You’re losing sleep, your neighbors are complaining, no one in your house can watch TV or talk on the phone without a headset, shuttles in the driveway or friends at the front door causing a loud blast from the usually gentle family dog. You are upset.
You will do anything to stop the noise! You see an online ad that promises success, casually order a device, and wait patiently for it to arrive. You have hope! You can stop the noise!
The device arrives. (If you order from a country you don’t live in, the device will arrive months after it’s completely out of stock.) The instructions aren’t easy to understand.
They know enough to fill it. Then put the device to work.
The tool doesn’t seem to work.
Not sure what to do exactly. Read the instructions again. Not clear. You’ll remember a claim from an online ad—the device will stop your dog from barking… forever.
no i don’t.
Now the dog is acting strangely.
You are not sure why.
You don’t know what to do next.
Try again?
I posted: “When Anti-Bark Devices Stop Barking Dogs, What Happened?”
I asked dog experts and dog breeders to answer that question.
Lynn Brezina (Illinois) Inability to solve the main problem, which is not always easy to identify.
Photo by Abigail Whithauer
Dennis Nuttall (United Kingdom) Screaming motive unknown. Scream is multi-tasking. Dogs bark because they are scared, lonely, stressed, angry, happy, bored, deaf, or responding socially to another dog. None of these reasons are addressed in the anti-crust neck. I once worked with someone who used it because their dog would bark when they barked. What the dog learned was that when their owners left, they got shocks on their necks. This made them more anxious, which resulted in more yelling even though they were being “punished”. Noise can be easily solved by considering the root cause.
Julie Ellingson (California) I had a similar experience with a client who left a collar on their dog in the grooming room. The dog barked, barked when he was startled, startled to bark, and then he began to howl in pain and fear, and he was always panicking for him. We couldn’t find that damn thing fast enough. That poor dog. This was many years ago. I still hate them.
Don Hansen (Maine) If barking is intolerable to someone, why should we ask why they have a dog?
Christine Hale Vertucci (Illinois) is often impatient with neighbors, especially those who live in apartment buildings. When I was working at the shelter, we had many dogs that were surrendered or at risk of being surrendered. [for barking].
Jane Brennan (California) Anyone I’ve ever met who tried tree bark (shock or citrus spray) was because of a neighbor’s complaint.
Connie Sagona Petit. (New Hampshire) Don’t know. I have never used a weapon. “No bark!” I have taught my dogs to stop barking.
House fable (Washington) For what it’s worth, I’d say so. Then I got Jasper and despite extensive training, he’s a really nice dog, happy life, etc., the best bark dog I’ve ever had. He reacts and yells at the TV, the disturbance he sees outside, his little brother playing, anything. If I lived in an apartment, I probably would have been kicked out.
Connie Sagona Petit. I’ll admit, Dexter (the current dog) is only a year and a half old, and he’s a slower learner than his predecessors. Last night the TV doorbell made the marble disappear, and so did the snow plow this morning. It’s a work in progress, but it’s getting there. Now, when I say “no bark”, he runs to stuff his mouth with his favorite ball so he doesn’t scream!
Timothy pg (Oregon) I taught Chiquis to obey the command “Quiet” with proper training. Lalo learned the silence command by osmosis from Chiquis. Somehow, the silence order was one of the few orders that Coco came up with. The first time I said “shut up” he immediately shut up. For Chiquis, it was loaded with fly balls, but she screamed every time she was in the box. As soon as she was quiet even for a second, I would go and give her a taste. I began to wait a long silence before treating. When I added the word “quiet” to the process, she learned, and eventually no more treatments were needed. Sometimes, much later, she would sit in the window and watch the passers-by with me, “Shut up,” she would murmur in her dog’s voice, “But I want to scream.” Similar to that. She was a very sweet princess.
Glenda Lee (Maine) Lack of training. The top dog barks constantly. And then he screams. He’s not likely to quit at 13, but if he learns from the trip, no dog within a two-mile radius is going to bark every time you scratch his ear!
Christine Hale Vertucci (Illinois) A dog’s neck will be wise. The collar doesn’t beep when it’s on, but it beeps when it’s off. Or, for progressive collars, the dog calculates how many times the collar will bark before the dog reaches the point where it will be punished.
Tom Robinson (Washington) My old neighbors had two dogs that were rescued and not fully trained. When I was in my yard, they never stopped screaming. Cures only stop them when the cures are available, then they’re back to the incessant whining. I tried a couple of cheap hand-repeat bark stoppers and each one made the dog walk away with a nod. Each [the devices] He died a few weeks later. Poor quality.
Annie Zech (Washington) You say, OK, I suddenly startle my dog and hurt him and then expect him to be quiet. It causes incredible pain you Is it quiet? So why…?
Dia Barney Nonaka (Arizona) When attempts to train a dog fail, people often ask what went wrong. What’s wrong with the dog? The tools? The answer is, “What’s wrong?” It is almost always “man”. With these devices, the most common danger is human beings. In general, people do not want to hurt their dog. These devices attempt to suppress noise by reacting to the bark’s unpleasantness. It must be unpleasant to work. However, people don’t want to make their dogs uncomfortable, so they set them to the lowest setting. As annoying as it is, it’s not enough to stop the noise. So the noise continues. As the dog grows, people increase its strength. Now you have someone who has brought the convenience they wanted to get rid of their dog… And A barking dog. People want to work without harming the dog. But it has to hurt them or at least annoy them enough to work.
Nan Ken Arthur (Arizona) Scared of anything about a barking dog before the neck panicked. I had two clients like that. The sound of TV, alarms, and phones make these dogs go flat and someone sees the sound happening. It is better to know why a dog is barking and help them than to hurt them.
Mika Michlevich (Maryland) Dogs bark. This is their limited sound as a species. For humans, a talkative species, we have very little tolerance for any noise. These collars don’t do anything unless it’s very superficial because they don’t address the root cause of the noise. Dogs have unmet needs and wants, in addition to normal, healthy barking. Separation anxiety, boredom with lack of stimulation, excessive stress placed on them, fear, anxiety, using the bathroom, etc. All these needs need to be addressed. On a day-to-day basis, a typical cry is more responsive to teaching a “quiet” cue (keeping quiet, placing the word and rewarding it) or to teaching it to scream at a lower volume (keeping quiet, placing the cue word). For him, and rewarding). No need for collars. They are not constructive.
What are you doing where you are now?
Try to get your money back. If the tool doesn’t work for you, it won’t work. good luck.
Comment on the seller’s ads online, especially if you go through the normal refund request process. (This gives you more credibility with the readers of the comments.)
File a complaint with the state authorities If the seller of the device is in the US
Complain to social media sites that receive ads from the seller.
Do not pass the anti-scald device on to a friend or donate it to a charity shop. Grab it. That alone is worth it.
From an online ad for an anti-aging device: “You deserve peace and quiet.
I had to add another question: “What does yours do?” a dog Do they deserve it?”
Ask yourself.
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