My one-year-old female Border Collie wanted to herd/chase the horses. Was trying a shock collar for a short time, but she died suddenly one day we left home for a few hours shopping. So my experience with the collar very limited.
Our two-year old female Doberman can't resist chasing cats, chickens, kids. On leash, under quiet conditions, she will stop walking automatically as soon as I stop walking without any command at all. She will also stop with the verbal command "Stop" under the same conditions.
However, in the presence of a cat or any moving thing (child, animal, ball) she has to run after it and completely ignores any of my vocal commands. After training on leash with the average common-place leather collar for six months now, it appears she might just be starting to resist darting after things. Maybe after a couple of more years, or, at this rate, maybe never will she behave calmly.
I will keep trying my slow, patient way/method as a kind of experiment to find out if it is even possible to calm her down completely to the point of trusting her off leash! For some reason, I just don't want to resort to the shock collar with this animal.
choke collar, no question. And the sooner you train her, the better. You are wasting your time attempting to train her with a regular collar on, in fact a regular can often stimulate prey drive.
If you were trying to purposely get a dog wound up, and "launch" it after something, think about how you would do that, that's what you are doing by attempting correction with a regular collar