If there’s one problem most dog owners share, it’s all that noisy barking. You could have a small toy dog or a Labrador, but the constant barking is a problem for both dog owner and neighbor alike. Do you own several dogs that bark at the slightest stimulus, and don’t know when to stop? The doggy woe list goes on. What’s a dog owner to do? You can get your dog a Petsafe bark collar.
How a No-Bark Collar Works
There are three bark-deterrent systems you can choose from – spray, ultrasonic, and static. A no-bark collar works in this way: when it detects your dog barking, it releases a stimulus in the form of a dog-safe spray, a high-pitched sound only dogs can hear, or a low-voltage electric shock. Each of these pose no harm whatsoever to your dog. Training your dog to bark less and less comes in the form of learned association – between the barking and the stimuli. You’ll notice over time that your dog will be a barking a great deal less compared to when he was not wearing the no-bark collar.
Finding the collar that works
Dogs come in many sizes, so do the collars – small, medium, and large. You want a collar that’s as close to snug-fit as possible, with room for adjustment. Remember that the device on the collar is essentially a small, bulging box. Get the small one if your dog is small, medium if medium, and so on.
How to get what you pay for
Dogs can get rowdy playing with other dogs, or just by plain paying around. That means there’s big chance your dog can ruin his collar’s device by bumping it around, or soaking it wet.
Incidentally, your dog might turn the knobs and buttons on the device, if they are badly made, by his movements.
There could also be a problem if the device cannot tell if the dog was barking or if a loud airplane flew over, or when a loud truck pulled close to your house.
The outcome would be a failure in conditioning, in deterring your dog’s barking behaviour.
Durability, Reliability, and Results
So, to sum up, a collar that fits your dog’s size, works well even when exposed to water, withstands getting jostled around, and can tell whether the loud sound is a bark or a truck passy by. Of the many collars in the market that does all these and more is the bark collar.