Skip to main content

Electronic Training Aids

Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN HL7695, tabled on 9 May 2018

To ask Her Majesty's Government what specific research they have commissioned into the use of electronic collars in containment systems for (1) cats, and (2) dogs.

Answered on

22 May 2018

The Government has not commissioned any specific research into the use of electronic training collars for containment systems. However, Defra did fund research into the use of remote controlled electronic training collars. We are carefully considering all the responses and evidence received during the consultation and will respond in due course.