Anyone used the barking collars to break your dog from barking excessively?

[Gamom3]

Here is the story before anyone judges me for even thinking about getting one of these.

Our dog that we have had for 9yrs now. We have started leaving her outside, when we leave. She stays outside most of the day..her choice. we let her in, she turns around, stands at the door whining, wanting back out!
We were putting her in a kennel/crate, when we left because she will "go" even though she is housebroken. BUT, now she breaks out of her kennel, so we got another one big enough for her to stand up and turn around, she breaks out of it!
I then put her in the laundry room, in the kennel. That way if she got out she would still be locked up. She has scratched our door up horribly and has scratched off the top layer of linoleum! I can not and will not have her tearing up my house, so we leave her outside..like I said before she prefers to be out there. She will bark at everything and anything. I need to break her of this and was wondering if the barking collars would do it.

[JudoMom]

Yep. We've got 2 American Eskimo dogs. We have 2 bark collars that zap them if they bark. They wear them for a few weeks, then we're able to leave them off for a few weeks to a few months. They work well, but sometimes we do have to shave their neck fur down a bit for them to work.

[Rachel]

I really tried to use these and couldn't do it..........it was just so sad. I think I will try the citronella ones rather than the zappers.......

[Remudamom]

Hurts like $%#& too. Ask me how I know. We use it for car chasing. Only works when she's wearing it.

[OneRoomHomeSchool]

We have a shock collar on our dog because he is in a 2 acre electronic fence area. He loves running 'free'. Anyway we have a remote zapper that also works with the collar and we do use it for incessant barking after a verbal warning. It does work, yes....we have not had to use it for MONTHS. We just warn him, when we've heard enough and he gets the hint. ;)

[mysticamethyst]

I sure would use one or more if I could; my dogs are just to small to wear them, and not sure really what that shock would do to their little bodies. Once my dogs get going it is almost impossible to get them to stop.

[King's Kid]

Have you tried shaking a can or empty water bottle 1/4 filled with pennies (or pebbles)? Very effective with our corgi. Dogs hate the sound for some reason; I learned about it from a breeder. First say, "Quiet!" Then when the dog barks say "quiet" again and give a couple of hard shakes. Repeat if necessary. Hey, it's worth a try and is probably much cheaper than a shock collar!

[Sunny]

No, haven't tried a zapper. I've been tempted to try a Citronella spray collar though. it would be the ONLY one I would accept as not harmful, but effective.

Bark collars, especially for younger dogs, can train the dog to be afraid. They go to bark, and get zapped. Now, they are afraid of that particular senario. They have NO idea that they got zapped just becausee they barked. Our neighbor dog was like that. I noticed it because My trainer said to watch for that type of response.

My breeder said she borrowed a female to mate with her male, and she had a horrible scar around her neck. Turns out it was a zapper that malfunctioned,a dn burned a whole in her neck before the owner got it off.
Zapper for your dog at 9yo would probably not change her attitude as much as just stop the barking. However, because she is outside so much, I would worry about the safety issue. Try the citronella sprayer and see how it works.