Training with a Barking Collar
I have a young dog that is a German Shepherd who loves to bark at everything that he sees and hears. I thought that maybe it was just because he is a puppy and hoped that he would just grow out of it, but I have learned that is unlikely to happen on its own. I took him to an obedience class where the instructor told me that excessive barking can be fixed with the proper training. He suggested that I try a barking collar as a training tool.
The obedience school trainer suggested one type of barking collar. After my husband and I researched the different types that are available, my husband and I chose one that we felt was most appropriate. Since it was such an unusual feeling, our puppy did not seem to like it very much at first, but he is starting to get the hang of it.
One exercise that we did involved a friend of ours. We asked her to walk in front of our house numerous times over an extended period of time. We knew that if our puppy did not have his barking collar on, he would bark uncontrollably through the window at her. With the collar on, we had her walk in front of the house again. This time he reacted differently when he tried to bark. He still barked a bit, but seemed to know that he was only affected when he was barking. We repeated this exercise multiple times a day for about a week. By the end of the week, he was not longer barking at people walking in front of the house. We were thankful that this training exercise worked so quickly for our puppy.
We applied the same strategy using the barking collar to a few other things that made him bark hoping that it would work as effectively. He wore the collar as we practiced coming in and out of the house, while our children played on the swings and while we watched the television since he liked to bark at the characters on the screen. We happened to be lucky because he seemed to be a quick learner with this type of training. We are thankful that it worked.
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