A Quick Guide To Bark Collars For Dogs
Bark collars for dogs are made to stop your dog from nuisance barking, learn a bit more about how they work and if they will stop your dog from barking completely. You might want your dog to warn you if there is any intruder, or other situation that might normally cause your dog to bark. If you want to stop all barking even dog training for dummies would agree that this collar will help you.
There are three types of bark collars for dogs; the tone method, stimulation, and citronella spray collars. Every one of the collars operate with the same principle, when your dog barks a corrective stimulus that disrupts the barking will happen. This is supposed to work by having your dog associate barking with the corrective action and learn to stop.
Citronella Spray Collars; these give off an unpleasant spray of citronella in front of your dogs face each time they bark. There is a small microphone that works with the spray, any barking that is picked up by the microphone will cause the collar to spray, you can adjust this so it does not pick up barking from other dogs and have your dog be sprayed when they did nothing wrong.
Tone Correction Collars; this line of bark collars for dogs works by having a loud sound go off when your dog starts barking. You can purchase a remote control model that you turn on when your dog is barking uncontrollably or there is an automatic collar, that will sound off whenever your dog does.
Stimulations Collars; the stimulations collar gives your dog a small shock whenever they bark, it senses the vocal cord vibrations, and then sends out electrical impulses through your dogs neck.
The reports of a survey conducted by PetSafe states that two thirds of dog owners reported that after using the electronic bark collars for dogs for a period of time their dogs learned to not bark. They were able to take off the collars after an unspecified amount of time and the dogs still did not bark. Only a small amount of owners reported having to retrain their dogs by putting the collar back on.
Bark collars for dogs are not meant to harm your dog, the electrical pulse that is sent out by the stimulation collar is compared to the static received when you walk on a carpet in the cold. This will not hurt, but only give a small shock to your dog. When these are used the right way for the right reasons they will stop your dog from barking. Keep in mind that bark collars for dogs can stop all barking even the bark you may want to hear if there is an intruder at your home.
Jill Krackenburg blogs all about dog training at her website, Dog-Training-For-Dummies.net. Read more about therapy dog training and off leash dog training.
