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.
The first thing that has to be understood is that dogs do not react to
‘punishment’ in the same way that people do, and there is a very simple reason
for this. Because dogs live in the present almost exclusively, they don't
understand that their behavior needs to be corrected unless they're punished at
the very moment they misbehave. Some new owners might feel that punishing a dog
is morally wrong, without realizing that a dog's sense of punishment and
resistance is much more different from humans, 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 works by delivering a small static discharge to the
dog's neck 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. The dog is never really hurt or in pain by the shock; it's
actually the confusion that makes it stop barking while it tries to figure out
what happened.
Since it's not painful, professionals agree that a dog bark shock collars is
acceptable and efficient in teaching your dog to behave.
No dog bark shock collar should be used for more than half an hour or so each
day and then, only at times when barking would be a nuisance. 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.
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