Among new dog owners the question of training their dog not to bark at the wrong time can be very difficult to answer. One of the most common solutions for this problem is using a bark shock collar, although the word “shock” alone is enough to scare some people.
Dog owners have to realize that dogs understand things like “punishment” or “reward” in a different way that humans do. Dogs don’t have a good sense of the future and they live mostly in the present, so unless you correct them at the very moment they do something bad, they won’t understand your actions. That word ‘punish’ is something else that new owners take offence at but they do not realise that a dog can be very seriously ‘punished’ simply by the tone of the owners’ voice. For example, if the owners scold their dog for several minutes after the offense, the dog might get confused and fail to link the behavior with the scolding if the scolding goes for too long.
Does a Bark Collar Work?
A dog bark shock collar will deliver a static shock to the dog whenever it starts barking. The shock is fast and instantanenous and it happens at exactly the same moment the dog incurs in bad behavior. Once the dog makes the link between barking and punishment, it learns to stop the former to avoid the later. In reality, the dog is not ‘hurt’ by the shock, it is confused and ‘forgets’ to bark while trying to work out what happened.
Far from being cruel, a shock bark collar is the only way that an immediate message can be sent to your dog when it behaves incorrectly and, by repetition, teaches your dog how not to be punished.
A bark shock collar shouldn’t be used more than 30 minutes a day, and only at times where barking would be troublesome. Dogs will eventually learn the difference between allowed barking and “bad” barking, and stop the bad one. A dog’s bark collar comes with instructions, and if you just follow them, your dog will stop inconvenient barking in no time.
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.
