Whether you’re spending time with your dog indoors or outdoors, you want to lay down some ground rules.
So you have a list, drawn, from experience, about what counts as acceptable and unacceptable behavior from your dog. It is for this reason that there a variety of no-bark collars on the market. Getting your dog used to wearing the collar is to be a project between pet and owner.
There is one particularly recommended unit available – dog shock collar.

A Brief Shopping Guide for Shock Collars

Now, there are thee main types of bark collars. There’s the static correction type, the sonic type, and the spray type. The shock collar, known also to many as the static correction collar, makes use of a low volt electric shock to startle the dog. The sonic type uses a high-pitched tone that is annoying to dogs – a sound only dogs can hear, since it’s beyond the range of normal human hearing. The spray type releases a harmless, scented chemical that annoys dogs, which have a sophisticated sense of smell. The most popular right now is the static or shock collar.

Bark or no-bark collars are also of the automatic type, meaning they trigger based on the sound or vibration they receive from the dog. This is how the dog shock collar triggers when your dog engages in that unruly behavior – barking.

Some dog owners have voiced out a concern – shock collars may be inhumane to dogs. The static shock one can get from carpets, one needs to keep in mind, is of the same intensity as that of the shock in static collars. There’s a reason why static collars enjoy good reviews from dog owners – they bring good results in less time.

That’s because the shock received is a good way to interrupt and therefore deter barking, which is exactly what owners expect. After a few days, the dogs wearing the shock collars show a marked reduction in their uncontrolled barking.

One may have to keep in mind, also, that no bark collars are designed only to correct one type of behavior, and that is barking. Training collars are what’s recommended when one needs a more genera obedience training regimen, which is what’s applied to hunting and working dogs. In this category, remote collars are subsumed. There are also remote shock collars. The difference is that the static correction is activated via a remote control manually activated by the owner, as opposed to an automatic sensor on the bark collar.

Tagged with: •

Filed under: Farnam

Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!