Biscy, the amazing Dorkie Poo mutt, has stopped barking. No yapping, no middle of the night yelps, no ferocious spazzing whenever a neighbor walks by. For this, I thank the magic citronella bark collar.
Per my vet’s recommendation, I strapped the collar on the Bisc yesterday. I leave it on him only for a few hours–at the times he’s most likely to be barky (evening, mostly). The results are fricking incredible. When he barks, the collar sprays a tiny bit of citronella toward his snout. He stops barking immediately. Just now a guy walked by the house with his dog. Biscy watched him from the front screen door, growled a bit, then meandered over to me from some positive reinforcement (i.e., biscuits).
At first I was concerned that he was a bit depressed by not barking, particularly because the neighbors’ dogs, three of whom are within about 20 feet of us, are still making a regular ruckus. But damn, it’s nice not to jump three feet when our small dog suddenly erupts into full-throated hound dog mode in the house.
Worth every penny!
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Hopefully you’ll be luckier than we were. One of our poodles is a yapper, so we tried one of these things on him. It took him about a week to figure out that if he kept barking the collar eventually ran out of citronella. He also learned quickly that the smell wouldn’t hurt him. It just about ran us out of the house a few times, though. We changed to the electric shock type, but he learned to rotate the collar to the side so the contacts would no longer pick up vibrations from his barking. Did we ever break him? Nope. I still go after him with a spray bottle of water and vinegar sometimes, but he’s either gotten better with age or we’ve learned to tune him out.
I’m pullin’ for ya Bisc, you’re such a good boy.
Yowza, Pubcrawler. Let’s hope Biscy’s not that smart!
Thanks, AD. He’s a great boy!
Where does one get this wonder collar?
Libs, I got the magic collar at PetSmart. And it’s still working–even when he’s not wearing it, he’s controlling his barking. He still growls quite a bit, but that I don’t mind!