Feedback Zones

SkyShepherd uses four different feedback zones to guide your dog.

Safe Tone

An audible Safe Tone sounds at regular, preset intervals while your dog is in Safe Zone. This continuous positive reinforcement assures your dog that being in Safe Zone is good.

First Alert

Variable vibration begins in first alert zone, which extends about three to six feet. Vibration intensity increases twice if your dog stays in first alert zone. The light vibration in first alert zone is designed to take your dog’s attention back from a distraction and get it to return to Safe Zone.

Second Alert

Progressive low levels of e-stimulation begin when your dog enters second alert zone and continue through three levels  of impulse as long as your dog keeps moving out of the boundary. When your dog turns back and enters Safe Zone, SkyShepherd immediately signals it with soothing Safe Tone.

Out Zone

When enabled, static stimulus begins immediately when your dog enters out zone. Out zone lies just outside of second alert zone and consists of everything outside your boundary. When enabled, SkyShepherd schedules a maximum of three static stimulations of the same intensity if your dog strays from the boundary. As soon as your dog turns back and reenters Safe Zone, SkyShepherd immediately signals your dog with a soothing Safe Tone.

Shepherding Concept

You just learned about the zones that make up SkyShepherd's guidance. In fact, they all work together as part of SkyShepherd's patented guidance method, called Shepherding, that automatically and dynamically guides your dog in each moment with the feedback type and level that is called for, based on your dog's level of excitement and movement in and about the boundary, especially at the boundary's edges, in the alert zones. It sounds a bit complicated, but it's quite simple, and it's what professional trainers do, using the lowest effective feedback possible to train and guide dogs. Here's a video that illustrates Shepherding visually. Knowing what you now know about the different zones, hopefully this video will help you understand how they work together as part of Shepherding. 

Extended Shepherding

You heard a bit about this in the video at the top, but SkyShepherd also comes with a user-selectable Extended Shepherding function. If your dog leaves its boundary in hot pursuit, with its adrenaline running high, SkyShepherd will enter Extended Shepherding mode. Extended Shepherding mode continues to guide your dog dynamically, based on its movement away from or back toward the Safe Zone. Once your dog's adrenaline drops, this guides it to reverse its course and head back into the Safe Zone. The beauty is that your dog is never without guidance, even outside its boundary, and it never has to worry about getting corrected as it crosses back over into Safe Zone.