It's taken a year to figure out what you meant by this but you are 100% right and it's what I had been doing, trying to control/confront his energy. And having said that in answer to the following question nope things went slowly down hill again as I struggled to channel his energies, the e-collar has probably done a lot of bad and I stopped using it because it is pointless in our situation. I need to build up his enthusiasm to the point of bursting and then channel it rather than mute it which is exactly what an electric shock (no matter how small) baddly timed is going to do.
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