My 10 month old lab has just started barking all the time in the back yard. My question is... bark collars good or bad ? Something has to give!(He never comes in so its not a let me back in thing)

Cabela's has their bark collar on sale right now for $30...I am outfitting all 3 of our dogs with them I hate a barking dog and ours has a dog door and I think sometimes just goes outside to bark. Aggravating but I should be much happier by the end of this week...the dogs, well not so much

The bark collar is the way to go

Thanks for the info.I will have one tonight

Will the collar work on whining? My female GSP will sit at the back door and whine when it gets close to feeding time. It drives me up the wall.

... Don't use a shock collar on a dog that whines. That's jsut mean.

I use a spray bottle filled with water if mine bark or jump on the back door. They have for the most part stopped doing it.

I have found the tectronics bark limiter is the best for this problem. You can set the intensity level depending on how hard headed ur animal is. It will also count how many times they barked for u can increase or decrease the stimulation based off ur dogs learning curve.
I have had ther cabellas brand and replaced them with the bark limiter.
As far as a whineing dog it will do u no good. A buddys lab learned he could whine with his on so he just started whining.
My problem is that my dogs are now collar smart. Barking ill mannered POS's with the collers off but when I put the collars on they are on there best manners.

May try putting it on them with it turned off for a while first, and then randomly turn it on, for the reason Tgutie said. Same reasoning with training shock collars...Just a thought

I just go outside and politely ask my GSP to STFU - apparently she understands me b/c I don't have to tell her twice. But in your case the bark collar would be a good investment, we used one on my sisters 150lb mutt and he stopped barking

My dog figured out how to bark just right so the collar doesn't get him. Not a full out bark, just a yip. Now he sounds like a coyote yipping away.

I do notice with him, he needs a little more juice on the ecollar than the dogs that don't wear a bark collar for his cues.

My lab isn't a big barker.....at home. BUT when he gets in the blind he gets excited every time any bird flies by and he whines or barks. I thought about getting a bark collar. I was wondering if I shouldn't get an e-collar instead. I have never used an e-collar before as this is my first dog that wasn't just a pet. Would a bark collar be easier??

I wouldn't use a bark collar for that quack...I would use an e-collar but use and introduce in the proper manner. There are a lot of good trainers out there with videos regarding collar conditioning.

Every once in a while mine will get excited in the same way and I just have to say "quiet" and if I have to tell her a few times. I will nick quiet nick and that normally takes care of it. You have to stay on top of it or they will be a whining mess in the blind and I personally can't stand sitting there listening to a whining dog.

Evan Graham has some good information on this subject too...you might contact him.

The bark collar won't work in this situation. What are you going to do when you need to send her on the retrieve? Stop and take the bark collar off?? She can't swim with it...

Teach her "bark, no bark" or the Quiet command and enforce it.

Angie

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I like the hell out of that. That's what I've always done.

Ours came in Friday...put them on the 3 dogs and sent them on their way. Well about an hour later I hear "BARK...YIPE!" that little son of a gun hasn't barked since if the collar is on. It LIT him up.

Next morning I am in bed sleeping and momma is up doing something and I hear the lab and the same thing. She won't bark anymore with it on.

I had to send one of them back because 2 of them were for cockers and one is real soft and the other is hardheaded. The little one is under 20lbs and she acts like you beat her as soon as you put a collar on her and she has only had a cheap Innovek home collar on and never used the shock only the beep.

So worked great for 2 of them but I don't think they ever got past level 1 and I can't imagine what level 7 would do for them. In my opinion they are a little hot but they work and for those two it is perfect.

There is a post in OT on using PetSafe Ultrasonic Outdoor Bark Control. Most of the people said it work and some were using it to stop their neighbors dogs from barking.
I read some mixed reviews on a different website.
Stated that it activates for any loud sound not just barking.

You can actually TRAIN the dog to be quite but that would be too much work huh? Get a bark collar like most have mentioned.

sounds like me with a hangover...

Bark collars do not work on a whinning dog.It must bark for it to work.

I have a Draht that is bad about whining and the tritronics bark limiter has worked to make him stop. Maybe others don't but TT does.

I have a RedBone Coon Hound that is notorious about whining I was thinking of training her to be a bird dog i just dont know how well she would do and the other thing she is a real loud mouth I take her out. I love the sounds of a coon hound bellowing away but i dont know if other hunters would appreciate the noise. Any recomendations?