Some give a vibration as a warning...
then it gives what the companies like to call a "corrective stimulus" or a "vibration" they mean
a shock- an electric shock or a static shock-it hurts. I have read about them and talked to my pet store owner and trainer about them previously.
Continual push button shock collars-are ridiculous implements of animal abuse!
About the collars the safe ones for no barking:
My aunt had one for her dog I tried it-it hurt!
Her's was a static shock collar-the least painful and safest kind on the market the kind that gave warnings and then two or three shocks, reset itself if barking continued, not allowing continual shocking, starting over after a couple minutes with warnings, then two shocks, reset etc....it hurt, I've had two natural child labors...the shock hurt...
She suggested I use it for my BF's dog who was a serious barker...I said thank you for her advice and didn't follow it...
Hasn't anyone tried the bark-off or the other similar devices...how about a dog whistle you blow it every time they bark and it distracts them...? I really like your point about a Yorkie being a great watch dog! Mine are allowed about two barks to alert me then I give the shush command.
I trained my dogs to growl in the house to alert me not bark-but they do sometimes bark...a couple times then they are asked to shush and they do...after being trained to do so.
LoL except for the HGTV doorbell...gets them barking every time!
My friend's American Staff makes people cross the street to get away and my Yorkie makes people cross the street to say hi...if they only knew the Staff will lick them to death only , all 110 pounds of her is pure love...and my 10 pound Yorkie will snap a finger bone like he does a chicken bone...he's the best alerter and guard dog ever!
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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  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. |