Pampered Dog Blog

The chances are you’ll invariably hear that you should never use a Dog Bark Collar on your dog because they’re cruel and inhumane. You may try to ask the persons who say such thing about the dog bark collar if they’ve ever seen such device or maybe if they’ve tried one, in order to feel how it works. Instead of talking out of experience, they’re merely passing on the same misinformation they’ve been told in the past.

Those people speaking like that have no idea of how such a piece of equipment works, as if they knew these dog bark collars are powered only by two small penlight batteries, it would be very easy for them to understand that these collars cannot harm a dog in any way. Dogs don’t understand electricity the way we do, because if they did, they will not be scared by the mild shock and the use of the dog bark collar won’t give any results with them. The collars have been designed to stop the unwanted behavior of the dog, by surprising it, their goal being in no way to cause pain or to hurt the dog. Even if the collar is set to its maximum intensity, there is no pain at all as you can check it yourself.
Your dog will feel something strange and unpleasant.
The opponents of these collars will finally recognize that these devices can’t hurt a dog physically, but they will still say that they can affect the dog in some emotional or mental way. This too couldn’t be any further from the truth because the dog has absolutely no way of knowing that you’re ultimately responsible for the correction he or she receives.

Moreover, dogs are intelligent animals and, though they don’t understand what exactly happens, they will learn in a very short time to avoid correction just by ending their bark. There are different categories of collars, but most of them will firstly warn the dog to stop barking by a buzzing sound before the electrical shock is delivered, and this way the dog will learn to associate the two types of stimuli. For example, if your dog barks once or twice, nothing happens, but if it continues barking, the collar makes a buzzing sound, and if the barking continues, a very mild correction is given. The collars are set to deliver shock of increasing intensity if the dog chooses to ignore them.
Rarely will a dog continue barking long enough to receive the highest level of correction. Your dog is smart enough to stop barking when he hears the buzzing sound.

The Dog Bark Collar is extensively used in Europe, where there are the strictest anti cruelty laws in the world.
No other dog training method is so effective.

While professional dog trainers can on occasions teach a dog to stop barking without the use of a collar, the success rate leaves a lot to be desired, and there’s even less chance of success if you’re not a professional trainer. An angry neighbor can hurt your dog if it never stops barking.
In other cases owners are forced to get rid of the dog, which in turn is upsetting for both the owner and the dog.

Electronic collars allow dog owners who really love their dogs to find a way around this problem, and they do so in a safe and humane way