There are lots of dog owners who disaprove the use of anti bark collars, considering them to be some inhumane if not even torture devices, but the very same people are subjecting their pets to extremely emotional upset, and even cruelty on some occasions. Some dogs rarely bark, but there are also those who rarely stop barking, and unless you live in the middle of nowhere, your neighbors are going to complain, and of course they’ll have every right to. Let’s face it; a dog that barks incessantly is enough to drive anyone up the wall. Excessive barking, especially at inappropriate times will get you into trouble not only with your neighbours, but also with the law. The legislation of most countries stipulates that the owner can be forced to get rid of his dog if this is causing disturbances continuously.

After all those years you have been together with your dog, it will be a significant emotional disturbance to be forced to give him or her to another owner. To make matters worse, the new owners will quite likely get rid of the dog as well once they discover how much disturbance it causes. Eventually the barking loving dog will find itself in an animal shelter, and most probably on the receiving end of a lethal injection. How anyone can possibly believe that this type of treatment is more humane than a negligible static shock is beyond belief.

There were cases when a dog has been tortured using a shock collar, and scarie movies were made about the subject, and reports have been written on how cruel the use of these collars is. Though those who have written such scenarios and reports claim to be the most lovings of the dog lovers, they never took the time to actually research about the anti bark collars. Some of these people even associate the use of the anti bark collars with the way criminals are prepared for the electric chair. Can you believe that some of these reporters are so misinformed so that they claim to have seen burn marks on these dogs’ necks? Is the small AA batterie able to produce a skin burn?

The electronic Anti Bark Collars should better be called “tingle” collars than this awfully looking shock collars. Few people have not experienced the static energy effect, and we cannot describe the tiny electric shock produced when we touch something metallic as beeing painful. Yes it gives you a fright, but it’s by no means painful, and it can certainly do you no harm.

There are thousands of dogs alive today just thanks to these collars. Practically everyone who has used them consider them to be a real blessing, in that problematic barking almost always stops within just a few days of the collar being put on a dog. Before the electric shock, most of the Anti Bark Collars issue a warning beep. If the dog then goes ahead and starts bark, a very mild shock is given, and if the dog continues to bark, the intensity of the shock increases. The static shock we know is barely overpassed by the maximum intensity level of the collar shock. After all, there are only two tiny batteries delivering the charge in the first place.

The right nickname of these electronic Anti Bark Collars should be in fact “tingle” collars. The intensity of the electric shock is adjustable. Most Anti Bark Collars firstly issue a warning beep.