Among new dog owners the question of training their dog not to bark at the wrong time can be very difficult to answer. 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. 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. 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.
So why Does a Bark Shock Collar Work?
A dog bark shock collar delivers a calculated static discharge when barking is occurring. The shock is fast and instantanenous and it happens at exactly the same moment the dog incurs in bad behavior. With enough time, dogs eventually learn to refrain their barking so that they can avoid the punishment. 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.
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.
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. If you simply follow the collar’s instructions that come with it, you’ll teach your dog not to bark unnecessarily in no time, and your neighbors will thank you for it.
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 a dog bark shock collar will help you train your dog and avoid invonvenient barking.
