Bark Collar Review
Training your dog to stop barking is a lot easier said than done. It is especially hard if you are not home during the day and that is the main time he is barking annoying your neighbors. Dog barking does not just effect you, it can effect a whole neighbourhood and it can really upset people. The last thing you want as a dog owner is animal control on your door step all because your neighbors complained about the excessive barking.
Anti barking collars are not designed to be worn every day. They are designed to be a corrective method only and once you starting seeing results then you need to discontinue use, and only reuse the collar if your dogs behaviour is starting to slip. If your dog is neurotic then its best that you search for alternatives to a stop barking collar. This is because the unpleasant vibrations that your dog will be feeling may set the dog off to try and get the collar off, this could leave to your dog being hurt.
The different types of a stop barking collars are the citronella collar, this will let off a spray near the dogs face, your dog will not like the smell and soon figure out that when he barks it will trigger off this smell he does not like. The other type is a static collar, this sends off an unpleasant vibration when your dog barks. Again your dog will soon learn that when they bark, they get an unpleasant vibration. This vibration has no electricity in it, so it will not cause your dog any pain.
Dogs bark for many different reasons. To stop your dog from barking, you really need to figure out why he or she is barking in the first place. Boredom, anxiety, excitement and stranger alert are the some of the reasons why your dog will bark. If your dog is barking excessively then there is a good chance that there is something in your dogs life that is bothering him or her, and barking is the only way of expressing that.
Anti barking collars are designed to be used for corrective training only. They are good in the sense that if you do not have the time to train your dog, then its a good way of stopping the barking almost immediately. However, they do need to stop being used when the excessive barking stops. Its normal for a dog to bark a little, but once it gets to excessive then the dog needs to be stopped.
