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 dog 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. 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 bark shock collar delivers a calculated static discharge when barking is occurring. The mild shock is a punishment delivered by the bark shock collar at exactly the right time for the dog to associate one with the other. Most dogs will soon learn that barking will be punished and will control their impulse. 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 will eventually learn the difference between allowed barking and “bad” barking, and stop the bad one. 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.
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