In the case of the woman I mentioned, her husband was concerned about the shock collar. Apparently he put it on his arm and it sent him "halfway across the room".

With either collar the point is that the dog will be conditioned to stop barking, and as in the case above, no longer need the collar. I don't know if the 'dosage' can be adjusted up or down.

Another case mentioned in the discussion is a family who leaves their little dog in the house from the time they leave in the morning til about noon. This little thing barks and barks and barks. Now there are probably a couple of things the family can do - but a collar of some type would seem to be necessary. Crate training would be another solution perhaps.

Again the best thing about either collar is that at some point they won't be needed.


I also heard about an aerosol can that makes a weird sound when used and interrupts the dog barking. Apparently this works well. In the case of the dog alone mentioned above, that wouldn't work so well.