What To Take Into Account When Buying A Bark Collar
Do all these hours of anti bark training that you have spent with your dog seem to be fruitless? Sometimes even the most experienced dog owners have to face the fact that their dogs aren’t responding to oral training and need a bark collar. Yes, a bark collar may not be the most dog friendly training gadget on the planet but it serves its purpose. Because each dog is different and reacts differently, it pays to spend some time evaluating the different types of bark collars there are. In order to give you a head start, we present you here some choices that people prefer when they buy a bark collar. The Ultrasound Bark Collar This collar is one of the most popular collars that are available for the general public. Like a gadget from a James Bond movie, this bark collar emits a very high pitched sound when it detects excessive barking. The sound is meant to distract the attention of the dog and stop it from barking. The sound is perfectly audible by dogs, but completely undetectable by humans, so don’t think that it doesn’t work just because you can’t hear it. Will the sound have negative affect your dog’s hearing? Studies show that high pitched sound used in sonic collars are safe so you need not worry about damaging your dog’s ears. Anyway, the sound only lasts as long as the dog keeps barking, and if the sound makes the barking stop, therefore it can’t last long. The Spraying Collar The spray collar is designed to squirt out citronella spray unto the dog’s snout every time the dog barks. Citronella is used because dogs are known to dislike it a lot. With time, the dog will figure out the relationship between the citronella spray and his own barking, reacting accordingly. Now, the downside of this type of collar is that smell of the citronella often lingers on the snout of your dog for several minutes or even hours in some cases. Some dogs can get stress or anxiety if they can’t get rid of the smell. If your dog’s sense of smell is specially suceptible to citronella, then you’d better get a different type of bark collar. Electrical Shock Collar Putting a shock collar on your dog’s neck may be an effective way to stop your dog from barking incessantly but this practice may have some negative effect on your dog. Note that the shock collar sends electric pulses to your dog’s muscles whenever it barks. The electric shock is painless to dogs, but some people think it can be cruel.
