Anti Bark Collar Guide

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Woodstock

The no bark collar is a great gadget for getting your cute but yipping pug to stop barking.

So I put the PetSafe anti bark collar on Woodstock as I had said in the previous article .  He was so happy.  I sort of felt bad at first.  He thought, and still does I might add, that it was his usual dog collar that I put on him to go for a walk.  He was excited.

As it turned out a kid got off the school bus not three minutes later.  His attention was immediately diverted.  He started barking at the kid walking home.  The anti bark collar is set to give three little beeps.  Its almost like a warning.  Note:  dogs get smart using this.  The next no bark collar I get I want to be able to change the settings because believe it or not dogs adjust by only barking two times before getting shocked. Woodstock got buzzed.  And he got buzzed good.  He let out a yelp.  I couldn’t help but laugh.  He was perplexed.  “How could this be happening,” he thought.

He got shocked all day.  But he learned real fast.  After several hours and someone passed you could see him wanting to bark but knowing the consequences and holding back.  The dog collar had worked better than expected.  It took one day.  Because Pugs have very short hair so the anti bark gadget works great on them.  They really feel the effect and learn quick.

Remember though you are supposed to take the thing off at night.  The problem with me is that I forget to put it back on and all it takes without consistent use is several days and the dogs are barking again.

I got my first anti bark dog collar several months ago.  Its actually what gave me the idea to start this blog.  After that I got to thinking, being the huge blogger that I am, “maybe I should start a blog about this.”

I love my dogs.  I have the cutest little pug you have ever seen and a lasso who is way past his prime of being cute.  I live on a busy street.  People jog by all the time, cars pass by every minutes, just tons of activity.  So what does that mean???  It means tons of barking.  Its non stop.  One person jogs by….bark.  Kids get off the school bus…bark.  The mailman…bark.  A person rings the doorbell…double and triple bark.  Its annoying.

So I went to PETCO.  They just built a PETCO store in Anchorage, not too far from where I live, and they have everything, or supposedly.  I take my pug, Woodstock, in with me, and start to look for the anti bark collars.  Couldn’t find them anywhere.  I finally find someone and they take me to the front where a glass case is (much like the case where stores keep cigarettes).

They had 3-4 different styles.  I picked the the Petsafe one.  I got two.

One thing to note about PETCO.  Before I went I looked on the internet for anti bark collars.  I searched on PETCO and found the one I was looking for.  Their website said it was $90.00.  But when I went to PETCO the sticker said $130.00.  They tried to pull a fast one.  One of the managers said it was due to shipping.  Thats a bunch of crap.  I told them I wanted that collar but was not going to pay $130.00.  Someone else in town, a small time store, was selling no bark collars for $99.99.  The only reason I went to PETCO was because of their selection and good price online.  It said that the prices would be the same in the store.  So to make a long story short I negotiated the price of the dog collar down to $85.00.  They still made money, trust me, and I got the collar for under what I had planned.

I will talk about this more another time but the anti bark collars do not work well with all dogs.  For my pug it worked great.  He got buzzed several times and figured it out quickly that his barking days were over.  I wish I could have said the same about the lasso.  His hair was thicker and his bark never triggered the shocking mechanism.  So for a long time I had one dog who didn’t bark and one who did.  Not the situation I was looking for.