It happens that, when you are speaking to some persons and mention the fact your dog is wearing an anti bark collar, they look at you in some strange way , but when they speak about their dogs, you realize those dogs are emptionally damaged. If it happens to own a dog that loves barking all the day, and especially when your neighbours want to rest, you can be sure that those people will eventually complain, and for the very best reason. Let’s face it; a dog that barks incessantly is enough to drive anyone up the wall. Not only is the barking going to cause a rift with your neighbors, but it can also get you into trouble with the law. And if you get into such trouble with the law, besides the financial aspect, there is also the possibility of beeing forced to give up at the dog that is continuously causing a disturbance.
After all those years you have been together with your dog, it will be a significant emotional disturbance to be forced to give him or her to another owner. 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. In many cases, these dogs just keep moving from one home to a next, until eventually they find themselves in an animal shelter, and then finally on the receiving end of a lethal injection. 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. Though those who have written such scenarios and reports claim to be the most lovings of the dog lovers, they never took the time to actually research about the 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. Can you believe that some of these reporters are so misinformed so that they claim to have seen burn marks on these dogs’ necks? Have you ever seen a skin burn produced by the small AA batterie?
The right nickname of these electronic Anti Bark Collars should be in fact “tingle” collars, and not 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. Of course it frightens you for the moment, but it does not harm you.
There are thousands of dogs alive today which would otherwise have been dead or in shelters if it weren’t for these collars. They are a real blessing for the owners whose dogs stopped barking just after a few days of wearing the collars. Additionally, most Anti Bark Collars will warn the dog before the shock is administered. 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’s just as much as two AA batteries can provide.
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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