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View Poll Results: Anti-Bark Collar | |||
Yes | 8 | 17.78% | |
No | 34 | 75.56% | |
Other intervention (please post) | 3 | 6.67% | |
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05-23-2005, 07:47 PM | #1 |
Oreo,Ginger&Cloey Owned Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: none of your business
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| Anti-Bark Collar I have my little Ginger who is 6 Months old, She Barks at Everything! at first it was cute, but after the first day of pure barking. After repetitively saying in a firm voice, "NO". it wouldn't stop. water squirt bottle wouldn't work, blowing in her face didn't work, bottle of pennies didn't work.. just made her more mad.. i'm really interested in getting a anti-bark collar.. but need feedback, i don't want to be doing anything inhumane to my gingee, but her barking is driving me, my bf, Oreo and the rest of my family insane. |
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05-23-2005, 11:51 PM | #2 |
YT Addict Join Date: May 2005 Location: Surrey
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| Have you seen a behaviourist and trainer about this. Because training is the best way to stop it IMO. |
05-24-2005, 12:31 AM | #3 |
Oreo,Ginger&Cloey Owned Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: none of your business
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| no i haven't seen a behaviourist or a trainer. i don't know if i have enough money for them to take a look at her and tell me whats wrong with her. where i live, everything is overpriced... if worse comes to worse i'll see a behaviorist... i just wanted advice.. so yours was kindly taken. |
05-24-2005, 06:06 AM | #4 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: House Of York
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| I use an anti-bark collar. The one I have isn't a shock collar but a spray collar. It sprays citronella up toward their face when they bark. I only use it when I'm leave them in the hotel by themselves because I'm not there to correct them if they bark. When I'm home or around them, I don't because I have taught them to stop barking when I say "quiet". By the way, how big is your yorkie. There is a size limits on some of these collars. |
05-24-2005, 07:13 AM | #5 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Alabama
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| We use one on our one of big dogs. We used to use it more so than now. We lived in a neighborhood and got a complaint about it. Now we live in the country and it doesn't matter as much (well we haven't had any complaints yet, I don't know if they could actually file one out here or not). It is a shock one and it works. It beeps before it shocks him and really anytime he has it one he just doesn't bark so he doesn't get shocked (although he did when he was learning what it was). I know we all felt really bad having to do it though. My aunt used the citronella ones and I think one that makes that high pitch noise on her two medium-sized dogs. I think she switched from the high pitch noise because there were two of them and the other would be "punished" when it wasn't barking. I think she liked the citronella ones. I heard that if you teach them to speak then its easier to teach them not to speak/bark. Maybe they then know what barking is and when you tell them "no speak" they then know what you are telling them not to do, but I don't know if this is true or not. I also heard that once you teach them to speak that they won't bark as much b/c they know there's a time to bark, again don't know if this is true either, but its worth a shot.
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05-24-2005, 07:53 AM | #6 |
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| Dont worry! Get a water bottle that will spray in a strage stream. fill it up with warm water and wait for a bark. Tell her once in a gentle voice No, if she continues say nothing and squirt her. This will change her instantly! Use is for any training in place of saying No more than once. I used it for all my dogs and it a God Send. Good Luck! |
05-24-2005, 07:57 AM | #7 |
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| PLEASE NO SHOCK COLLARS thats not a cure its crulty and not nessassery. Dogs bark out of fear, protection of there home and being lonley. If you buy a water bottle with a spray nozzel all that barking will stop with your first No and a little squrit in the face. Last edited by rikarts; 05-24-2005 at 07:59 AM. |
05-24-2005, 08:00 AM | #8 |
Stewie Rox the Sox Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Chicago
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| I think bark collars are horrible for a dog of any size. I tap Stewie on the nose and tell him to shut up. That usually works. If it doesnt, I hold his mouth shut for a second or two. Good luck with little Ginger. I know how annoying that could be.
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05-24-2005, 08:49 AM | #9 |
Oreo,Ginger&Cloey Owned Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: none of your business
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| i've tried the water bottle thing, i already mentioned that up there. doesn't work. i was probably going to go with the spray collar, cause the shock collar is a little cruel. my Ginger is 6 months old and is 4.5 lbs. please don't be offended that i made this thread up. maybe dogs do bark out of fear.. but certainly ginger is barking out of plain curiousity. |
05-24-2005, 09:05 AM | #10 |
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| I also saw on the dog whisperer that sometimes when the dog is barking they are barking to warn you or such. Reagan, our Yorkie, barks at the door all the time, we also have a cat door that she constantly thinks someone/thing is at. He said that the dog is alerting you and when you try and hush the dog it intensifies the situation and rather than correcting you dog at times such as this to reward them and try to calm them down and let them know its ok and that they did the right thing. We do this with Reagan when she is barking at something we think she is telling us about and she quits barking pretty quick. I usually go see what she's barking at to let her know that I get her point and tell her good and its ok. One day I may be glad she told/warned me. But if she's just barking to be barking, or barking at us to play or something like that, we don't reward her then we tell her no.
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05-24-2005, 09:11 AM | #11 | |
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05-25-2005, 07:07 AM | #12 | |
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05-25-2005, 07:12 AM | #13 | |
Stewie Rox the Sox Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Chicago
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How horrible for your sister and the pooch. I am 100% against these things for that reason.
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05-25-2005, 11:53 AM | #14 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Alabama
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| Well I would never recommend using a shock collar on a yorkie, really I wouldn't recommend using a shock collar period. I actually had an extra paragraph in my post earlier, deleted it, and forgot to add that back in. If someone asked me if it worked on my dog I would say yes, we haven't had any problems with it. We don't use it anymore since we live in the country. But when we lived in a neighborhood someone filed a complaint against us about his barking. Since he had food agression issues giving him away was not something we could do (we wouldn't have wanted to anyway). The man came and told us point blank next time there will be a fee and after that we will take the dog, so he probably would've been put down had they due to his food aggression. We only used it on him at night so he was free to bark to his hearts content during the day. Like I said though we did not have any problems with the collar. Not to mention this particular one wasn't that bad we all took a shock before we put it on him, its more of a static shock just to startle him.
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06-11-2005, 07:56 AM | #15 |
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| No anti-bark collars! My 3.5 lb yorkie only barks when I leave her alone. I researched and phone an anti-bark device that will sound a high pitched tone when she barks. You can adjust how loud the tone is, so there is no harm done to the dog. I checked into the collars and they weighed as much as my dog, and shocking a dog is cruel. The device is only 30.00 and has great reviews. |
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