Dog Shock Collar – Teach Your Dog Right and Wrong Behavior
September 3rd, 2010Like any dog owner, you want your dog behaved whether inside your home or outside it.
So it’s most likely you already know, the hard way, how much trouble an undisciplined dog can bring – from the excessive barking to the biting things and chasing people.
It is for this reason that there a variety of no-bark collars on the market. Be warned, though, that a collar is not an instant fix – it needs some time to work its effects on your dog’s behavior.
One particularly effective unit is the dog shock collar.
Some Info for Shoppers
Bark collars belong to three categories. There’s the static correction type, the sonic type, and the spray type. A dog shock collar is the static correction type, as it sends out a low volt shock as the corrective stimulus. The sonic collar releases a tone that’s outside of human hearing range – only dogs can hear them, and be annoyed by them. The spray type squirts out a liquid, harmless to the dog but just as annoying. The shock or static correction collar remains, by far, the most popular.
Bark or no-bark collars are automatic in their trigger system, which is a sensor that activates the stimulus once the dog barks. In this way, the dog shock collar sends out the static stimulus only when your dog barks.
Some dog owners have voiced out a concern – shock collars may be inhumane to dogs. One needs to remember that the level of electric shock the unit releases is no more painful than static electricity one may get from carpets. One reason shock collars are popular is because of the degree of success they enjoy with startling dogs enough to halt their barking.
That’s because the shock received is a good way to interrupt and therefore deter barking, which is exactly what owners expect. After a few days, the dogs wearing the shock collars show a marked reduction in their uncontrolled barking.
However, there’s a limitation to no bark collars – they can only respond to and therefore address on kind of behavior – barking. For a more general obedience training, one that is applied to working dogs and hunting dogs, training collars are needed. Remote collars are also training collars, and of which there’s also the static correction type. Remote training collars that use shock as stimulus are different only from static correction types because of the remotely activated stimulus.