There are lots of dog owners who disaprove the use of anti bark collars, considering them to be some inhumane if not even torture devices, but the very same people are subjecting their pets to extremely emotional upset, and even cruelty on some occasions. Some dogs rarely bark, but there are also those who rarely stop barking, and unless you live in the middle of nowhere, your neighbors are going to complain, and of course they’ll have every right to. Very few people are able to resist incessantly barking, but no one has any good reason to do it. Not only is the barking going to cause a rift with your neighbors, but it can also get you into trouble with the law. Most jurisdictions have legislation in place which could force a dog owner to get rid of their dog if it’s continuously causing a disturbance.
For both you and the dog, if you have to give up at him or her, after all those years you have spent together, will be a huge emotional distress. And if the dog is not properly trained to change its barking behaviour and continues to disturb people, the new owner will most likely get rid of it too. Such dogs will eventually end up in an animal rescue center, and in the end they will receive lethal injections. Of course the opposants of electric bark collars never thought that this kind of situation may occur if some dog owner gives up at using the device.
Unfortunately though, the vast majority of people have seen movies where a dog has been tortured using a shock collar, and they’ve read reports on how cruel these collars are. In reality however, these reports are written by those who claim to love be devoted dog lovers, yet they’ve never taken the time to actually research anti bark collars. A quite spread belief among such people is that a portion of the dogs’ neck is shaved in order to apply the electric shocks. And as the proof of such cruel use of the anti bark collars, some reports make claim have seen burn marks on the neck of these dogs. Have you ever seen a skin burn produced by the small AA batterie?
In truth, electronic Anti Bark Collars should be called “tingle” collars, as opposed to shock collars. Few people have not experienced the static energy effect, and we cannot describe the tiny electric shock produced when we touch something metallic as beeing painful. Yes it gives you a fright, but it’s by no means painful, and it can certainly do you no harm.
There are thousands of dogs alive today just thanks to these collars. They are a real blessing for the owners whose dogs stopped barking just after a few days of wearing the collars. Before the electric shock, most of the Anti Bark Collars issue a warning beep. The electric shock is administered gradually, if the dog continues barking after the warning beep. With that said, even the most powerful shock is little more than what we know as a static shock. It cannot be more powerful than the two AA batteries allow.
The right nickname of these electronic Anti Bark Collars should be in fact “tingle” collars. The intensity of the electric shock is adjustable. Most Anti Bark Collars firstly issue a warning beep.
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