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You want to enforce some rules whether your dog is in the house or out with you on the park. So you have a list, drawn, from experience, about what counts as acceptable and unacceptable behavior from your dog. It is for this reason that there a variety of no-bark collars on the market. Getting your dog used to wearing the collar is to be a project between pet and owner. There is one particularly recommended unit available - dog shock collar.

Some Info for Shoppers

Now, there are thee main types of bark collars. These types are known as static, sonic, and spray. A dog shock collar is the static correction type, as it sends out a low volt shock as the corrective stimulus. The sonic type uses a high-pitched tone that is annoying to dogs - a sound only dogs can hear, since it’s beyond the range of normal human hearing. The spray type of collar uses a scented liquid as deterrent, since a dog has a well-developed sense of smell. By far the most popular is the static correction type.

The no-bark collar type, the three types of which have been covered above, activate once the dog barks, and hence are automatic. This is how the dog shock collar triggers when your dog engages in that unruly behaviour - barking.

As for whether static correction collars are inhumane, assuredly there are. One needs to remember that the level of electric shock the unit releases is no more painful than static electricity one may get from carpets. The reason why static collars enjoy a popularity among dog owners is due to the results in brings in curbing a dog’s barking.

That’s because the shock received is a good way to interrupt and therefore deter barking, which is exactly what owners expect. After a few days, the dogs wearing the shock collars show a marked reduction in their uncontrolled barking.

One may have to keep in mind, also, that no bark collars are designed only to correct one type of behaviour, and that is barking. For a more general obedience training, one that is applied to working dogs and hunting dogs, training collars are needed. Remote training collars belong to this category, of which there is also a static correction type. The difference is that the static correction is activated via a remote control manually activated by the owner, as opposed to an automatic sensor on the bark collar.

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