The barking has gotten out of control!

[JackieMaya]

I REALLY hate to do it, but I'm going to have to resort to a shock collar for Maya's and Pooh Bear's barking outside. Their barking has really gotten out of control. And the two dogs feed off each other when one starts barking. They get barking at the little yappy dog in the yard behind us and Pooh Bear goes nuts barking at the squirrels. Hopefully I'll be able to have the collars on just the sound correction very soon. They're both smart dogs, and should both figure out very quickly that barking is NOT a good thing to do. I'm trying VERY hard to be a considerate neighbor with my dogs, and I need to nip the problem in the bud now before I get any complaints or visits from the cops.

Jackie doesn't bark outside, so I don't need to get her a special collar.

[BuddysMom]

If anyone knows how to do this correctly you do, so it should be just fine! Sorry it comes down to this but you should feel good that you know how to do it effectively, and that you choose it as a last resort and not a short cut. Best of luck.

[Guest Anonymous]

I had to resort to a shock collar myself few years ago. Initially it seemed to work very well, until I started to notice some problems that made me take it off.
I used to live near a major airport. Sometimes when a large plane flew over, the vibrations or the noise caused the collar to go off and shock my dog. Also, when ever she rubbed against the chain link, which she liked to do on occasion, the collar would also go off. My other dogs used to set it off too when they barked close to her. The poor dog got shocked so many times for the wrong reasons that I had to remove it. Hopefully you won’t have these problems, but just something to consider when you use it.
Unfortunately, I had to eventually debark her to keep the peace in the neighborhood.

Btw, I tried these collars that just omit sound with out shock and it did not do a thing.

[rotten_two]

refresh my memory JM have you tried the citronella collar? i know you have tried many things in your quest to quiet the dogs, but i can't remember if citronella was one of them. if not you could try that before you go all the way with shock. is the barking as bad if you let your dogs out one at a time?

[ObedienceGrrl]

R2.....I believe the citronella was the first one used on both dogs.

[rotten_two]

thanks OG - i take it that was/became ineffective.

[xavierandrea]

JM. I truly hope that you are successfully with the collars. You have tried everything you could. Good luck. Keep us posted.

[CincoandDahlilasgirl]

Good luck! I know you have tried many things.

[DogPaddle]

If you need the bark collar go ahead, don't worry. Just remember that it is a training tool like any other and follow the instructions. There are suggestions on how long and how often to let the dog wear them in the box ususally. My friends mom had one for her dog and they progressed from bark collar to alternating between bark collar and collar with a box designed to look/weigh like the shockbox, to switching between bark collar and fake bark collar and regular collar and so forth. The dog rarely barks now, no matter what it is or isn't wearing on its neck. They did have a problem with it going off as she zipped downstairs though.

[JackieMaya]

I tried the citronella collar on both dogs, and it worked on Maya longer than it worked on Pooh Bear, but now Maya ignores the spray. I also tried a sonic anti-bark collar on Pooh Bear that would emit a high-pitched sound when he barked, and that didn't work long either.

I'm also planning on switching back and forth between the shock collar and the sound only collar and the citronella collar. That way they'll always get a "special" collar on, so hopefully after getting a few "corrections" with the shock collar, just getting a "special" collar on will work.

Their barking has even been driving me nuts, so I'm sure the neighbors aren't thrilled either. I haven't gotten any new complaints, so I definitely want to try to put a stop to the noise before I get any complaints.

By the way, my sister used a shock collar on her three Irish Setters who all barked a lot. She just got one collar, and switched dogs every day. After each of them had been shocked by the collar, once the sound went off, no matter which one was wearing the collar, they would all stop barking. Hopefully it'll be that way for Maya and Pooh Bear.

Believe me, the shock collar is a last resort.

[JackieMaya]

rotten_two napisał(a):

refresh my memory JM have you tried the citronella collar? i know you have tried many things in your quest to quiet the dogs, but i can't remember if citronella was one of them. if not you could try that before you go all the way with shock. is the barking as bad if you let your dogs out one at a time?

The three dogs have so much fun playing together and hanging out together that I really don't want to have to put them out one at a time. And if the squirrels are in the trees chirping away, Pooh Bear will bark like crazy even if he's the only one out there.

I'm out with them the whole time they're outside. I've been going up to them and making them come to the house when they bark. I have a big yard, so I've been doing a lot of walking back and forth, and then they end up starting up again anyway.