Dog Collars

[lucy974]

hello

please could you people help me out about my dog barking

i have been looking on the internet and have came across a collar its called

ABOISTOP ANTI-DOG BARKING COLLAR , but its not cheap , i don't mind buying it if its works


so does this collar really work or its it a rip off ?

thank you i will see if i can find the link

http://www.bestpestcontrol.co.uk/aboistop-anti-dog-barking-collar-318-p.asp

 

[CorvusCorax]

What else have you tried? They are dear. I looked into getting one but I just spent a hell of a lot of time using my voice and body language to stop my female being so vocal.
On certain dogs I think zap and spray collars can hype them up even more and they can learn when the collar is on and when it is off.

She still gets a bit yippity yap but I can quell it by banging on a window or door or issuing a a 'SHHT!' or a very firm 'QUIET'.

 

[FinnishLapphund]

I have owned two Norwegian Buhunds, both now sadly dead, but if you only have one they're quite quiet, have more than one and they discuss everything that happens with each other! When the quite quiet Nessie, my first one, was 5 years old, thinking surely it couldn't be that different/difficult, I bought Humla... *sigh*



They both had the most gorgeous characters, both being once in a lifetime dogs, but oh dear how Humla could bark.
However, though the list below, I must mention that the thing that mattered the most for how much and at what she would bark and how quickly she would stop after having been told to be 'Quiet', depended on how bored she was!

More bored = more things was "bark-worthy" and the desire to continue barking was higher. Less bored = less things was "bark-worthy" and the desire to continue barking was somewhat lower.


I really believe I tried almost everything, (in the order that I came to think of them) using my body language and voice (as in being firm but still relaxed, showing that I could deal with the situation and that she could leave it to me), ignoring the barking and/or her, time outs, tastier rewards, toy rewards, shaping training (the same as clicker but with a whistle), spray bottle with water, rattling can, training stop barking without distractions and with distractions, different collars, training her to focus on me, distracting her by asking her to perform some task, boredom breakers/brain exercising toys etc.


Anti-bark collars wasn't really available in Sweden until she was older and then, I want to believe that it had something to do with the incomplete list shown above, we had already got her barking down to one, for us, mostly acceptable/tolerable level. Otherwise I would definitely have tried buying one.


I've met and heard of several owners with two or more Buhunds that uses anti-bark collars with sound or smell effects (I've only asked about how it works, not which brand it was), they put it on their most prolific barker and in general it seems to work quite well. As long as they wear the collar and it is turned on, that is.


Good luck .

 

[soloabe]

Please don't buy one of those horrible things.

They burnt my spaniel. To the point where he needed surgery.

I agree with CC about trying other things.

 

[FinnishLapphund]

Please don't buy one of those horrible things.

They burnt my spaniel. To the point where he needed surgery.

I agree with CC about trying other things.

At dog shows there is the odd dog and bitch here and there (not only Spitzes like Buhunds) that is wearing anti-bark collars, that is then taken off before going into the show ring. I would expect that at least some judge giving them a good "squeeze" would sooner or later notice if all of those dogs/bitches that does wear such collars outside the ring, had badly burnt necks?


I hope you don't mind me asking this but did you use a collar of the same brand as in the link? What is it in the function of them that made them burn your dog?

As I recall, I've only heard of cases before this, were anti-bark collars that uses an electric zap has caused burns.

 

[Jake10]

Hey,

This may seem a bit backwards but my dog trainer told me that in order to teach the dog quiet you must first teach the dog to speak. Thankfully both my dogs (wire fox terrier and border collie x springer spaniel) can now can speak and be quiet when told

 

[soloabe]

At dog shows there is the odd dog and bitch here and there (not only Spitzes like Buhunds) that is wearing anti-bark collars, that is then taken off before going into the show ring. I would expect that at least some judge giving them a good "squeeze" would sooner or later notice if all of those dogs/bitches that does wear such collars outside the ring, had badly burnt necks?


I hope you don't mind me asking this but did you use a collar of the same brand as in the link? What is it in the function of them that made them burn your dog?

As I recall, I've only heard of cases before this, were anti-bark collars that uses an electric zap has caused burns.

I am sure they don't burn everyone but i personally am not willing to take the risk again.

I used the same one as the one in the link (although i did buy a different smelling spray) and the other person i know who's dog was also injured was not using the same brand.

I am not sure exactly how it happened. I was using it under the direction of quite well known trainer in england.

The vet said that it was the force of it spraying out that the nozzle that it comes out of is sat far to close to the skin.
He said it was similar to if you had a high power pressure washer and held the end to your skin. I guess a burn is not the right word but thats just how it looked and healed.

He went for another dog in class the trainer pressed the button and he screamed like i have never heard a dog scream and ran and we found him in the river soaking himself.