With forums and articles and blogs scattered about, it’s not a stretch to claim that some dog owners get the impression that using electronic dog collar only constitutes a program of using pain to make dogs fear engaging in a particular behavior. That’s a stretch of phrasing right there - as though a particularly malevolent quality of pain is needed; the truth is the static shock is only needed to interrupt and later on prevent a dog from engaging in nuisance barking. If a dog keeps on barking, then the more that behavior gets interrupted the more the dog may want to avoid that behavior - naturally, the interruption should cause some amount of discomfort for the dog to pay attention to it.
So there’s nothing here about debilitating pain used - just a low volt shock. Remember that the low volt shock is so low it’s only annoying at the most, so the dog doesn’t get hurt. Any training regiment using static correction collars only aims to instill a learned, conditioned response - a bark is followed by an unpleasant experience.
The two kinds of static or shock collars depending on how the static is activated. The first one is activated by both the sound made by a bark and the vibrations of the throat of the dog. This allows for secure activation - the collar will trigger only at your dog’s bark, since it can discriminate between the bark and other sounds nearby. Another kind makes use of a transmitter roughly the size of a small cellular phone - that unit is called the transmitter and the receiver in a device on a special dog collar. This bark-triggered kind works well both in and outside your home; but it only works on incessant barking, which is just one particular annoying dog behavior.
Your dog may even engage in digging up the soil in your garden (or someone else’s), or clawing up and peeing on your prized furniture. With a remote controlled collar, the moment you see your dog misbehave - start digging up garden soil, running to chase down cars on the street, etc. - so can immediately send the signal to the collar to release an annoying shock. This shows just how useful remote dog collars can be, as they can be utilized in just about any obedience training routine. These programs include - hunting routines, pet containment, anti-barking, and agility training.
Dog collars aren’t limited to the static type, as others also use disruptive stimuli, but in other forms. The dog collars that do not make use of shocks as the behavior-disruptive stimuli use scented sprays or high pitched sounds.
Just give it some time - but in the long run you’ll see how the dog figures out the causal link between the behavior you want to weed out and the static shocks that keep annoying your dog. After a few hours spend with an electronic dog collar, you will notice that your dog still needs work - it will put on a funny face or look bewildered in an attempt to figure out where the shock is coming from.
Electronic Dog Collar - What Shoppers Need to Know
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