Isn’t it ironic that so many people give you a strange look the minute you mention anti bark collars, and yet those self same people are will to subject their pets to extremely emotional upset, and even cruelty on occasions? 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. In fact, if your dog continues to disturb your neighbours through its excessive barking, especially at inappropriate times, you will also get into troubles 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. To make matters worse, the new owners will quite likely get rid of the dog as well once they discover how much disturbance it causes. 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. Many people do not think that far, and so they call inhumane the use of a device producing a negligible static shock that could prevent such situation.
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. Some of these people even associate the use of the anti bark collars with the way criminals are prepared for the electric chair. Can you believe that some of these reporters are so misinformed so that they claim to have seen burn marks on these dogs’ necks? How could two small AA batteries general enough charge to burn or harm anything?.
The right nickname of these electronic Anti Bark Collars should be in fact “tingle” collars, and not shock collars. We have all experienced static electricity when undressing some sort of clothes, and the tiny shock we have sensed can’t really be described as painful. Of course it frightens you for the moment, but it does not harm you.
There are thousands of dogs alive today just thanks to these collars. They have been used as a last resort by many dog owners, but have been proven effective in just a couple of days. Additionally, most Anti Bark Collars will warn the dog before the shock is administered. If the dog then goes ahead and starts bark, a very mild shock is given, and if the dog continues to bark, the intensity of the shock increases. Even at the maximum intensity, the electric shock barely overpasses what we know as 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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