bark collars
bark collars
i am just getting some dogs and i am going to be keepin them on someone elses property they said its fine if i put bark collars on them to keep them quiet so how many of you guys use bark collars and how do they work out for you
Re: bark collars
dont use them, but then again i dont keep my dogs away from me, even when im loaded up with lots of young dogs i dont use them, kind of hard to teach obedience when you dont keep them with you, good luck though.
Re: bark collars
I prefer not to use them, but I do use them when they are needed.
When I am home or when the dogs are hunted regularly I don't need to put them on.
When the dogs are a little stale, maybe ones in heat, and only the wife is home to keep them quiet, I end up putting the collars on them.
My dogs aren't the sharpest but they always seem to learn when I am absent, and they know that my wife's idea of discipline isn't anything to fear.
Just don't forget they are on the dog for several days. The probes will cause sores. I will typically take them off when I get home and then reapply in the morning.
Pat
When I am home or when the dogs are hunted regularly I don't need to put them on.
When the dogs are a little stale, maybe ones in heat, and only the wife is home to keep them quiet, I end up putting the collars on them.
My dogs aren't the sharpest but they always seem to learn when I am absent, and they know that my wife's idea of discipline isn't anything to fear.
Just don't forget they are on the dog for several days. The probes will cause sores. I will typically take them off when I get home and then reapply in the morning.
Pat
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Re: bark collars
I really only have to use them on one dog and he is getting better. He is probably the hardest headed dog ever, and his littermates are the same it sounds like. He has it on all day since I live in town, once I move out of town I wont need them as much but will still probably occasionally use them because they need to know its time to be quiet when they are around the house and save their mouths and energy for the woods.
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but would it be bad for me to leave it on them cause i am usually not there? and maybe take it off them when i go to feed them or be with them not hunting
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I leave mine on my dog all day long, he is fine. Sometimes occasionally I take it off so he can just get it off of him but before I go to bed and during the day he has it on him. Cant deal with him barking at night or knowing he might be barking during the day.
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One other thing to be very aware of.
Those collars have a settable intensity level and different dogs have very different response to electrical stimulation.
On a couple of occasions I have put the collar on a dog with too high of a setting for it. They bark and get hit, so they squall and get hit more, and it goes downhill from there. Most of the time you can grab them and hold their mouth shut until they are quiet enough to not get zapped anymore. I can remember once having to pin the dog down and take the collar off to shut them up.
Best is too start at the bottom setting and figure out what they can take and what it takes to do the job.
Worst case is you are not there and have multiple dogs together. Two things may happen. One gets shocked and jumps on another and you have a good fight going. One gets shocked and goes to squalling and the rest load onto it, that will get bad.
As I said before, I don't like them but I find myself using them, just very carefully. You don't have control. Kindof like an experience I had quite awhile back. I had a young female who wouldn't shut up so I put a typical shocking collar on her. Once day she loaded on this big tough hound (totally out of character for her) I had and was getting mopped up when I broke them up, and then I worked them both over. As I am walking away she again jumps the big dog and again is getting mopped up. At that point somehow I realized from her actions that my little boy had found the transmitter in the house, and he wasn't just bumping her a little. If I hadn't been home at the time it could have been messy.
Pat
Those collars have a settable intensity level and different dogs have very different response to electrical stimulation.
On a couple of occasions I have put the collar on a dog with too high of a setting for it. They bark and get hit, so they squall and get hit more, and it goes downhill from there. Most of the time you can grab them and hold their mouth shut until they are quiet enough to not get zapped anymore. I can remember once having to pin the dog down and take the collar off to shut them up.
Best is too start at the bottom setting and figure out what they can take and what it takes to do the job.
Worst case is you are not there and have multiple dogs together. Two things may happen. One gets shocked and jumps on another and you have a good fight going. One gets shocked and goes to squalling and the rest load onto it, that will get bad.
As I said before, I don't like them but I find myself using them, just very carefully. You don't have control. Kindof like an experience I had quite awhile back. I had a young female who wouldn't shut up so I put a typical shocking collar on her. Once day she loaded on this big tough hound (totally out of character for her) I had and was getting mopped up when I broke them up, and then I worked them both over. As I am walking away she again jumps the big dog and again is getting mopped up. At that point somehow I realized from her actions that my little boy had found the transmitter in the house, and he wasn't just bumping her a little. If I hadn't been home at the time it could have been messy.
Pat