If you had just moved to a new house and your dog is not yet settled in, you could be in for a lot of barking. That’s a common problem many dog owners have to deal with, particularly when their dogs tend to bark at every small thing – the boy on a passing bike that throws your morning paper at your door, the mail delivery truck pulling close to your house, birds chirping on a tree outside your window, at the sudden movements in your neighbor’s bushes, at every small thing. Getting a Citronella dog collars for you dog can stop its incessant barking.
One of the effective bark collars on the market is the Citronella spray collar. For a dog with a habit of barking at every little thing, you need a stimulus that disrupts his bad barking behavior. A deterrent can come in the form of a Citronella spray – its scent will overwhelm a dog’s sensitive nose for an instant.
One type of bark collar, the ultrasonic variety, sends out a high pitched tone to correct dog’s barking; but some dogs have been reported to get accustomed to the sound enough to ignore it. The only other dog bark collar that’s reported to be as effective as Citronella collars is the static correction variety, which sends out a low volt shock instead of either a sound or a spray.
Like most bark collars, Citronella collars are battery-powered and should be put on, snugly, on your dog’s neck. Most brands offer a range of models for various dog sizes. Many websites have a list of brands and models they recommend to match your dog’s breed and weight or size. One way to see if you have the right collar size for your dog is to put the collar on your dog’s neck and slip two to three fingers inside the collar. You neither want to choke your dog with a small collar nor get a collar that’s slides around its neck. The bark collar’s device should be touching your dog’s throat when worn properly; it should not be sliding around loosely.
Don’t worry about the contents of the Citronella spray – it’s harmless. When worn properly, the spray collar should be pointing towards your dog’s snout, so that the sprayed liquid will be dispersed around your dog’s nose. Your dog’s barking triggers the release of the spray, which overwhelms the dog’s sense of smell, and stops his barking there and then. In time your dog will learn that an unpleasant experience follows his every bark.
