Tibbe responds to "No" and a serious look when he barks in the house NOW but he used to bark a - lot. Took some disagreeing with this behavior when he barked at everything before he learned. Now he barks when he hears a suspicious noise and that's the way I like it - a good watch dog who is no longer nervous, barking at everything. He gets praise for barking at suspicious noises.
Just curious about the collars. I can't see that I would ever use one because most dogs I've been around seem to respond fine to regular old-fashioned behavior modification training. But the electric collars: Is all they do is vibrate? Will vibration scare a dog? Do they sting? I would never hurt a dog to train it but always wondered how a vibration hurts a dog. Is it the fact that it is vibrating over the trachea that hurts them? I just think anything much vibrating around on a Yorkie's neck whatever it did would not be good as they are so tiny - even the tea pots are still very small dogs. |