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61 of 61 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
It works..., November 10, 2007
We bought this collar for our animal shelter rescued American Eskimo who barked ALL THE TIME. By barked all the time, I mean he barked and kept barking for 10 minutes or more. He barked at us, he barked at the other dogs, he barked at the cats, he barked at any noises inside or outside, he barked whenever someone walked in the door, he barked while he played and he barked in his kennel. The worst part was when he would start barking at 4 in the morning and not stop till we let him out at 8. For two months we tried everything we could think of, and everything a certified trainer could think of... with absolutely no luck.
The day I got it I rubbed in against a hard surface and touched the tips. I did that several times (to get it to go up as high as I could). It startles you a lot; it really doesn't hurt, even all the way up. If you do that yourself, remember to take out the battery so that it will reset down to the lowest shock level. It takes a couple of hours to reset itself back down, and taking the battery out and then putting it back in will restart it.
The first day I put it on my dog he barked up to the 3rd or 4th setting before he gave a yelp and stopped barking. It was the kind of yelp he does when he is rough housing with the other dogs; the yelp that says "okay, you win, I give up" NOT "I'm in pain". We used it every evening after work and through the night... for about 2 weeks. Now we might have to put it on him once a week for a couple of hours, just as a reminder. He almost never barks in the house anymore, and when he does it is just one bark and he is done. Periodically throughout the week when he is quiet (like when we walk in the door and he doesn't bark at us) we walk over and give him a treat, to reinforce the good behavior.
I think the product is great. I don't usually like products like this, but there are some dogs that just won't learn any other way. We rescued our dog from the animal shelter and his bad barking habit was already drilled into him... this was all we could do to fix it. Once your dog learns what happens it shouldn't take very long for him to realize that barking is not good... then just reinforce the good behavior when it happens. Hope this helps.
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51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
caveat emptor, December 5, 2005
Innotek tells me that Amazon is not one of their authorized dealers, so they will not honor any warranty. I bought one of their collars and it stopped working after two months. No warranty service if you don't buy from one of their authorized dealers.
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44 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Even more barking than before!, October 4, 2005
I purchased this collar out of sheer desperation. Our dog had alienated us from nearly all of our neighbors with her incessant barking and was showing no sign of stopping. I tried the citronella spray collar and it had worked for a time but my dog figured out that it would eventually run out of juice and she could bark at will.
This collar did not stop her barking from day one. Within a day or two I began to notice that she would start barking, then briefly stop, then she would attack or bark at whatever was near to her. It was as if my dog thought that whatever was close to her was causing the shock rather than the collar. She also apparently made no connection between her barking and the shock. After three weeks of using the collar with no change I began to hear my dog make pained howling noises from time to time after barking. After this she would bark even more at whatever was close to her. After a month, what finally made me give up was the horrible howls my dog would make from time to time. I am not convinced that this is not unduly painful to dogs and I defintiely don't believe it worked for my dog.
My dog is a German Shepherd and has a large neck with loose skin. The electrodes on the collar are about an inch long and 1/3-1/2 inch thick. If your dog does not have a sturdy neck it will probably be painful just to wear the collar. The manufacturer recommends tightening it down to the point where you can only put one finger under the collar. This drives the electrodes into the dog's neck a bit. If your dog is stubborn like mine, they may just not get it and keep on barking. After I gave up on this collar I went back to the citronella collar. I don't know if it is because of the new batteries or the time off but it works like a charm again. I recommend the citronella collar a lot more highly.
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