YorkieTalk.com Forums - Yorkshire Terrier Community - View Single Post - Cruel to use this anti-bark collar?

YorkieRose · 06-01-2006, 04:44 PM

At 3 months you have a chance to nip this in the bud..but it sounds like you have a "natural" barker...if you have a place in the house away from the bedrooms, put her pen there...it is going to be hard to ignore a non-stop barker...and starting so young is even harder..I would talk to a professional trainer asap.

I will tell you an electronic bark collar is not the answer. I bought one about 12 years ago for a terrible barker I had...it was for 5 pounds and up. There degrees were from 1 to 10...it said to start at 3...so I set it on 3, put it up to my neck and made a slight bark..it shocked me so bad I screamed. I always use myself as a guinea pig when it comes to my dogs...honest to goodness I thought my husband was going to have to call the paramedic's...it shocked me so bad..my ears rang..10 would have killed me..LOL

Of course, whenever I get together with a group of breeder friends, they always wanted me to tell the story about the time I tested the NO-Bark collar on myself...

06-01-2006, 04:44 PM	#29
YorkieRose No Longer a Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: South Florida Posts: 8,577	barking At 3 months you have a chance to nip this in the bud..but it sounds like you have a "natural" barker...if you have a place in the house away from the bedrooms, put her pen there...it is going to be hard to ignore a non-stop barker...and starting so young is even harder..I would talk to a professional trainer asap. I will tell you an electronic bark collar is not the answer. I bought one about 12 years ago for a terrible barker I had...it was for 5 pounds and up. There degrees were from 1 to 10...it said to start at 3...so I set it on 3, put it up to my neck and made a slight bark..it shocked me so bad I screamed. I always use myself as a guinea pig when it comes to my dogs...honest to goodness I thought my husband was going to have to call the paramedic's...it shocked me so bad..my ears rang..10 would have killed me..LOL Of course, whenever I get together with a group of breeder friends, they always wanted me to tell the story about the time I tested the NO-Bark collar on myself...