Electronic Dog collars

[SideShow Bob]

Try it on the wife first, just to make sure that you are not treating your dog inhumanly.......

[Great-Kazoo]

Try it on the wife first, just to make sure that you are not treating your dog inhumanly.......

How do you know it isn't for said application?












Sportdog has the better quality collars AND very good CS.

[CHA-LEE]

One of my dog's likes to bark and we had to go through a few different versions of collars before we found one that was balanced to his unique level of stubbornness. If you are going for the electric shock type, you want one that has progressive levels of audible and shocking warnings with a limit/cutoff. We settled on the "High Tech Bark Terminator 3" which has several levels of beeping before it starts to actually shock him. It also has a limit/cutoff after it is shocking for a while. The limit/cutoff is important because they can get into a Bark/Shock/Yelp/Shock/Yelp/Shock loop if they push their luck with it.

For our stubborn dog he would power through the weaker shocking collars and simply keep barking even though he was getting lit up. We had to switch to a "Big Dog" version to get the proper shocking level to motivate him to stop barking and not power through it. It only took him a couple of times in getting really lit up before he realized that he couldn't simply power through it any more and NOT BARKING was the solution. Today he still barks, but its usually only a single bark and the collar beeps and he shuts down the barking. Its not too often that he actually gets shocked any more. He knows that there are only a couple of warning beeps before means real business so he keeps it within the "beeping" warning level.

[hawk1]

The limit/cutoff is important because they can get into a Bark/Shock/Yelp/Shock/Yelp/Shock loop if they push their luck with it.

I want something that will work when we aren't home and he's outside. I have a shitty neighbor that kicked in 7 fence slats a week ago when we weren't home. I don't want my dog to be a pain in the ass for neighbors, but at the same time, he's a freaking dog. He (my dog) quits barking when I call him, but sometimes, I can't drop what I'm doing to get him. I think this is what I'd looking for; something that is self driven.