry floofers, fuzzy fluffs, shaggy sheepdogs, hairy hounds and wispy woofers? Baggy rolls of neck skin or very skinny necks giving you headaches? Once you have a Twisty Spydog bungee collar, you should always start with the shortest possible contact points combined with proper placement on a muscle (rather than a hollow area on your dog’s neck) to give you the most reliable and comfortable contact, rather than using longer than 5/8” tips or even winged tips (🫣) to achieve contact. The Twisty Spydog collar has been designed to work best in conjunction with proper positioning and short to medium tips. You should ONLY move to tips longer than 5/8” if your dog has such a lot of loose skin that you’re genuinely unable to reach through it all to a muscle with tips any shorter and even THAT issue can be overcome by tugging out any loose skin at the fitting stage to ensure the tips are only having to push through a SINGLE LAYER of skin to make contact with the large MUSCLE below it - because contrary to urban myth, coat length is almost irrelevant. The photos below illustrate proper versus improper placement; anywhere in the red area would mean that as the dog turns its head, tendons and the hollow areas they create as the dog moves can lead to poor contact whereas the muscle remains firm in the green area no matter how the dog moves. So how do you cope with very thick or long fur? There’s a knack to it. Grooming out loose hair always helps and is very often overlooked!! So, assuming Fluffy isn’t in need of a bath and a good brush with a slicker to remove a solid mat of grease, grime and loose hair that’s hindering contact, (let’s face it, they’re mucky buggers!), you can follow these steps: Part the fur until a line of skin is visible, just as if you were parting human hair, (blowing gently works on light, soft fur) then nestle the receiver down with the tips touching that line of skin. Then when the collar is done up,

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