Isn’t it ironic that so many people give you a strange look the minute you mention anti bark collars, and yet those self same people are will to subject their pets to extremely emotional upset, and even cruelty on occasions? Not all the dogs are frequently barking, but some of them rarely stop from barking, and if you are used to such behaviour, be sure that your neighbours are going to complain about, and of course they’ll have every right to do it. Incessantly barking will eventually drive anyone up the wall. In fact, if your dog continues to disturb your neighbours through its excessive barking, especially at inappropriate times, you will also get into troubles with the law. And if you get into such trouble with the law, besides the financial aspect, there is also the possibility of beeing forced to give up at the dog that is continuously causing a disturbance.
After all those years you have been together with your dog, it will be a significant emotional disturbance to be forced to give him or her to another owner. To make matters worse, the new owners will quite likely get rid of the dog as well once they discover how much disturbance it causes. In many cases, these dogs just keep moving from one home to a next, until eventually they find themselves in an animal shelter, and then finally on the receiving end of a lethal injection. Many people do not think that far, and so they call inhumane the use of a device producing a negligible static shock that could prevent such situation.
We should take into consideration that media extensively presented, through movies, reports and exaggerated talk shows some cases of psychologically disturbed people who tortured their dogs using shock collars. The vast majority of those who wrote such reports claim to be the most devoted dog lovers, but none of them ever did at least some basic research about the anti bark collars. Some are even under the impression that you need to shave a section of the dog’s neck, in much the same way criminals are shaved in preparation for the electric chair. Can you believe that some of these reporters are so misinformed so that they claim to have seen burn marks on these dogs’ necks? How could two small AA batteries general enough charge to burn or harm anything?.
The right nickname of these electronic Anti Bark Collars should be in fact “tingle” collars, and not shock collars. We have all experienced static electricity when undressing some sort of clothes, and the tiny shock we have sensed can’t really be described as painful. Of course it frightens you for the moment, but it does not harm you.
Thousands of dogs have escaped euthanasy due to these collars. They are a real blessing for the owners whose dogs stopped barking just after a few days of wearing the collars. Before the electric shock, most of the Anti Bark Collars issue a warning beep. The electric shock is administered gradually, if the dog continues barking after the warning beep. With that said, even the most powerful shock is little more than what we know as a static shock. It cannot be more powerful than the two AA batteries allow.
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The right nickname of these electronic Anti Bark Collars should be in fact “tingle” collars. The intensity of the electric shock is adjustable. Most Anti Bark Collars firstly issue a warning beep.
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