A citronella dog collar had shocking results on our dog. Shock collars seem like cruel punishment and not something you would want to subject a pet to. That's certainly what we thought as our young spaniel go more and more vocal. But how could we communicate the need for a little more quiet?
See, that's the problem with some barking. You really can't easily find a reason for it. Maybe it's boredom, but you can't spend full time with your dog. Some high energy dogs can go almost non-stop.
Then again it may be just a result of being lonesome, which is related to being bored. But again, there are only so many hours in a day. You can only spend just so much time with a pet. Then again, maybe there is really no reason for it...
Maybe a dog just likes to bark. Have you ever seen a dog that seemed to be bothered by it's own barking? Likely barking is not a problem for the barker. It's just a problem for the listeners. In that case it becomes a challenge to somehow communicate to the dog that the noise is undesired behavior, undesired by you.
The best way to accomplish that is to link some kind of negatives consequence to wild, uncontrolled barking. Hollering usually doesn't get it. That just rewards the noise with attention which may be part of the desired reaction... by the dog that is.
That's where something shocking and startling comes in handy, but not really a harmful shock, just a startling shock.
Spray collars fill the part easily.
We got a MultiVet spray collar and this is what happened.
The collar consists of a little box attached to a collar. The box is positioned so it rides on the front of the dog's neck right under the head. The box contains a sensor to detect barking along with a spray pump and an oil reservoir.
What happens when the barking starts is the sensor picks up the movement and a puff of mist sprays out and covers the area around the dog's head. Citronella oil is not harmful, but it's very smelly. On top of that the surprise of that spray is obviously quite unsettling.
Our dog barked once and got a quick spray. The surprise was evident. A second quick bark was also met with a cloud and then the strangest thing happened. She learned that quick that barking was uncomfortable and it got very quiet. After just a few days she adjusted to the set-up and began to bark very seldom. At that point we either most of the time took the collar off or at least disarmed it.
It worked to actually communicate to our dog that the uncontrolled barking was not acceptable. Now she barks but mostly only when it makes sense to bark. The citronella dog collar did it's job and is really rarely needed anymore.
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