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When a first time pet owner looks at a dog, he sees the fun to be with animal. That’s one aspect of having a pet, all right - the fun side; wait till one hears about the problem side. These range from potty accidents indoors to chewing on shoes to jumping on the sofa to yanking items off a low shelf. They may bark all night, too, keeping you and other people awake. When you take your dog out to the yard or to the park, other problems can crop up. A dog may chase cars, kids, bark like bloody murder when they see other animals, just to name a few. This means you need to get your dog a training collar, to shave off the nuisance behavior that ruins items at home and embarrasses you outdoors.

Use bark collars only for dogs with barking problems

There’s a difference, first of all, between no bark or anti bark collars and remote training collars. Bark collars, on the whole, are electric collars that trigger when the dog barks. An activation means sending a shock, spray, or sound stimulus to be felt by the dog. This can take the form of a low volt shock (static or shock collars), a harmless scented liquid (spray collars), or an ultrasonic tone (sound collars). The most common and effective type maybe the static collars. Since such a collar only responds to barks, it can only limit or deter that behavior alone.

Use training collars for a wider range of unwanted behavior

For a wide range of unwanted behavior outside of barking, you have the remote training collars. These can also come in three varieties depending on the stimulus chosen - shock, sound, or spray. When you buy a training collar, that usually means a package containing one transmitter and at least one receiver collar. What triggers the collar is the signal sent by the transmitter, which a dog owner controls.

Training a dog to avoid unwanted behavior takes involvement, close involvement, from the owner. The reason is that only the owner is in a position to both detect the bad behavior and be there to trigger the collar. Such as suddenly running after a car or a kid.

Considered a sub category of training collar are those special collars worn by dogs inside invisible pet fences. With invisible fences, the dog’s collar sounds of a warning tone followed by a static correction when the dog comes near the boundaries.

Over time, the dog will have linked by cause and effect its unwanted behavior with the annoying stimulus that assuredly follows every annoying thing it does - that is the shared goal of both the no bark collar and the remote training collar.

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