I have a yappy dog, Beckham. He is half Toy Poodle and half Shiz-tsu and he loves to sit in the living room waiting to hear voices or traffic and bark. You have to love him, he is warning his family of approaching danger (in his mind) and barks to let us know we may be in peril. When he really gets going, Sofie, the Maltese, chimes in, but she rarely instigates the noise.
I have tried various training methods, and while they have been effective for a period of time for the traffic noise and voices on the street, all training is permanently lost when someone rings the bell or knocks on the door. He reverts to his old habits.
I am seriously considering a shock collar. In researching them, my first concern was pain. Those who sell the collar tell me it doesn't hurt. Right. Further research done with those who have no profit bias indicate that it is short and quick and more surprising than anything else. One researcher compared it to a mild static shock that surprises more than hurts. I am still weighing the factors, and appreciate any input from my readers, who actually don't exist at this point in my young blogging career. But I would like input.
I have a dog who barks incessantly. We love her except for her barking. We have tried 3 different collars to stop or decrease the barking. Two were shock collars, which made no difference. Granted it could be because of her hair, which is sometimes out of control, but regardless, they did not work. So then we tried the citronella collar. It worked really well for a while and I recommend them highly. Unfortunately for us, our pup is persistent and just got accustomed to being sprayed in the face. So, while we don't use it anymore the citronella collar is the only one that worked for us!
ReplyDeleteHello,I had tried using this shock dog collar on my Bruno "Labrador" but he was not at all happy with it.I think it really hurts the dog. its better to use normal choke collar (the one without the spikes )
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