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02-24-2006, 12:29 AM | #1 |
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| bark solver is bark solver mean or inhumane? it's an ultrasonic correction tone that sounds at each bark. any experience? |
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02-24-2006, 01:09 AM | #2 |
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| You'll get a variety of opinions on this subject, some of them quite passionate. I personally don't like it. It works by hurting the dog's ears. I'd prefer to try to decrease your dog's barking by management and by teaching a "quiet" command. Barking is a difficult problem, though, more in some dogs than others. If all else fails and it gets down to "me or the dog", I think the bark solver is more humane than rehoming the dog or using a shock collar.
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02-24-2006, 03:02 AM | #3 |
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| My friend has Leonbergers (huge dogs) and she uses a barking collar that works like this....everytime he barks it lets out an odour. When this gets put on Alfie he only barks maybe once or twice then realises thats the barking is giving off the smell. More humane i think.
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02-24-2006, 06:01 AM | #4 |
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| I bought one of those "Barker Breakers" that a few mentioned on this site. My Yorkie is quiet, it's my Maltese that's the barker and we've tried EVERYTHING, except a shock colar which I refuse to ever do. The Barker Breaker emitted a very high pitched noise when he would bark. It worked like a charm for about 5 days and then he just learned to bark louder than Barker Breaker noise! So we're back to square one. |
02-24-2006, 06:06 AM | #5 | |
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I use the old fashion spraywater bottle. Seems to work most of the time. Except now my Molly has learned to duck when she sees me pick up the bottle. | |
02-24-2006, 06:15 AM | #6 | |
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02-24-2006, 06:29 AM | #7 |
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| barkers My husband said the Barker Breaker was more humane then me yelling all the time. Humans also hear the sound, I would say it is not a mean thing to do..it gets their attention so you can correct them. |
02-24-2006, 01:52 PM | #8 | |
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02-24-2006, 02:15 PM | #9 |
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| How about a crying breaker.. Petey walks around crying all the time, I'm ready to kill him.. He crys because he can't get up on the furniture and then he crys because he can't get down, he crys becasue he wants the toy that Bell or Lilly has, he crys because he doesn't want the treat you just gave him!! If the barker breaker worked for crying I would try it!!
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02-25-2006, 03:03 AM | #10 | |
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Yes it is! It has worked for my friends dogs but i have no personal experience with one.
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02-25-2006, 06:42 AM | #11 |
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| Ok....it was mentioned that humans can hear the "ultrasonic" one...can we smell the yucky odor one??? Just thought I would ask before I consider either in the future?? Bren
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02-25-2006, 09:00 PM | #12 |
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| I got the citronella collar for Edie to wear at the office. Dogs don't like the smell, but the lemony essence is actually quite pleasant to people. It did stop her from barking, but the thing stopped working for some reason after a few weeks. They are expensive--the lowest I have seen them advertised is $99 and you buy the citronella refills separately. You refill the citronella chamber from a pressurized can. Some dogs learn while their owners are away that they can bark for a while, empty the chamber, and then have a full day of citronella-free barking!! Therefore, some people recommend that you use them only under supervision. My Edie never figured this out-- I was the person who recommended the Barker Breaker on another thread. It worked great for Edie. It is much less expensive, and just as effective if used correctly. You have to use it as soon as the dog barks so that he associates the sound with his bark. I have only one dog, so it works fine. I don't know how you would use it if you had multiple dogs. I'm not sure you would want to use the correction tone with the non-barkers nearby, but it wouldn't hurt them. I don't believe in shocking little dogs, so I never tried any of those contraptions. I think if you can turn down the intensity of the shock VERY low, it would be just like a wierd tickling sensation on a big dog, but I'm not going to chance it on Edie. |
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