Talk:PBC News:Renouncing the Spirit of Surrenderpendence
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Review by J. Chastang for Rating: We have 3 dogs (2 pugs and a pitbull mix) that bark nosotnp while the house next door is being shown to prospective tenants/buyers. Unfortunately the house is being shown while we are at work and not home to stop the barking. I was approached by a potential neighbor who demanded our dogs de-barked as she wouldn't buy the house with all that racket. We called the HOA, and while there weren't any official complaints we knew we had only a short time to correct it before one was made. Behavior training worked great, or so we thought, the dogs would not bark at all when we were home. Then we got a letter from the HOA- dogs bark constantly when house is being shown and you are not home. Great- now what do we do? We only had 30 days to stop the barking until we got fined. As a last resort we looked into static shock collars. After reading all the reviews on Amazon and other petstore sites I decided on the Petsafe collars. I got the collars and had the dogs wear them over the weekend so that we were home to supervise. I followed the directions exactly and put the collars on tight. Our pug Buster shook his head and it buzzed and shocked him. He scratched the collar weaved part- not the box- and it shocked him. Hubby came downstairs, tightened the collar even more assuming the collar was sliding as Buster scratched and shook his head. As there were no more mishaps I thought the collars were working correctly. But then again the dogs didn't bark once when we were home as they were trained The next day we leave for work and feeling uneasy I put the collars on the dogs. I was hoping for no mishaps as we wouldn't be home to take the collars off if something went wrong. Hubby got home first, went into the backyard to check on the dogs and Buster was standing in the dogrun shivering getting shocked repeatedly nosotnp. The other dog's collars were beeping and buzzing as well. Were any of the dogs barking or whining? NO!!! They weren't making a sound! He took off all the collars right away and when I got home we tested the sensitivity by gently tapping the collars on the kitchen counter. Each collar buzzed and shocked no matter how softly we tapped the counter. The collars would go off if we tapped one next to it! That is WAY too sensitive for our liking, and the fact that the dogs were getting shocked for merely breathing and NOT barking is just cruel. Amazon refunded us our money in full (including all shipping charges) as they were all defective. I would never buy these again and would never leave dogs alone with this collar on.
