First of all, owners have to understand that the concept of “punishment” is different to dogs than it is to humans. Dogs don’t have a good sense of the future and they live mostly in the present, so unless you correct them at the very moment they do something bad, they won’t understand your actions. Some new owners might feel that punishing a dog is morally wrong, without realizing that a dog’s sense of punishment and resistance is much more different from humans, If the owner is berating the dog many minutes after the ‘offence’, the dog simply gets confused because it does not associate the punishment with the offence.

So why Does a Bark Shock Collar Work?

A dog bark shock collar delivers a calculated static discharge when barking is occurring. The mild shock is a punishment delivered by the bark shock collar at exactly the right time for the dog to associate one with the other. Most dogs will soon learn that barking will be punished and will control their impulse. The dog is never really hurt or in pain by the shock; it’s actually the confusion that makes it stop barking while it tries to figure out what happened.

Far from being cruel, a shock bark collar is the only way that an immediate message can be sent to your dog when it behaves incorrectly and, by repetition, teaches your dog how not to be punished.

No dog bark shock collar should be used for more than half an hour or so each day and then, only at times when barking would be a nuisance. Dogs are very smart animals and no more want to be punished than any other animal or person. If you simply follow the collar’s instructions that come with it, you’ll teach your dog not to bark unnecessarily in no time, and your neighbors will thank you for it.