Whether you’re spending time with your dog indoors or outdoors, you want to lay down some ground rules.
You don’t want your dog barking all night, to the point your neighbors complain about you and your dog; neither do you want your dog chasing anything that moves when in a park.
It is for this reason that there a variety of no-bark collars on the market. Be warned, though, that a collar is not an instant fix – it needs some time to work its effects on your dog’s behavior.
One particularly effective unit is the dog shock collar.
Is it your first time buying shock collars? Here’s a quick guide.
There are three categories of bark collars. These three types are easy to remember – static, sonic, and spray. The shock collar type, also known as the static correction type, releases a harmless low volt currect as the deterrent stimulus. 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 of collar uses a scented liquid as deterrent, since a dog has a well-developed sense of smell. By far the most popular is the static correction type.
Bark or no-bark collars are automatic in their trigger system, which is a sensor that activates the stimulus once the dog barks. In this way, the dog shock collar sends out the static stimulus only when your dog barks.
It’s understandable why some dog owners may feel that static collars are inhumane as a method of behavioral change. 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. The reason why static collars enjoy a popularity among dog owners is due to the results in brings in curbing a dog’s barking.
It is this ability to consistently interrupt dog’s behavior – barking – that they serve as a good deterrent for the said behaviour. After a few days, the dogs wearing the shock collars show a marked reduction in their uncontrolled barking.
However, there’s a limitation to no bark collars – they can only respond to and therefore address on kind of behavior – barking. For a more general obedience training, one that is applied to working dogs and hunting dogs, training collars are needed. Remote collars are also training collars, and of which there’s also the static correction type. The key difference between no bark collars and remote training collars is that the latter is activated by a dog owner-held remote control.
