TGD’s 4 Phases Of E-Collar Training: From Escape To Avoidance… And The In Between. Here’s a quick visual and aural demo I share with all our shadow students. While there’s countless ways to train dogs with e-collar, this is our blueprint, and one we’ve found to be not only clear and fair, but also extremely effective. Many teach “escape” training, which simply means the dog stops the stim/pressure by completing the desired behavior. They then often move to “avoidance” training (using corrections