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anti-bark collars
Do those work or are they mean?
The dog barks at any neighbor who dares enter their backyard. Its getting extremely annoying. Dog knows its bad. When I call his name, he slowly walks back to the house with his head down. I don't punish him or anything (should I?) but he has to come in the house.
I've tried a squirt bottle but he seems to like that.
Any other ideas?
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Re: anti-bark collars
Bad, bad, bad. Not as horrible as people who clip vocal cords, but still no good.
Have you taken your dog to any training classes? Did he do puppy kindergarten? There are lots of places around Austin that provide Canine Good Citizen classes, and those are GREAT for dealing with lots of different doggy problems.
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My pup does the same thing, and like yours, he knows he is doing wrong, or at least that I don't want him doing it. As soon as I open the door, he comes running in. But at least we're not the annoying neighbors who leave our dogs outside all day and all night to bark at any and everything and keep people up!
Anyways, in addition to pp's class suggestions (which I seriously need to do because puppy class was not enough for my feisty guy), I've read that training your dog to speak (and subsequently not speak) may help, that way you can give him the command to "quiet" or "no speak", whatever you choose.
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We're not in Austin. There's a dog training place around here called Sit Means Sit. I haven't looked into it yet, but I'll probably end up taking him to a trainer.
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We have one for our yippy Sheltie. I resisted it for the longest time (DH was all about it) and we tried every freaking trick in the book. NOTHING worked and it was to the point that I resented the dog a LOT for waking the baby and just generally being a huge PITA.
The bark collar was a lifesaver in our case. He gets a warning tone before he'd actually get zapped, and he's probably only been zapped about 3 times in the past year. He's much, much quieter when we need him to be. He only wears it a few hours a day and doesn't seem to mind it at all, but he definitely gets that once the collar goes on, barking isn't okay. The batteries have been dead for weeks but he still obeys with the collar on.
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We used to have one for our dog and now I wish I never would have. We crated our dogs from the moment we got them so they knew when we left they went in their box. Then we moved apartments and I guess the change was too much for one of my dogs and he HATED being crated and all he did was bark when in it. We tried everything including classes, nothing worked. We eventually got the collar. It was effective for the purpose of getting him to stop barking. The first couple of days he made the most awful yelp any time it shocked him and I wanted to stop but DH said no. Eventually he caught on and stopped, so we took the battery out but kept the collar on just so that maybe he would know what would happen if he barked. Well then he resorted to this awful panting and we would be gone for less than an hour and my dog's whole front of his body would be soaked with slobber. It was disgusting. We have since stopped all of the above and they are doing fine just being out in the house.
Basically, the point of my long rant, is if I could do it over again, I would not have bought the bark collar.
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We put our dog through 2 months with a private trainer and she still had barking problems. A lot of other things got much better but we ultimately had to resort to the collar becuase she would literally bark nonstop for 3 hrs or more, despite anything we did, it got to the point that my husband was so aggitated that I had to get him out of the house, he was at his breaking point.
I don't think the collars are mean, I've put it on my own neck and zapped myself at the same setting I use on her (because like many people, I thought it was a horrible cruel thing to do) and it was not painful at all, just kinda uncomfortable, probably less for her since she has fur. Now we just put it on her and don't even have to turn it on anymore. She knows when the collar's on, it's quiet time.