One misconception about placing Electric Dog Collars on dogs is this: the aim is to teach through pain. Dogs can bark excessively or keep tearing up other people’s gardens – the aim of the pain is to disrupt such behavior. The more times the dog is annoyed at the interruption, the more chances it will remember when it receives such interruptions.

The dog that receives the shock is not hurt in any serious manner, nor his motor functions reduced in any capacity. The level of shock the dog under training receives is no more painful than static electricity from a carpet. Many responsible dog owners already institute this type of obedience regimen.

Shock collars can be of two types. With one type, the combination of your dog’s bark and its vibration combine to activate the stimulus. This is to ensure that the device can discriminate between your dog’s bark and any other loud sound. The other kind is triggered remotely, via radio signals from a transmitter. The remote type can be used to “punish” many types of behaviour, unlike the bark-activated one, which is limited to deterring barking.

These bad behavior can be anywhere from chewing up on neighbor’s plants, biting and stealing small items the dog sees, and even chasing vehicles. The quick succession between bad behavior and unpleasant stimuli, experienced by the dog, pays off over time. Remote shock collars can and has been used for many kind of obedience regimen. Agility training, pet containment, and hunting are some of these regimen.

The principle of instituting an irritant to disrupt your dog’s behavior applies to shock collars as well as to other types of irritants. The types are sprays, ultrasonics, and vibration.

The instantaneous response your dog gets from the remote shock collar is effective enough to establish an experiential link between the deterrent and the type of behavior you don’t want your dog to keep carrying out. After some sessions with Electric Dog Collars, your dog will respond and curb the actions you disapprove of.

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