It happens that, when you are speaking to some persons and mention the fact your dog is wearing an anti bark collar, they look at you in some strange way , but when they speak about their dogs, you realize those dogs are emptionally damaged. If it happens to own a dog that loves barking all the day, and especially when your neighbours want to rest, you can be sure that those people will eventually complain, and for the very best reason. Very few people are able to resist incessantly barking, but no one has any good reason to do it. Not only is the barking going to cause a rift with your neighbors, but it can also get you into trouble 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.
Having to give your dog away after he or she has been with you for many years can be a huge emotional upset, both for you and the dog. And if the dog is not properly trained to change its barking behaviour and continues to disturb people, the new owner will most likely get rid of it too. 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. Of course the opposants of electric bark collars never thought that this kind of situation may occur if some dog owner gives up at using the device.
Unfortunately though, the vast majority of people have seen movies where a dog has been tortured using a shock collar, and they’ve read reports on how cruel these collars are. In reality however, these reports are written by those who claim to love be devoted dog lovers, yet they’ve never taken the time to actually research anti bark collars. A quite spread belief among such people is that a portion of the dogs’ neck is shaved in order to apply the electric shocks. Can you believe that some of these reporters are so misinformed so that they claim to have seen burn marks on these dogs’ necks? Is the small AA batterie able to produce a skin burn?
The electronic Anti Bark Collars should better be called “tingle” collars than this awfully looking shock collars. After all, when you take your jumper off on a hot and humid day, and you touch something and get a tiny shock, one can’t really describe it as being painful. Yes it gives you a fright, but it’s by no means painful, and it can certainly do you no harm.
There are thousands of dogs alive today just thanks 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. If the dog then goes ahead and starts bark, a very mild shock is given, and if the dog continues to bark, the intensity of the shock increases. The static shock we know is barely overpassed by the maximum intensity level of the collar shock. After all, there are only two tiny batteries delivering the charge in the first place.
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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