| Many dog owners are getting fantastic results using a | | | | months or older. |
| spray bark collar but you need to be aware of how | | | | The only main reason to not use a collar like this is |
| to best use them. | | | | when a dog is suffering from anxiety related barking, |
| Using an anti bark spray collar will normally reduce | | | | as they need actual behaviour modification training |
| your dog's nuisance barking, and without you even | | | | and confidence building to make them feel more |
| having to be there to train your dog in person. | | | | secure and confident. In those cases, any of the |
| Nowadays the technology they build into the anti | | | | anti-bark dog collars should not be used. Get a dog |
| bark spray collars includes a microphone that releases | | | | trainer to help you with advice for how to support |
| a citronella spray when you dog starts barking - all on | | | | your dog through this period of anxiety, as their |
| autopilot for you. | | | | expertise is what is required in cases like that. |
| The citronella spray is harmless to your pet but | | | | In most cases with medium to large sized dogs using |
| works to interrupt your dog's behaviour. The look on | | | | an anti bark spray collar is a simple and humane way |
| your dog's face the first time it gets a spray is classic | | | | to train your dog to stop barking, and you just need |
| and you will find it hard not to laugh when you see it. | | | | to use commonsense in how you use it with your |
| But when your dog has had a couple of sprays it | | | | dog. |
| realizes very quickly that barking results in | | | | When you first get the collar, make sure it is only |
| consequences for the first time in its life. | | | | fitted on the dog when you are there to supervise it |
| The spray works on four out of the five senses; | | | | and make sure that it is operating correctly. |
| dogs hear it, see it, feel it, and smell it. Citronella is a | | | | Occasionally a defective sprayer or over-sensitive |
| unique scent that most pets don't normally get a lot | | | | microphone could cause constant spraying to your |
| of and normally don't like it much. | | | | dog when it is not barking at all, so make sure your |
| At the very least, your dog will now smell a lot | | | | dog is not being sprayed needlessly. |
| better, while at the same time getting trained to | | | | Remove the collar when the dog is normally quiet, |
| stop barking. | | | | for instance if it sleeps inside at night and doesn't |
| Why is a Citronella Dog Collar Better To Use? | | | | bark, then there is no need to leave the collar on. |
| There are other barking dog collar types you can use | | | | Sometimes other noises or a sensitive microphone on |
| so here's why I think these are best. | | | | the collar can result in wasted citronella when the dog |
| You may have been considering an electric shock | | | | was not barking, so remove the collar for the hours |
| collar or an ultra-sonic collar to try training your dog | | | | of the day or night when it is not essential for the |
| to not bark, using pain as a deterrent. | | | | training. Remember to turn OFF the spray mechanism |
| But you are likely to discover that this kind of pain | | | | to preserve the battery life when you remove the |
| therapy is less effective than spray and the pain of | | | | collar, otherwise you will be replacing batteries |
| shock treatments may just make your dog anxious | | | | unnecessarily. |
| and aggressive, and can in fact make the problem | | | | Most users of these anti barking collars highly |
| behaviour even worse as a result. | | | | recommend them, especially compared to electric |
| But a citronella dog collar simply sprays the neck to | | | | shock collars that use pain aversion therapy as a |
| release an unfamiliar scent, that interrupts the dogs | | | | training too. If you and your dog find the citronella |
| pattern of behaviour and distracts them long enough | | | | too extreme you can even get scent free spray |
| to break their old patterns. | | | | collars to help your dog stop barking. |
| It is a great remote-control reinforcement when you | | | | It certainly is a big improvement on the bucket of |
| are also there to verbally reprimand them, so that | | | | water by the back door that I used to train my first |
| they soon learn to associate the smell with your | | | | dog with 35 years ago! Most of the time we both |
| verbal commands and you won't need to be there to | | | | ended up soaked and miserable, and all that old |
| stop barking. But it also helps to reinforce your verbal | | | | fashioned way of training dogs to stop barking really |
| commands, as the dog will remember the 'unpleasant' | | | | achieved was to make my dog hate water and |
| smell of citronella when you need to tell it to stop | | | | make giving him a bath nearly impossible. I really wish |
| barking, long after it has stopped wearing the collar. | | | | this training system had been around back then as I |
| The dog training citronella anti bark spray collar can | | | | know we would both have been much happier using |
| also be used with any breed of dog, as long as it | | | | this method. |
| weighs 6 pounds (3 kilos) or more and is aged six | | | | |