Electric Dog Collars – When You Need to Firmly Discourage Bad Dog Behaviour
Writing by Admin on Wednesday, 1 of September , 2010 at 12:10 am
One misconception about placing Electric Dog Collars on dogs is this: the aim is to teach through pain. The aim is always to interrupt your dog’s bad behavior – barking, chewing on furniture, etc. The more times the dog is annoyed at the interruption, the more chances it will remember when it receives such interruptions.
Remember that the unpleasant stimuli does not debilitate the dog. The static shock one receives from touching the outer metal casing of a refrigerator is much more severe compared to the shock a dog receives from his electric collar. This manner of training is already being performed by many dog owners all over the world.
Shock collars belong to two categories. With one type, the combination of your dog’s bark and its vibration combine to activate the stimulus. This is to ensure that the device can discriminate between your dog’s bark and any other loud sound. The second type is activated via a remote control. The bark-activated obviously discourage only one kind of behavior – barking – while the remote one can be used to discourage many other bad behavior.
Your dog might have the habit of stealing other people’s shoes and chewing them up, or chasing smaller pets. The immediacy of the owner’s disapproval – in the form of a shock – and the instance of the bad behavior pays off in the long run. Remote electric collars have also been used in other types of training. These include anti-barking, agility training, hunting routines, and pet containment.
The idea of interrupting your dog’s behavior is to discourage it from ever engaging in them in the first place – a principle shared by other types of no bark collars. The types are sprays, ultrasonics, and vibration.
The quick link between the dog’s behavior and the stimulus that interrupts is enough for the dog to remember that link. Over time, you will appreciate the use of Electric Dog Collars, especially the problem behaviors stop manifesting.
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