New dog owners are sometimes unprepared to deal with common problems of newly adopted or bought dogs, such as excessive barking or barking at the wrong time. The most common solution is a bark shock collar but new owners often take a dislike to that word ‘shock’.
First of all, owners have to understand that the concept of “punishment” is different to dogs than it is to humans. Unless you try to ‘correct’ or ‘punish’ your dog at the very time it is miss-behaving, it will not know why you are acting the way you are. Also, the sense of “punishment” is different to dogs than it is to humans, which is also a concept that new owners of dogs have trouble understanding. For example, scolding the dog or shouting at it for several minutes might make the dog miss the link between the bad behavior and the scolding.
Instead, Use a Bark Collar!
A dog bark shock collar delivers a calculated static discharge when barking is occurring. The shock is instantaneous and since it happens when the dog barks, the dog is much more likely to make a better connection betweeen bad behavior and punishment. Most dogs will soon learn that barking will be punished and will control their impulse. The dog’s natural resistance and thicker skin prevents it from feeling pain; in fact, it’s the confusion caused by the static shock that makes it stop barking while it wonders what is happening.
Trainers agree that shock collars aren’t cruel, but helpful when trying to teach your dog to behave; and with time, the dog learns to avoid the shock completely.
Since the objective is to stop only inconvenient barking, a dog bark shock collar shouldn’t be used more than 30 minutes a day, and only in situations where barking is inconvenient. Dogs are very smart animals and no more want to be punished than any other animal or person. By using the bark shock collar according to the instructions that always comes with it, you will soon be able to teach your dog when not to bark while still allowing it to bark at other times.
A bark shock collar has a reputation of being cruel. Nevertheless, the shock is rather harmless and panlessl and it only confuses the dog a little. On the other hand, using adog bark shock collar will help you train your dog and avoid invonvenient barking.
