What’s the earliest age I can use an electric collar on my dog?

Answer my question or don’t answer it at all please.
He is a German Shepherd from a show line.
Tom and greekman, great answers! Thanks
Thanks for the article Greekman, I have read it before and just read it again and found it VERY informative and thorough.

I hate to inform the bunny huggers of this, but if a persons intention is to abuse their dog they have no need of spending $500 bucks for an electric collar. They can be as abusive as they care to be without spending a dime.
The electric collar is absolutely nothing other than a very long leash, and is used like any other leash.
I don’t like to start using the collar much before 6-7 months because chances are the dog simply won’t have the cognitive development to understand.
Now understand that my pups have had the collar on their neck every time we train before 6-7 months, it just isn’t turned on. This helps the dog retain a proper training attitude, and not become collar wise. The first time I use the collar is “proofing” recall which is followed by the rest of collar conditioning.
Also understand that the reaction you want from the dog needs to identically match the reaction you get when you pop it’s normal leash. No more, no less, you want both forms of correction to mean exactly the same thing to the dog.

Doesn’t the poor fella look abused with that awful thing around his neck.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2270/2052290565_dc7ab81987.jpg?v=0

Edit:
Using “GO” as a release command is a bad idea. The word sounds to much like “NO”, somewhere down the line you will get refusals.
In compitition most all of us use the dogs call name as it’s release command. That way we only release the one dog, instead of all of them which is what would happen if we all used the same word.

Kid zapped with electric dog collar

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