Anti-bark dog collar experiance

Jeff B

Jeff B

Thanos was right
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Lincolnton N.C.
The neighbors have been complaining that my dog had been barking non-stop. I hate the electric zapping bark collars, so I purchased a humane citronella collar. When a dog barks, it shoots a blast of citronella under their nose and apparently, they don't like it.
This morning I was getting the collar ready and filled it with the citronella liquid. And that's where my morning should have ended. But no, it's me, and I begin to become curious as to “how” the collars actually work.
So, I'm standing by my back door "barking" at my dog's collar. Nothing happens. I make sure it's turned on, check the fill level, and go through the "getting started" check list one more time. Again, I bark. Nothing happens. Now I'm not quite sure, why I had this next thought, but I did...I put the collar on. I seriously extended the band and fit the growl box against my throat and barked. Apparently, the collar only works if it feels vibrations, because I immediately received a blast of citronella to the face.
I began coughing, which only caused the collar to continue squirting bug spray over and over into my nasal cavity. I'm now on my hands and knees in my back yard, trying to breathe, and to make matters worse, the damn dog is barking. So, between coughing and yelling at her to shut up, I've emptied over a dozen blasts of citronella to my face. During all of this ruckus, I'm trying to undo the clasp of the collar, which has somehow managed to weld shut during this whole fiasco.
I finally get the collar off and threw, yes, I threw that inhumane thing across the yard, and lay in the grass sucking in the cool morning air. In the middle of thinking this is probably the dumbest thing I've done in a while, I hear laughter. MY NEIGHBOUR SAW THE WHOLE THING! He was laughing so hard he couldn't breathe. Between gasps, he tells me, "I was gonna come help, but every time I started to climb over the fence, you'd set it off again and then I would start laughing and couldn't make it." So now, not only are my eyes red, but my face and ears are too. After checking to make sure I was ok, we parted ways and I went in to shower so I wouldn't smell like ode de' Tiki Torch.
Lesson learned: next time (yes, there will always be a next time with me) make sure that:
1. Don't fill the collar before trying to set it off.
2. Remember your neighbor is not a good source of help in a comedy crisis situation.
On the plus side, I won't have a mosquito problem for a few days!



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Jeff B said:
The neighbors have been complaining that my dog had been barking non-stop. I hate the electric zapping bark collars, so I purchased a humane citronella collar. When a dog barks, it shoots a blast of citronella under their nose and apparently, they don't like it.
This morning I was getting the collar ready and filled it with the citronella liquid. And that's where my morning should have ended. But no, it's me, and I begin to become curious as to “how” the collars actually work.
So, I'm standing by my back door "barking" at my dog's collar. Nothing happens. I make sure it's turned on, check the fill level, and go through the "getting started" check list one more time. Again, I bark. Nothing happens. Now I'm not quite sure, why I had this next thought, but I did...I put the collar on. I seriously extended the band and fit the growl box against my throat and barked. Apparently, the collar only works if it feels vibrations, because I immediately received a blast of citronella to the face.
I began coughing, which only caused the collar to continue squirting bug spray over and over into my nasal cavity. I'm now on my hands and knees in my back yard, trying to breathe, and to make matters worse, the damn dog is barking. So, between coughing and yelling at her to shut up, I've emptied over a dozen blasts of citronella to my face. During all of this ruckus, I'm trying to undo the clasp of the collar, which has somehow managed to weld shut during this whole fiasco.
I finally get the collar off and threw, yes, I threw that inhumane thing across the yard, and lay in the grass sucking in the cool morning air. In the middle of thinking this is probably the dumbest thing I've done in a while, I hear laughter. MY NEIGHBOUR SAW THE WHOLE THING! He was laughing so hard he couldn't breathe. Between gasps, he tells me, "I was gonna come help, but every time I started to climb over the fence, you'd set it off again and then I would start laughing and couldn't make it." So now, not only are my eyes red, but my face and ears are too. After checking to make sure I was ok, we parted ways and I went in to shower so I wouldn't smell like ode de' Tiki Torch.
Lesson learned: next time (yes, there will always be a next time with me) make sure that:
1. Don't fill the collar before trying to set it off.
2. Remember your neighbor is not a good source of help in a comedy crisis situation.
On the plus side, I won't have a mosquito problem for a few days!



~stolen
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Funny, but I know that's not a true story. None of your neighbors would ever consider doing anything to help you!
 
I actually bought one of the trainings collars for my old dog the was supposed to give them a "mild shock" when he didnt do as instructed. I figured with his thick undercoat, he would barely feel anything from it.

Considering I had no idea if it would actually hurt him, or just feel uncomfortable, I strapped it on my neck and pushed the button.

I cussed the guy at lowes for over an hour for selling something that was supposed to be just unpleasant for a dog.

The shock it gave me dropped me to my knees and made me piss myself....

I of course would never subject my dog to such a thing. My brother, yes..........
 
junkxj said:
Considering I had no idea if it would actually hurt him, or just feel uncomfortable, I strapped it on my neck and pushed the button.

I cussed the guy at lowes for over an hour for selling something that was supposed to be just unpleasant for a dog.

The shock it gave me dropped me to my knees and made me piss myself....

I of course would never subject my dog to such a thing. My brother, yes..........
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so what you're saying is that it would be perfect for a D/S relationship with a sub hat needs some extra training?
 
GotWood said:
Funny, but I know that's not a true story. None of your neighbors would ever consider doing anything to help you!
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I would not ask them..
 
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its a auto correct on my phone thing. I tried to fix the title, could not.
 
Thanks fixing the title.
 
junkxj said:
I of course would never subject my dog to such a thing. My brother, yes..........
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My brother has actually done this...not just once, but three times!
1) High school friend had dachshunds with the electric fence collars, little bro grabbed the collar and moved it across the boundary & got lit up. He dropped it & went to pick it up but got lit up again, kicked it towards the house & walked off cussing.
2) Parent's neighbors had a pointer or brittany (can't remember) that constantly barked, so he got an electric anti-bark collar and my brother wanted to try it out. We all warned him not too, but he didn't get the lesson the first time. Held it up to his throat, barked & got zapped. Then he yelped which zapped him again. I was on the ground laughing at that one!
3) He's got a chocolate lab that he trained to retrieve. A co-worker recommended getting a remote shock collar to enforce any commands or break bad habits while hunting. Well, he held it to his neck to 'test it out' & hit the button. He flung that thing across the yard screaming. When he puts in on his dog, he starts on the lowest setting & works his way up to when the dog seems to notice.
 
At least, when the neighbor complains about the barking, you can remind him you tried and it's the thought that counts... Since he thought about helping you, too.
 
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